The Sustainable Business Network of Rhode Island, incorporated in 2008, merged with the Apeiron Institute for Sustainable Living in 2009. The Network’s vision is that local businesses not only generate community wealth, but also are catalysts for civic action, social diversity, and ecological health for a sustainable Rhode Island. We work with communities and businesses of every size to build community assets like sustainable agriculture, green buildings, renewable energy, community capital, zero-waste manufacturing, and energy independence. The SBNRI believes that by becoming the leader for Sustainable Economic research and development, training/education and business services, it will catalyze businesses to work and learn together to build a sustainable state. Rhode Island counts approximately 87,000 businesses, which have the potential to bring about substantive change and to become an example for other states.

Solar panels displayed in downtown Providence's financial
district during the 2009 Providence Sustainability Festival.