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These articles come in automatically from raw news feeds. I don't have time to clean up the irrelevant and sometimes duplicative stuff, but it nevertheless demonstrates that an aggregated news resource would be very useful locally. Although the Providence Journal is a shadow of its former self, local environment-related news is produced by various independent reporters and groups, including directly from government agencies and nonprofits. At present we either must subscribe to numerous sources flooding our inboxes and news feeds - an assault we don't have time for, or we ignore the issues because the news is scattered and does not reach critical mass. We need local Associated Press-type collating and curating!

Below the latest news are examples of Featured and Indexed articles that I curated a few years ago. This website actually has a lot of valuable background information on Rhode Island's environment. Scroll down the page to see.

State approves Block Island energy efficiency plan
RI Office of Energy Resources News
3 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, May 27, 2020 - 11:15
Coalition Offers Rhode Island Officials Path to Walking, Bicycling Success
ecoRI Opinions 2
3 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, May 27, 2020 - 08:36
Table Rock Trail – Hopkinton
Trails & Walks in Rhode Island
3 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - 21:48
My Turn: Felicia Nimue Ackerman: Surviving the advice pandamic
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - 16:20
My Turn: Sarah Martino: Post-COVID justice system should be smaller, smarter
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - 16:20
Letters: Raimondo as VP; Trump's obsession; a rip on Hanson
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
3 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - 16:20
DEM to Offer Additional Surf Lifeguard Certification Test on Thursday, May 28
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
3 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - 16:00
Portsmouth teacher named R.I. Teacher of the Year
Providence Journal Education
3 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - 15:09
Cyr column: Life and disease - and fear
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - 10:41
Mosquito Larvicide Available to Communities Tomorrow
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
3 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - 09:30
These are uncharted waters on both sides of the border
Fish Wrap Writer
3 years 10 months ago
Monday, May 25, 2020 - 19:48
My Turn: Caitlin Molina: Valuing child care as a public good
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 10 months ago
Monday, May 25, 2020 - 17:22
Walking open trails
RI Wild Plant Society News
3 years 10 months ago
Monday, May 25, 2020 - 11:59
Climate Crisis is Unmasked and Ready to Wash Over Us
ecoRI Opinions 2
3 years 10 months ago
Monday, May 25, 2020 - 07:23
Female Spawning Stock of Atlantic Stripers in Trouble
ecoRI Aquaculture and Fisheries News
3 years 10 months ago
Monday, May 25, 2020 - 06:14
Roots of shoreline repair: In E. Providence, trying a soft approach to erosion control
Providence Journal Environment
3 years 10 months ago
Sunday, May 24, 2020 - 17:08
Letters: Blame Uber for Jump bikes failure; consolidate to ease budget woes; R.I. can't afford not to legalize marijuana
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
3 years 10 months ago
Sunday, May 24, 2020 - 16:20
My Turn: Victor Davis Hanson: Across the wide, growing American divide
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 10 months ago
Saturday, May 23, 2020 - 16:20
Letters: Let's worship safely; marijuana can ease budget woes; try a garden-variety stress reliever
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
3 years 10 months ago
Saturday, May 23, 2020 - 16:20
My Turn: Froma Harrop: Pandemic makes end-of-life care harder
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 10 months ago
Saturday, May 23, 2020 - 16:20

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Ideally I'd index the relevant stuff and discard the rest regularly, but I am not devoting my time to this in 2018 and 2019. It would be useful to have this compilation of news from a wide variety of responsible local organizations, though. This is a sample of what could be if more people started working on this project. I did index news from the beginning of 2015 into 2018, with a few gaps. It's possible to keep this up in an hour or two a day. But then I can't do other stuff..... SK

 

[First published in early 2015}  News about Rhode Island's environment is gathered automatically from blogs and feeds, and almost every source originates in Rhode Island. This processcatches some stories that aren't  important or relevant to this website, but everything here is in order of latest date published at top. Some of the feeds don't alwaysn work, some need adjustment, and some stories I see in newspapers or websites that I want to include but can't be brought in automatically, so some news is missing. Eventually, this news service will be refined, but there's plenty to read already.

A more useful way to read the news is by category. I assign environmental categories to news stories as I read them, which sometimes means they don't show up for a little while if I'm taking a break from indexing things here. I don't index the irrelevant stuff. Some stories go back to 2010 because their news feeds were set up to deliver older stories, not just the usual 5 or 10 stories.

Providential Gardener does not necessarily agree or disagree with any of the views expressed in these blogs. Facts may or may not be accurate. So read thoughtfully and do your own research in reliable sources. Of course, in this day and age of the Wild-West internet where everyone can publish their opinions, it's a serious and important question what "reliable sources" might be....

If you want to subscribe to one of the news sources directly, go to the source and grab the rss feed. In the menu, there is a list of news sources.