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May / June 2006
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Floating Neutrinos
In 1998 the Floating Neutrinos, an oddball family of artists and musicians, made the first known crossing of the Atlantic in a raft made of scrap scavenged from the streets of New York City. Son of Town Hall (pictured above) remains in France today. In the past two decades the Neutrinos have built 10 of these vessels, including a floating performance space and an oceangoing catamaran. Their ultimate goal is to build a floating orphanage to give Third World street children a home and an education. To learn more or to volunteer for a crew, visit www.floatingneutrinos.com.

Norway's Ark
Next year, the Norwegian government plans to begin building a massive seed bank housing specimens of all the world's known crops. According to a BBC report cited in Adbusters (March/April 2006), the "doomsday vault" will be built deep in a sandstone mountain on the island of Spitsbergen, high above the Arctic Circle. The surrounding permafrost will take care of refrigeration, and meter-thick concrete walls, airlocks, and blast-proof doors will protect the facility from natural disasters and other global catastrophes.

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