This New England

A work by Mimo Gordon Riley in a new and innovative collaboration to start next month at Didi Suydam Contemporary, on Bannister's Wharf, in Newport. She joins Kate Blacklock, Janet Prip, Gretchen Dow Simpson, Peter Diepenbrock and Didi Suydam in the project.

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You'll soon see wind turbines at New Haven Harbor. Local businessmen Brian and Kevin Driscoll plan to put up a 151-foot turbine at their Fair Haven Phoenix Press property. The company loves green investment -- it already recycles much of its materials.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the harbor the city, with the help of the State of Connecticut, will put a 90-foot turbine on Long Wharf Drive.

The great thing about these projects is that they'll be so visible to so many people living in New Haven, and passing through on Route 95, and so, I'd hope, would give a lot of other people the same idea.

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It's also good news that three Woods Hole research centers are creating something called the Woods Hole Consortium to cooperate on research.

The group -- the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Woods Hole Research Center -- are already, individually, powerhouses.

Now, in focusing a new collaboration on climate-change issues, they will become more so -- and so be a scientific and economic boon for the region. A sort of mini-Silicon Valley for climate issues.

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You have to have some sympathy for the angry villagers of Broughton in England who blocked a Google Street View car that was taking photographs of their homes this week. They were understandably angry about Google's relentless drive to violate the privacy of just about everybody on the planet in its pursuit of billions of dollars more in profit.

Google has become so big by copyright infringement, privacy invasions and cozy deals with totalitarian regimes. The implications of its power and reach are creepy. The Anti-Trust Division of the Justice Department needs to get cranking.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6022902.ece

For a very wild ride, read:

http://instapunk.com/

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