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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.

Monday, June 19, 2017 - 08:25
An Introduction to the Warwick Summer Cleanup Series
Save the Bay Tides News & Notes
8 years 2 weeks ago
Monday, June 19, 2017 - 22:32
Monday, June 19, 2017 - 04:33
Sunday, June 18, 2017 - 11:34
Sunday, June 18, 2017 - 09:33
Sunday, June 18, 2017 - 13:32
Saturday, June 17, 2017 - 23:35
Old Ideas #3: Car-free Barbara Leonard Way
Transport Providence
8 years 2 weeks ago
Saturday, June 17, 2017 - 16:32
L’Oréal USA Announces Cradle to Cradle Certifications for Biolage R.A.W. Nourish Shampoo and Conditioner /RNN
Renewable Now
8 years 3 weeks ago
Saturday, June 17, 2017 - 12:36
Hot walls can change your garden for good
Providence Journal Garden News
8 years 3 weeks ago
Tuesday, July 4, 2017 - 13:35
10 ways to dress up your kitchen
Providence Journal Garden News
8 years 3 weeks ago
Thursday, July 6, 2017 - 16:34
Lenore Manderson receives Faculty Leadership Award for her “Writing on Water” event for the 2018 Earth Itself program
Brown University Environmental Studies
8 years 3 weeks ago
Friday, June 16, 2017 - 18:35
Conimicut Point Beach Closed for Swimming
RI Health Department - Beach Monitoring Press Releases
8 years 3 weeks ago
Friday, June 16, 2017 - 18:35
Shining Rock – Northbridge
Trails & Walks in Rhode Island
8 years 3 weeks ago
Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 02:34
New CSA aims to support immigrants’ cultural traditions
Southside Community Land Trust
8 years 3 weeks ago
Tuesday, July 4, 2017 - 01:19
Gardening: My Japanese primroses are a delight to behold
Providence Journal Garden News
8 years 3 weeks ago
Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 12:35
Old Ideas Revamped #2: Connect Highland & Camp
Transport Providence
8 years 3 weeks ago
Friday, June 16, 2017 - 15:33
New Sustainability Book Offers Blueprint for the Future Planet/RNN
Renewable Now
8 years 3 weeks ago
Friday, June 16, 2017 - 15:33
RI Clean Energy Jobs See 66 Percent Growth Since 2014/Renewable Now Network.com
Renewable Now
8 years 3 weeks ago
Friday, June 16, 2017 - 15:33
Aquidneck Island Goes Green to Battle Polluted Runoff
ecoRI News
8 years 3 weeks ago
Friday, June 16, 2017 - 12:35

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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.