Man (Re)Builds Mexican Island Paradise on 250,000 Recycled Floating Bottles | Ecoble
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If you can’t afford to buy your own tropical island paradise, why not build your own? That is exactly what Richie Sowa did back in 1998, from over a quarter-million plastic bottles. His Spiral Island, destroyed years later by a hurricane, sported a two-story house, solar oven, self-composting toilet and multiple beaches. Better yet, he has started building another one! His ultimate goal? To build the island bigger and bigger and finally float out to sea, traveling the world from the comfort of his own private paradise.
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But he rebuilt it...
Richie Sowa's Spiral Island Social Network - Connecting Spiral Islanders from around the Globe
According to this link there is about to be a Discovery channel program about it but release date is vague.
I really can't imagine this being seaworthy for any amount of time to withstand open ocean, but I'm impressed by the ingenuity it takes to make your own beach front property. If he can stick with lagoons he should be fine.
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