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environmental journal by peter lord 11/30/2008

Various groups offer ways to greener holidays
As the holiday season approaches, a growing array of groups are offering suggestions on how to make the holidays greener and more sustainable.

Various groups offer ways to greener holidays
As the holiday season approaches, a growing array of groups are offering suggestions on how to make the holidays greener and more sustainable.

11/23/2008

Federal aid sought to limit emissions
With various stimulus packages being proposed for banks, insurers, the auto industry and homeowners, the Conservation Law Foundation in Rhode Island has made yet another suggestion — it is calling on the state’s congressional delegation to try to get federal dollars to shore up the state’s battered infrastructure.

11/16/2008

URI Oceanography School gets hurricane-study financing
The American affiliate of a global reinsurance company is awarding $630,000 to researchers at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography to finance new studies of hurricane forecasting, risk analysis and the relationship between climate change and hurricanes.

11/09/2008

It may be starting to feel like winter, but no one told the ticks
Even though Rhode Island has experienced several frosts, the state’s leading tick researcher warns that people should continue protecting themselves from deer ticks until the ground becomes frozen, probably next month.

11/02/2008

Sea Grant honors CRMC chief Fugate
Grover Fugate, executive director of the state’s Coastal Resources Management Council for 22 years, has been given a lifetime achievement award by the Rhode Island Sea Grant program.

10/26/2008

Narragansett Bay’s dead zones a boon to quahogs
Few people can find much good to say about the so-called dead zones, the low oxygen conditions that develop in Narragansett Bay each summer. But a Brown University researcher has found one positive consequence: Rhode Island’s prized quahogs seem to thrive in dead zones.

10/19/2008

Environmental Journal: Canonchet Farm walks are rich with information, history
The Friends of Canonchet Farm is a nonprofit organization with the mission to improve and preserve Canonchet Farm in partnership with the Town of Narragansett. The property consists of freshwater and saltwater wetlands, forests, meadows and history. It abuts Pettaquamscutt Cove and Narrow River, both environmentally fragile areas.

10/12/2008

Rhode Island ranks 11th among states for energy efficiency
Rhode Island has been ranked the 11th state in the country for its efforts to improve energy efficiency, slipping slightly from last year when it tied at 9th.