What is NOMAD
NOMAD: the vanguard of floating cities and global network communities, where the main activity is the intensive production of marine crops through “Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture” (IMTA), which allows great productivity and low environmental impacts. Other economic activities focus on environmental monitoring, advanced education in marine sciences, ecotourism, and entrepreneurial support. The result is a high functioning, multi-purposed station with several potential sources of income, which assure its financial success.
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A solution For
Marine life
Endangered by overexploitation and damaging fishing practices to natural marine environments, but upon which, many families rely on.
Education
Academic and labor supply is scarce in the fields of marine sciences, despite the vast maritime sovereignty that Costa Rica exhibits in contrast to its territory and population.
Sustainability
The irrational use of resources, due to the average user's ignorance, gives rise to excessive consumption of water and energy, as well as the discarding of reusable materials.
Our Purpose and Vision
NOMAD’s purpose is to create habitable offshore facilities for research, education, and intensive production of marine crops, which also serve as an ecotourism attraction in different coastal locations around the world, without compromising the fundamental guideline of rehabilitating marine ecosystems.
Through current technologies for education, any high school graduate may collaborate in a program that will inspire and encourage them to create a startup of their own, while still dedicating time and effort to feed the world in a safe, reliable and sustainable manner.
For the first year, a single module will provide insight into the needs and procedures required to ensure optimal outcomes at the lowest environmental impact. Other modules will join next so that by year five, the first Cluster will showcase its results to the world, and use them to promulgate its methods to ease its transition into a global operation, and create Clusters in similar locations.
By year ten, Clusters will have settled in at least five more locations, thereby establishing the NOMAD Global Community Network. Aside from helping their respective coastal community, its crew will also be able to apply for temporal transfers or exchanges within the Network. Through this, they may travel, and learn from peers, while maintaining the security of food, shelter, and work, like their primary Cluster's.
