¹ Where will the folks inhabit
When the world is full of them?
When the mountains and the valleys
Are used up to their end?

² Need more land to live on?
3/5 of this planet’s available free
It’s just a little wet
So you need to remodel it at sea

³ Some folks have already done it
To a little bit extent— So
Let’s make a demonstration, show the world
The things we could invent

⁴ The world needs green technology
To help it to sustain
A comfortable and happy home
Where we can all remain

B. Improve technology

⁵ We can improve technology
And adapt it to our site
And make it fun and profitable
‘cause with a chance we might

⁶ Succeed in showing folks
Just how we enterprise
We test out new ideas
Inventing things for Paradise

⁷ Some will work, and some will not
That’s how research goes on
But if you never start
Your dreams are all but gone

C. Demonstration using recycled and natural materials

⁸ With what shall we build it
Our floating home at sea?
With leftovers from what man has made
Left from society

⁹ Plus natural things we haven’t bought
We want to make it cheap
Without reducing independence
Good value we can reap

¹⁰ We don’t need things ostentatious
Just to make the merchants glad
It’s better that we count the cost
So more folks we can add

¹¹ However, in the beginning
We do need certain cash
To cover our expenses
As we collect the trash

¹² Then once things get to rolling
We’ll make our work well known
By producing TV programs
That explain what we have grown

D. Testing platform for new green ideas

¹³ Since we test the new stuff
There to make our floating home
So others can apply it
In a floatation of their own

E. Make our island a Green Educational Center as an example of the practical application of green floating technology for instructing visitors.

¹⁴ When it’s fully underway
The folks around the world
Can come as eco-tourists
To learn what we have unfurled

F. Recycled bottles provide floating foundation

¹⁵ The first thing that we will collect
Plastic bottles that are sold
Because they last forever
At least that’s what we’re told

¹⁶ If you keep them from the sunlight
UV rays won’t deteriorate
So underneath the water
They won’t disintegrate

¹⁷ They make a safe foundation
‘cause if some should spring a leak
The others take right over
So the bottom they don’t seek

G. Natural-fiber-reinforced thin-shell-concrete makes
rot-proof components

¹⁸ Now some have used old plywood
And bamboo that seems fine
But so do termites love that stuff
So they munch it all the time

¹⁹ It’s better to use concrete
‘cause it don’t taste so good
It makes our work more permanent
For showing as we should

H. Geodesic dome shelter for strength

²⁰ Our floating home should be
Well engineered from stem to stern
Even though it floats alright
It’s structure should confirm

²¹ Our desire is to make it work
As strong as it can be
With a geodesic structure
Which performs well naturally

I. Wind, wave and solar powered electric generation

²² A modern home needs power
To run those things we buy
From cell phones to computers
Without a battery supply

²³ We use the natural energy
To make our gadgets run
So our future loving customers
Won’t imagine they’re undone

²⁴ We have for us a large array
Of ways to make things go
From windmills and wave power
To solar, don’t you know

²⁵ So our island will have plenty
To show around the world
As examples to the masses
Who'll love what we’ve unfurled

²⁶ Besides it always looks real good
For windmills they would see
On the Discovery Channel
Which is where we hope to be

J. Rain water collection

²⁷ The dome is large, so it can catch
Rainwater we will store
To water all our flowers
And the fruitage we adore

K. Column Still for fresh potable water

²⁸ But since we’re in the ocean
With salt water all around
We need some distillation
At room temperature we’ve found

²⁹ Already folks are using it
In common industrial ways
So we can imitate its use
To use the free sun’s rays

L. Sustainable self-sufficiency

³⁰ The best thing we could build up— a
Self-sustaining floating craft
To prove we’re not so stupid
With evidence we’re not daft!

M. Global Warming?

³¹ What if your home gets flooded
By the rising of the sea
Will you be prepared to face it
Or from it will you flee?

³² There are lots of folks, right now
Who live right on their boats
But usually they can’t grow their food,
Or even walk upon its floats

³³ To be prepared you start right now
But where can you really learn?
Without a dedicated Center
To teach and help discern?

³⁴ If we have global warming
The rich may pay the price
But much of what’s now flatland
For no one will suffice

³⁵ It will not grow the food we need
Or keep us dry and nice
We really need a place to live
That’s like a paradise

³⁶ But ‘till then, we have to work
To make a place to stay
That also grows our food for us
We can enjoy each day

N. Beautiful for educational TV programs and
as a eco-tourist attraction and practical training center

³⁷ Of course it must be beautiful
So it will please the TV panel
As we hope to make it shown
On the Discovery Channel

³⁸ Then hopefully the folks will come
To learn just how they do
Make their own green islands
Just like me and you

³⁹ Will it attract a great big crowd?
We sure do hope it will
Focus attention on the needs of man
While they increase their skill

⁴⁰ Where better should they travel?
For, where else can they learn?
First hand how things do operate
There’s nowhere else to turn

⁴¹ This island’s not commercial
We’re not planning it to sell
A bunch of expensive hardware
Let the others do that well

⁴² Instead we teach the people
To build things at their home
To make things really comfortable
So they won’t have to roam

O. Why fund an eccentric old scientist

⁴³ Who else would you give money to
Ones without the vision?
How would they expect to make money
Or get on television?

⁴⁴ This website has some samples *
Of green ways that really work
Without green thinking in our future
Our responsibilities we shirk

⁴⁵ Isn’t it about time
To demonstrate to folks
In practical applications
So more people we can coax

⁴⁶ Remember as you contemplate
While relaxing with your sherry
What good will come, if you become
The richest man in the cemetery

⁴⁷ So think seriously about it
To see what can be done
As we try to educate the folks
To help out everyone

If you’re really interested, please contact me.