"The Rhode Island Food Center at URI is a resource center where members of the Rhode Island food system can seek answers, find partners, create innovations, and educate consumers. The Center is a program of URI’s College of the Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) in partnership the URI College of Business and the URI Business Engagement Center."
From the website, December 18, 2018
"Funded by 11th Hour Racing, Healthy Soils, Healthy Seas RI is a two-year project that aims to tackle ocean pollution at its root: on land. The initiative brings together existing composting efforts across the state in an integrated waste management model that diverts food waste from the landfill...."
Launch date: December 7, 2018.
From the launch announcement, November 28, 2018.
"Rhodeside Revival is Rhode Island’s local curbside composting program that brings your home’s food scraps away from the landfill, and into the garden."
From the website, November 28, 2018.
Providence is one of several cities in the US Fish and Wildlife Service Migratory Bird program, the Urban Bird Treaty.
RI C-AIM aka RI Collaboration for Coastal Ecology Assessment, Innovation, and Modeling
This was an informal movement spearheaded by Greg Gerritt, with many other Rhode Islanders contributing. Compost conferences were held for 11 years. The last one, 2019 Compost Conference, was March 14 at RI College.
In September 2018, this organization's name changed to Green Energy Consumers Alliance.
"Norman Bird Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary and environmental education center with more than 325 acres of diverse habitats and 7 miles of hiking trails." - From the website, July 6, 2018
