{"id":13559,"date":"2010-03-31T05:52:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T05:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/floating-islands-in-the-maldives\/"},"modified":"2010-03-31T05:52:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T05:52:35","slug":"floating-islands-in-the-maldives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/floating-islands-in-the-maldives.php","title":{"rendered":"Floating Islands in the Maldives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2588\" href=\"http:\/\/www.privateislandsblog.com\/2010\/03\/31\/floating-islands-in-the-maldives\/koen-olthuis-maldives-island5\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2588\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5244e_koen-olthuis-maldives-island5-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"Floating Island in Maldives\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Floating Island in Maldives<\/p><\/div><p>A low lying island nation, the Maldives is at the front line in the fight against global warming. Already facing damage from rising sea levels, the Maldives is facing a grim future if action is not taken immediately.<\/p><p>Refusing to go gently into the good night, Maldives is fighting back with plans to build a series of man-made artificial islands.&nbsp; Maldives government and Dutch&nbsp;Docklands\/Dutch&nbsp;Watervalley&nbsp;recently signed an agreement to develop several floating facilities for the islands, including a convention center and golf courses.<\/p><p>Designed by architect&nbsp;Koen Olthuis or Waterstudio.NL,&nbsp;the renderings for the amphibious mini-cities appear depict star-shaped, tiered islands with indoor spaces hidden under lush green-roof terraces, complete with interior pools and beaches. While exact design details of these new floating islands are still unavailable, Dutch Docklands does have a history of creating water developments using methods and procedures that reduce impact on underwater life and minimize changes to coastal morphology.<\/p><p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2589\" href=\"http:\/\/www.privateislandsblog.com\/2010\/03\/31\/floating-islands-in-the-maldives\/koen-olthuis-maldives-island\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2589\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5244e_koen-olthuis-maldives-island-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"koen-olthuis-maldives-island\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floating Island in MaldivesA low lying island nation, the Maldives is at the front line in the fight against global warming. Already facing damage from rising sea levels, the Maldives is facing a grim future if action is not taken &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/floating-islands-in-the-maldives.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islands"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}