Jeffrey Olinger, an architectural designer and principal with NWD of Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his partner Heather Boesch, who work on sustainable redevelopment of Iraq and other conflict zones, hatched a plan to re-purpose the precast concrete panels used for barricades to cordon off the Green Zone and
other military outposts.
But there are many
other reasons — including the race to pump undersea oil and to establish new
military outposts — that have nations with Arctic coasts scrabbling, like aggressive crabs, to establish territorial rights.