Rhode Island Can Be Heroic On Climate Change
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail”~ Ben Franklin Fourth Economy Consulting, a firm out of Pennsylvania hired as part of the federally funded “Sustainable RI” grant, recently submitted its preliminary report of the strengths and weaknesses of Rhode Island’s economy. The first recommendation in the report’s initial guidance section is to “Create [...]
Feb 17: Protest the Pipeline
The environmental movement – and the planet it wants to protect – will come to a fork in the road on Feb. 17. Tens of thousands of people will descend on DC to demand that President Obama kill the Keystone Pipeline once and for all. And he might do it. On the other hand, he [...]
Environmental Disobedience
For those of you trapped in caves, the weather has been getting unruly of late. 2012 was the latest in a long string of very hot years, the hottest on record in fact. It brought with it extreme drought, raging wildfires and Superstorm Sandy. The accumulated damage is still being tabulated but it will be [...]
Prospects Brighten for Transit Financing Fix
Over the last 31 years, the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) has come to the public 28 times to tell us of the need to either cut service or raise fares, sometimes both. Last summer RIPTA proposed a 10% service reduction in the face of a 4.6 million dollar deficit. While RIPTA has been [...]
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