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Watch Out, Cape Wind: Deepwater Wind Proposes Largest Offshore Wind Farm in U.S.

Deepwater Wind proposed this week the biggest off-shore wind farm ever in the U.S.--a deepwater wind farm near Rhode Island that will include 200 wind turbines and power up to 800,000 homes at a cost of $5 billion dollars. READ»

Washington Post Google Maps Tracking Rapist

The police and press, usually uneasy bedfellows (see the fifth season of The Wire), have turned to crowd-sourcing in an attempt to solve a series of rapes and assaults that has left authorities in four states baffled. It's probably ...READ»

Would You Work in an Office Building Made of Shipping Containers?

We've profiled homes made out of recycled shipping containers before, but Providence, Rhode Island's upcoming Box Office project is a more ambitious attempt at making use of the corrugated steel boxes. Slated to be completed in ...READ»