EcoRI expands into Bay State, opens EcoMass
A four-year old, very green, Providence start-up business is expanding into Massachusetts. Our friends and allies over at EcoRI News are opening a second site called ecoMass News. Massachusetts and Rhode Island share the same border and are linked by a common watershed; our economies overlap; many live in one state and work in the [...]
New Providence Bike Plan Looks for Safer Routes
Those who had cycled to the Bike Providence Public Workshop at Exchange Terrace downtown arrived to find there was no bike rack. Instead, they made do by hitching their rides to lampposts and parking signs.
Electric Vehicles to be Plugged Into State’s Fleet
By Tim Faulkner/ecoRI News For the first time, Rhode Island is including electric vehicles in its annual purchase of state cars and trucks. As another first, cities and towns can also buy EVs and other fuel-efficient vehicles through the program. The new vehicles include the all-electric Ford Focus, Nissan Leaf and Honda Fit. Plug-in gas-electric [...]
Save the Bay: “Grave Concerns” Over Polluting Waterfront Junkyard
EcoRI reported while we were gone that Save The Bay has delivered a letter to the Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and the Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) about “persistent violations of the federal Clean Water Act by Rhode Island Recycled Metals.” “The scrap metals recycling industry is growing rapidly along the Providence waterfront — [...]
Leading Environmentalist Sheila Dormody picked as Providence’s first Sustainability Director
EcoRI reports that Providence Mayor Angel Taveras has hired the longtime director of Clean Water Action, Sheila Dormody, to be the city’s first Sustainability Director. This hire is another impressive progressive hire by Taveras since taking office in January including: former blog godfather and SEIU/JwJ organizer Matt Jerzyk, trial attorney and Obama finance co-chair Jeff [...]
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