RI.gov awarded for work on DEM agriculture site
PROVIDENCE – RI.gov, Rhode Island’s official Web site, has been recognized by a national research and advisory institute on information technology policies and practices...
Block Island asks question: Do you want windmills?
The Block Island Town Council asked me in August 2008 to conduct an opinion survey about proposed on shore and offshore wind turbine installations...
APC shakes off declines, looks to energetic future
The last 12 months have not been easy for APC by Schneider Electric.
The South Kingstown-based company, founded here in 1981 as American Power Conversion,...
Wet weather dampens grape harvest
This summer’s wettest weather came at the worst possible time for the hundreds of tons of grapes that Rhode Island vineyards produce each year,...
Invested in green training
There’s a new landmark along Interstate 95 – a 156-foot-tall wind turbine on the Warwick campus of New England Institute of Technology.
Together with a...
Tropical Storm Danny now far weaker
(Updated, 11:15 a.m.)
MIAMI – Forecasters say Tropical Storm Danny has weakened over the Atlantic Ocean as it heads north through the Carolinas and is...
Charlestown wind project abandoned
The company behind a proposed small wind farm in Charlestown has abandoned the project after one of its owners died, The Westerly Sun reported...
‘Clunkers’ rebates total $10.7M in R.I.
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island car dealers requested a total of $10.7 million in vouchers from the federal government’s “Cash for Clunkers” program before the...
Providence called 4th-most stressful city
PROVIDENCE – If you feel stressed today, take heart: a national magazine says the problem is geographical.
That’s because the Providence-New Bedford-Fall River metropolitan area...
URI chemist wins $40,000 grant
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Radha Narayanan, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Rhode Island, has won a $40,000 grant from the nonprofit...
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