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Sustainable mobility starts here

Climate change may be a somewhat controversial topic, but it’s important to tackle head-on because the stakes are high – particularly for Narragansett Bay. According...
THREE RHODE ISLAND BEACHES were named in a Wednesday list published by the Boston Globe as the best beaches to visit in New England. Above, Town Beach at Matunuck in South Kingstown. / COURTESY TOWN OF SOUTH KINGSTOWN

3 R.I. beaches named to Boston Globe best in New England...

PROVIDENCE - In a ranking released Wednesday by the Boston Globe – ironically also the first day in 2018 to break 80 degrees in...
BANNER EVENT: Sail Newport Executive Director Brad Read, this year’s Volvo Ocean Race stopover executive director, and Sue Maffei Plowden, race event director, stand on the porch of the Sail Newport Sailing Center with the banner for Volvo Ocean Race Newport. The city is the lone North American stopover for the 2017-18 international race.
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Will experience pay off as Newport prepares to once again host...

Martha Parker looks back fondly on the 2015 Volvo Ocean Race Newport stopover and the favorable impact it had on her foul-weather sailing gear...
SAVE THE BAY, nonprofits, anglers and small businesses have urged Gov. Gina M. Raimondo and Sen. V. Susan Sosnowski to vote for higher protections for menhaden, a fish that is eaten by large fish, whales and osprey. / COURTESY SAVE THE BAY

Environmentalists, fisheries call for better protection of menhaden

PROVIDENCE – A coalition of Rhode Island environmental groups, anglers and small businesses urged Gov. Gina M. Raimondo and Sen. V. Susan Sosnowski, D-South...
PEOPLE'S CREDIT UNION employees spent a couple days this month helping to clean up beaches in Rhode Island, which the credit union says is one of its greatest assets. / COURTESY PEOPLE'S CREDIT UNION

People’s Credit Union employees help clean up Rhode Island beaches

MIDDLETOWN – People’s Credit Union joined an effort to clean up beaches earlier this month with Clean Ocean Access and Save The Bay. The Middletown-based...
THE U.S. EPA awarded $3.9 million in a grant that will be used to fund projects that protect and restrore coastal ecosystems and their watersheds in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

EPA awards $3.9M for coastal water projects in R.I. and Mass.

PROVIDENCE – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday a $3.9 million grant to Restore America’s Estuaries under the Southeast New England Program. “We are...

Most-read stories during June 2017, on PBN.com

1. 2017 40 Under Forty winners chosen POSTED ONLINE: June 16 Providence Business News has chosen the winners for its 13th 40 Under Forty program, to...
Greg Gerritt, winner of the 2017 Alison Walsh Award for Outstanding Environmental Advocacy, is a long-time activist for ecological and economic justice and administrator for the Environment Council of Rhode Island. / PHOTO COURTESY SAVE THE BAY

Save The Bay names 2017 environmental award honorees

PROVIDENCE – Save The Bay announced four local residents and one volunteer organization as the recipients of its 2017 environmental awards – according to...
SWIM PREPARATION: Swimmers and kayakers in the fourth wave of the 40th Save The Bay Swim in August 2016 get ready to start their 1.7-nautical-mile challenge  from Newport to Jamestown. / COURTESY SAVE THE BAY

Fundraising costs, benefits go beyond money for nonprofits

Once every year Narragansett Bay, from Naval Station Newport to Jamestown’s Potter Cove, is flooded with 700 swimmers and kayakers dedicated to improving and...
SAVE THE Bay has named Michael Jarbeau the nonprofit's new "Baykeeper." /COURTESY SAVE THE BAY

Save The Bay names Jarbeau ‘BayKeeper’

PROVIDENCE – Save The Bay, an environmental advocacy group, has named Michael Jarbeau its new Narragansett "Baykeeper." Jarbeau, who becomes the fourth Baykeeper since 1992,...
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