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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.

Post Your Flood Photos to MYCOAST
Beach SAMP News
9 years 4 months ago
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 18:50
Uganda Launches 1st Solar Bus in Africa
Renewable Now
9 years 4 months ago
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 18:50
Can Cuba be a Model for Sustainability?/From our main network site: Renewable Now.biz
Renewable Now
9 years 4 months ago
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 18:50
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 14:00
Updates from the Environment WG
RI Food Policy Council Blog (Oct 2015 - )
9 years 4 months ago
Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 17:22
Updates from the Environment WG
RI Food Policy Council (September 2015 -
9 years 4 months ago
Saturday, April 9, 2016 - 09:37
Saturday, March 5, 2016 - 04:37
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 11:54
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 16:57
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 03:52
Silvio Laccetti: A snub to Italian-Americans
Providence Journal Commentary
9 years 4 months ago
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 03:52
Froma Harrop: Apple has no right to thwart war on terrorism
Providence Journal Commentary
9 years 4 months ago
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 03:52
Arthur I. Cyr: U.S. should work with Russia in Syria
Providence Journal Commentary
9 years 4 months ago
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 03:52
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 23:48
Remembering Sister Dorothy Stang
Catholic Ecology
9 years 4 months ago
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 21:53
New wildlife refuge to benefit shrub-lovers
Narwhal's Left Tooth
9 years 4 months ago
Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 15:28
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 16:57
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 16:57
Raimondo Announces Choice for Revenue Director
RI Governor Press Releases
9 years 4 months ago
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 18:54
Rhode Island bank to shell out $25M in efficiency financing
Acadia Center News ( - July 2020)
9 years 4 months ago
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - 14:35

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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.