The Crockpot: Utne’s Weekly Guide to What You May Have Missed
The North
Atlantic may finally be home to hundreds of floating
wind turbines: According to Treehugger, Britain and the U.S. are set to collaborate on a multimillion-dollar floating wind farm initiative that will eventually generate as much as 7 megawatts of electricity. The agreement is years in the making, but could be operational by 2016. And while European countries have been moving on offshore wind farms for years, the U.S. has lagged behind, that is until very recently. Read More
And don’t miss…
Tokyo’s terrifying, beautiful tire monster and other playground masterpieces.
Why Google’s CEO wants to pan
for gold on an asteroid.
How New
Orleans became a filmmaking
Mecca in the years after Katrina.
Why heavy drinking makes
you feel like
a kid again.
The totally amazing and/or
laughably obsolete USB
typewriter.
Why 4G means precisely
nothing.
The surprisingly accurate
and informative colored-pencil
Europe.
Why the family farm is now
code for dangerous
child labor.
How a small group of
freethinkers smuggled
banned books back into Tucson.
Why the philosophical
roots of happiness and enjoyment are easily
forgotten. The pursuit of happiness pervades modern society, but in an
earlier, Augustinian sense, enjoyment referred to a deeper spirituality that
went far beyond consumption or entertainment. The loss of this ideal, argues
one 21st century philosopher, means a loss of intrinsic value in
anything. Read More
Image by Dirk Ingo
Franke, licensed under Creative
Commons.
