A few days ago I posted an article noting that the island market is heating up and tons of properties are coming up for sale. Parrot Cay in the Turks and Caicos is currently offering an expansive island parcel for sale with over three acres of beach front. The excellent building lot is situated among the islands most beautiful villas. Located on the preferred North/West shore of Parrot Cay with 435 feet of powdery beach front and turquoise waters, the island is competitively priced at $6,900,000. This may seem like a lot of a piece of an island, but the important thing to consider is that Parrot Cay is one of the most luxurious and exclusive islands in the world. For more information visit Private Islands Online.

Parrot Cay is part of the world renowned Como Shambhala Resort. The island features a boutique hotel on one end and private residential villas owned by the some of the world’s most famous celebrities and designers.

Man made islands are just for business and pleasure, they can serve a wide variety of functions including giving you a work out and purifying the water.

A new man made island design allows eco-conscious exercisers to synch your workout with a little river detox, then rehydrate with a cup of the fresh water you just filtered. This people-powered water purification island is designed by Jakub Szczesny as part of the synchronicity architecture and art festival in Warsaw, Poland. The premise of the poject is that it hooks up basic exercise machines to kinetically pump polluted water through four filters into overhead tanks that spill into a large drinking fountain at the end of the cycle.

This floating platform located on the Vistula River aims to empower citizens toward environmental clean-up, and apparently would work on any body of water with enough local bodies willing to pedal for their potables!

Source: Inhabitat