Luxury in Space

PRESS RELEASE

January 1, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
contact: Dan Bloom (danbloom@gmail.com)

Model "Polar City" for possible survivors of global warming in distant
future set to be built in Norway in 2012; first international
volunteer residents will move in in 2015.

In the event of catastrophic global warming events in the far distant
future, humankind might have to find refuge in a group of polar cities
lying within the Arctic Circle in such countries as Canada, Norway,
Finland, Russia Greenland, Iceland, Sweden and the USA (Alaska). Under
such circumstances, the founders of the Polar Cities Research
Institute, led by visionary futurist Dan Bloom, 59, have announced
that they will build a model polar city in Longyearbyen, Norway, with
construction set to begin in 2012 and "volunteer testing occupancy" in
2015.

The Model Polar City Project was set up in January 2008 by various
architects, civil engineers, industrial engineers, urban planners and
scientists from around the world. The founders have already made
initial contact with British, American, Japanese and UAE private
investors interested in investing in the project.

The first model Polar City will be built in Longyearbyen, Norway and
will be ready for its first volunteer residents in 2015. Construction
is scheduled to begin in 2012, according to project engineers.

It may sound a little Dr. Evil, or just plain far-fetched, but as of
now, the first occupancy of a model Polar City is a go for 2015.
Details surrounding acutal living conditions and necessities are still
being ironed out, according to Bloom, who has been promoting polar
cities as a possible adaptation strategy for global warming. He
insists that he is not a doomsayer or a gloom-and-doom survivalist,
but rather "an eternal optimist who cares about the future of
humankind".

Bloom says the model polar city will be a scaled-down version and will
test residents' willingness to live in such an environment in the
future.

Lest you think Bloom is just a lone wacko day dreamer, he has company.
He claims to be backed by an unnamed US firm which firmly believes
this would be a step in the right direction. Bloom says he is also in
talks with other financiers from Japan, Britain, Norway and the United
Arab Emirates.

The 2012 configuration will be suitable to house 100 volunteer
residents. Bloom says that the system is designed for modularity and
expansion "based on the natural growth of a grapevine."

Bloom's current concept artwork depicts blueprints of what a polar
city might look like when completed: http://pcillu101.blogspot.com.

Bloom told Reuters that while he believes there are many people on
Earth who will be curious to know more about polar cities, and that
the time is good now to test a model polar city in public.

Bloom says residents will also take part in scientific experiments,
but without elaborating on this part of the residency.

For more information, contact Bloom at: reporter.bloom@gmail.com

LINK
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40663
LINK:
http://pcillu101.blogspot.com