West Tisbury Library Enters the Age of Sustainability

Of the six public libraries on Martha’s Vineyard the West Tisbury Free Public Library has the highest annual circulation and longest open hours for visitation.  It houses the Island’s largest book collection, and up until last year it yielded the highest circulation for its comparative space of a

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Grants Help Cities Promote Healthful Lifestyle with Clivus

After years of using unsightly portable restrooms, visitors to historic Slater Park in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, now have beautiful Clivus restrooms.  The City of Waltham, Massachusetts, also realized that their Prospect Hill Park pavilion guests could benefit from more appealing facilities. Not only are the restrooms clean, sanitary,

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Magee Fund helps Boy Scouts improve their camps

George W. Magee Memorial Trust fund has made it possible for many Massachusetts BSA Council camps to improve their restroom facilities and bring them indoors while still preserving the natural environments of the camps.  The Clivus composting systems installed at these and many other camps use no water,

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Shoals Marine Lab, Kittery, Maine

Shoals Marine Lab Goes Sustainable! Six miles off the Coast of Kittery, Maine, and Portsmouth, NH, sits the 95 acre Isles of Shoals island of Appledore, home to the Shoals Marine Lab.  Operated jointly by University of New Hampshire and Cornell University to provide marine biology, ecology, and

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