I feel totally the same way. There was a girl who came up to me the other day in the street, sort of - bloomed out of the pavement in front of me, like she’d apparated, and she must’ve been early 20s, and she said to me, ‘You are my childhood.’ Can you - I know! That’s about the nicest thing anybody’s ever said to me.Oprah, Interview with JK Rowling in ScotlandI honestly teared up at how shocked and happy she was while she was saying this. <3
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“Recycled Island” Turns Ocean Plastic into a Paradise
Ever dreamed of living on a giant island of plastic? Well, with all the plastic that floats around in the ocean as a toxic soup threatening all manner of marine life, one architecture firm has a bold vision to create an eco-paradise called “Recycled Island” in the Pacific Ocean with sustainability at its core. It’s a bold plan, but not only would the project help clean the oceans, the firm claims, it might just be a perfect home for climate refugees—and a way to turn those toxic patches of ocean plastic into an island that may do the planet some good.
The idea for the massive Recycled Island was developed by WHIM architecture as a way to clean the oceans and create a new floating habitat dedicated to sustainable living, complete with beaches, farms, and buildings. Ideally placed in the Pacific, between San Francisco and Hawaii, the island would be some 4 thousand square miles of plastic ‘land’ upon which plastic communities would be built.
According the project’s plan, the plastics used to build the island will come from the giant North Pacific Gyre. Once collected and cleaned, the material could then be reformed into floating platforms of recycled plastic. “This will clean our Oceans intensely and it will change the character of the plastic waste from garbage to building material,” says WHIM. “The gathering of the plastic waste will become a lot more attractive.”
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And I MISS HER!! THIS pix is truly scrumtrulescent.
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