Brown elevators provide top-to-bottom savings
When organizations look for ways to reduce their energy consumption, they often focus on obvious targets like light bulbs or air conditioning. But a...
Opportunity still exists in long decline ahead
The slowdown that many design and environmental firms are already facing and the likely recession and recovery that the industry will experience in 2009...
City teams with school to replace, care for trees
As part of a collaboration between the French-American School of Rhode Island Parents’ Association, the Providence City Parks Department and Trees 2020, students and...
Public investment has dual potential
While government is often derided as being an impediment to progress, a project coming to fruition in Attleboro is proving that government also can...
R.I. Mall pays PCB fine
WARWICK – The Rhode Island Mall has paid a $36,100 fine for PCB use and discharge in several freight elevators, the U.S. Environmental Protection...
Mass. to raise bar for ‘green’ building
BOSTON – Gov. Deval L. Patrick today announced new goals for “green” development, setting a target of requiring energy efficiency and partial solar power...
KeySpan costs pare National Grid profit
LONDON – For the six months ended Sept. 30, National Grid plc (NYSE: NGG), the parent of U.S. electric and natural gas utility National...
Converted Organics posts $428,516 in 3Q sales
BOSTON – Converted Organics Inc. (Nasdaq: COIN), the food-waste to fertilizer startup that made its first sales early this year and is now preparing...
National Grid seeks 13.7% cut in electric rates
PROVIDENCE – National Grid is seeking a sharp reduction in electric rates for Rhode Island customers, effective Jan. 1.
A decline in generating costs, as...
Solar technology firm opens New Bedford plant
NEW BEDFORD – Bay State solar-energy technology company Konarka Technologies Inc. has signed a $10 million long-term lease on a 257,000-square-foot building in the...
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