The Víctor Parés Montessori School in San Juan received a $183,000 solar panel and battery system this year that will allow it to resume classes promptly and be more resilient following a major climate event like Hurricane María, which kept the campus without electricity for months, and recent earthquakes in Puerto Rico. This is possible […]
The Combate Beach Resort in Cabo Rojo recently landed two industry awards for operational excellence, from Booking.com and the Puerto Rico Tourism Co. The property founded in 2011 received the “Traveler Review Award 2020” from online travel site Booking.com for having maintained an average rating of nine on a scale of 10, in client evaluations. The […]
Puerto Rico’s Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory, home to the Forward Research organization, was selected to be a part of the Battelle NEON STEM Grant Program, a national $100,000 initiative that enables five student research projects to leverage the open data generated by the National Ecological Observatory Network. Forward Research’s project — known as the “Puerto […]