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SUPPLY AND DEMAND: Gem Plumbing & Heating uses a computerized dispatch center to help its vehicles find the most efficient route. The company utilizes green consulting firm GECKO Inc. /

Supply chain next in green movement

It’s clear that George O’Loughlin, who last year started a no-fee green consulting firm called GECKO Inc., doesn’t want to be the heavy. He...
THE FORMER TALBOT PROPERTY borders the 1,500-acre preserve area that The Nature Conservancy already owns in Exeter and West Greenwich. /

Conservancy purchases Exeter land

EXETER – As part of a long-term conservation effort to protect the “headwaters” areas of the state’s watershed, The Nature Conservancy in Rhode Island...
THE PROJECT'S rental cottages will be powered by a wind turbine /

Sandywoods Farm construction begins

TIVERTON – Construction has started on the long-planned Sandywoods Farm project, a mixed-use and environmentally friendly project in Tiverton. Developer Church Community Housing Corporation broke...

Pending sales up Feb. through May

WASHINGTON – Pending home sales rose each month from February through May, the National Association of Realtors reported early this month. NAR’s Pending Home...

PPS awards Jewelry District project

PROVIDENCE – The Providence Preservation Society gave its “Rehabilitation Award” to ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge for its redesign of the 30,000-square-foot Rolo Jewelry Building in...
"I WANT to be knowledgeable about retrofits and reselling, because green is the way things are going," said Cheryl Eley, a broker with Residential Properties.
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Five Questions With: Cheryl Eley

For more than a decade, Cheryl Eley has been a broker with Residential Properties Ltd. and has been manager of the company’s East Greenwich...

Hexagon sues over tool infringement

BOSTON – Hexagon Metrology, which since 2001 has owned and operated North Kingstown’s Brown & Sharpe, announced today that it has filed a patent...
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY: John Matouk & Co., a Fall River linen distributor, will rely on solar energy for about 30 percent of its power. /

New generation harnesses power of green energy

After eight decades of importing, manufacturing and selling fine linens, John Matouk & Co. Inc. will make a big change this year: It will...
HOME SWEET HOME: Marlene and Keith Marshall at their new Cumberland home. The home, built by MEJJ Development, could cut the couple’s annual energy bills by $1,500. /

LEED not the only worthy green building standard

Keith Marshall, manager of communications and marketing at Bank Rhode Island, hasn’t sneezed much since moving into his new, green home. Not that he...
BOUNCING BACK: R.I. Association of Realtors President Paul A. Leys says the single-family and multifamily housing markets will recover before condominiums. /

Real estate market showing signs of a bottom in R.I.

Since late October, Paul A. Leys has served as president of the Rhode Island Association of Realtors. He spoke recently with Providence Business News...
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