6 Responses to “psyttaleia island”

1. psyttaleia island – mammoth // building nothing out of something « shareitorstopit says:

   October 2, 2011 at 8:24 am

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2. James says:

   October 3, 2011 at 1:48 pm

   cf Thilafushi in the Maldives:
   http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/jan/03/maldives-waste-turns-paradise-into-dump#/?picture=340126292&index=2
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thilafushi

   • rholmes says:

     October 3, 2011 at 2:47 pm

     Yes — definitely. Thilafushi is particularly interesting when you pair it with Nauru (which Peter Nunns reminded me of recently; it also appears in the Buttology series on Pruned I mentioned), as both are tropical island paradises ruined by waste ecologies, but in opposite ways: Thilafushi has suffered from the importation of waste — and consequently is growing — while Nauru has suffered from the extraction of waste (bird shit) — and consequently is shrinking, physically and economically.

3. Stephen says:

   October 4, 2011 at 11:24 am

   Are there many other islands which are devoted to a single infrastructural purpose? It’s interesting to think that infrastructural islands might be disproportionally focused on waste ecologies, their physical isolation making them perfectly suited for tasks societies are particularly NIMBY-ish about.

4. namhenderson says:

   October 4, 2011 at 2:39 pm

   To your point Stephen I assume you all know already have come across Pulua Semakau, another infrastructural island a few kilometers offshore from Singapore. Originally a single-use infrastructure, their landfill, but now also an “eco-park”. Interesting because of the way it suggests a possible blending of hard and soft ecologies.

   Via NYT
   http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/science/16landfill.html?

   • Stephen says:

     October 4, 2011 at 8:58 pm

     Actually, I hadn’t… thanks for the link.