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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.

Governor McKee Announces Choice for Department of Revenue Director
RI Governor Press Releases
3 years 3 months ago
Monday, June 21, 2021 - 09:15
How To Find Stripers & Friends with OSKF
Fish Wrap Writer
3 years 3 months ago
Sunday, June 20, 2021 - 08:50
‘India’s monsoon is unique — it’s an enormous movement of water and energy across Earth’ - Times of India
Brown Instiute for Environmental Studies
3 years 3 months ago
Friday, June 18, 2021 - 18:31
Exeter’s Commercial Greenhouse Project Shouldn’t be Exempt from Property Taxes
ecoRI Opinions 2
3 years 3 months ago
Friday, June 18, 2021 - 17:45
Governor McKee, Rhode Island Department of Health Lift COVID-19 Restrictions on Remaining "Higher Risk" Activities
RI Governor Press Releases
3 years 3 months ago
Friday, June 18, 2021 - 14:30
Governor McKee, State Leaders Kick Off 2021 Providence-Newport Ferry Season
RI Governor Press Releases
3 years 3 months ago
Friday, June 18, 2021 - 14:15
DEM to Offer Overview of Wyoming Dam Repair Project at Hopkinton Town Council Meeting June 21
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
3 years 3 months ago
Friday, June 18, 2021 - 13:45
The future looks good for new farmers in RI
Southside Community Land Trust
3 years 3 months ago
Thursday, June 17, 2021 - 13:03
Plans to Remove Potter Hill Dam Put Residents and Town Officials at Odds
ecoRI Natural Resources News
3 years 3 months ago
Thursday, June 17, 2021 - 06:20
Welcome, Olanda Estrada-Dos Santos!
Roger Williams Park Botanical Center Conservancy News
3 years 3 months ago
Wednesday, June 16, 2021 - 15:41
Sweeping Changes to Downtown PVD Would Cost $140 Million
ecoRI Smart Growth News
3 years 3 months ago
Wednesday, June 16, 2021 - 14:11
Promoting Saint Kateri Tekakwitha and Proclaiming the Good News on Social Media and the Internet
Catholic Ecology
3 years 3 months ago
Wednesday, June 16, 2021 - 13:36
Rhode Island leaders announce a first-of-its-kind statewide program to put body-worn cameras on every uniformed police officer
RI Governor Press Releases
3 years 3 months ago
Wednesday, June 16, 2021 - 10:15
DEM to Offer Additional Surf Lifeguard Certification Test on Monday, June 28
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
3 years 3 months ago
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 - 16:15
ELA Names Winners of 2021 Spotlight on Natives Contest
Ecological Landscape Assn News
3 years 3 months ago
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 - 13:52
The Quarry Gardens at Schuyler
Ecological Landscape Assn News
3 years 3 months ago
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 - 13:51
Planting Landscape Niches
Ecological Landscape Assn News
3 years 3 months ago
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 - 13:50
The Ecological Gardener
Ecological Landscape Assn News
3 years 3 months ago
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 - 13:47
Think Like a Forest
Ecological Landscape Assn News
3 years 3 months ago
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 - 13:46
ELA News – June 2021
Ecological Landscape Assn News
3 years 3 months ago
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 - 10:31

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Especially for Rhode Islanders

Selected news that's especially for Rhode Islanders. I haven't been indexing articles for a few years, but it would be useful to do so -- if only there were enough time!

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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.