01 September 2006

Too bad we don't need anything like that here in the U.S. ... wait... um...

These homes are built for climate change
Floods? No problem, they just float above the current

The 700-square-foot structures are on the “wrong” side of a dike in a beautiful flood plain of one of the country’s main waterways, the Maas River, overlooking lush marshland and a harbor.
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For more than 1,000 years the Dutch have been holding back the sea, and even reclaiming it. Landfills and windmill-driven pumps have created vast fields, called polders, for new cities, pastures and cropland. If it weren’t for its system of dikes and canals, as much as half of the Netherlands could be submerged.

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Hmm... now how could we use these brilliant ideas from a country that has been dealing with this for ... well, 1,000 years!?? If we didn't piss off Europe so much, maybe we could get some consultants and designers to help with the New Orleans area.

Everybody thank your president and republican politician leadership folks....

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