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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.

Bethlehem Landfill’s Pollution of Ammonoosuc River Must Stop
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
7 years 3 months ago
Friday, June 15, 2018 - 16:38
Alliance for Clean Energy Solutions Commends Massachusetts Senate for Passage of Ambitious Clean Energy Bill
Acadia Center News ( - July 2020)
7 years 3 months ago
Friday, June 15, 2018 - 10:37
Bike to the SVF Farm – It only happens once a year.
Bike Newport RI -- Rack & Roll Blog
7 years 3 months ago
Friday, June 15, 2018 - 11:42
New England Alpaca Fiber Pool Hiring Customer Support/Administrative Assistant
Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership
7 years 3 months ago
Thursday, June 14, 2018 - 19:47
My Turn: Scott Turner: Privet fragrance carries 50 years of history
Providence Journal Commentary
7 years 3 months ago
Thursday, June 14, 2018 - 19:39
Good, evil were hiding in last week’s first reading
Catholic Ecology
7 years 3 months ago
Thursday, June 14, 2018 - 17:45
Quiet Thyme
Blithewold Garden Blog
7 years 3 months ago
Thursday, June 14, 2018 - 18:34
More and more renewable energy comes with batteries included
Energy Consumers Bulletin
7 years 3 months ago
Friday, June 15, 2018 - 05:40
Is There An Algorithm to End World Hunger?/Food Tank
Renewable Now
7 years 3 months ago
Thursday, June 14, 2018 - 13:40
Goddard Memorial State Park Beach in Warwick Reopened for Swimming
RI Health Department - Beach Monitoring Press Releases
7 years 3 months ago
Thursday, June 14, 2018 - 16:40
Deepwater Wind Wins Bid To Bring Offshore Wind Power To Connecticut
Acadia Center News ( - July 2020)
7 years 3 months ago
Wednesday, June 20, 2018 - 10:36
Rhode Island Mourns Loss of Natural Wonder
ecoRI People
7 years 3 months ago
Thursday, June 14, 2018 - 07:47
Rhode Island PrideFest and Illuminated Night Parade – June 16, 2018
Greater City Providence
7 years 3 months ago
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 - 17:36
What Offshore Wind Means for New England
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
7 years 3 months ago
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 - 15:35
Labor and Clean Energy Advocates Applaud Connecticut’s Selection of Bid for 200 MW Offshore Wind
Acadia Center News ( - July 2020)
7 years 3 months ago
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 - 14:32
Taking On Dams on Maine’s Royal River
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
7 years 3 months ago
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 - 15:35
The Royal Treatment: DEM, RI Beekeepers Association To Distribute Queen Honeybees To Registered Beekeepers
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
7 years 3 months ago
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 - 14:32
Infosys and Rhode Island School of Design Launch Pioneering Design Partnership
RI Governor Press Releases
7 years 3 months ago
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 - 11:36
UPDATED: City Plan Commission Meeting – June 19, 2018
Greater City Providence
7 years 3 months ago
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 - 10:35
State Taps First-Ever Offshore Wind Power In Clean Energy Program
Acadia Center News ( - July 2020)
7 years 3 months ago
Wednesday, June 20, 2018 - 10:36

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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.