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Eager Engineers Plan A 'Green' Island City In The Bay Area

Like any big city San Francisco is running out of room. Even with great public transit and the constant flow of eco-friendly options coming from America’s tech center, there just isn’t enough space to keep everyone happy. Engineers, including an ex-Googler, are looking to fix this with an idea that’s one part experiment and one part solution. Their dream is to create a seastead—a manmade island structure right off shore.

Unlike Dubai’s offerings, this new “island” creation looks to do more than just provide swanky accommodations and high elevation tennis. The team at The Seasteading Institute has already begun to draw up plans that would create a floating landmass. They take their design from oil platforms, and hope to create one right on the Pacific Ocean. One engineer likened his design to that of a cruise ship, but we doubt that viewing it from shore will bring back memories of your first Carnival Cruise.

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Off to the Amana Colonies

The Chicago Tribune pays a call to the Amana Colonies, seven small Iowan towns that were founded as experiments in communal living. They operated communally for nearly 90 years, until 1932. Now, the towns and their businesses are major regional tourist attractions -- the Colonial Williamsburg of the midwest, if you will.
If you go, whatever you do, don't call them the Amish. Although both groups have a predilection for severe clothes and (in the past, at least) keeping to themselves, the more mystic Amana colonists have little else in common with the Amish.

Related Stories:
·   Amana Colonies [Official Web site]
·   The Amana Colonies [National Register of Historic Places]