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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.

Industrial herring fishery’s bad idea shot down: a win for New England’s ocean ecosystem
Herring Alliance
10 years 5 months ago
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 22:01
Summer Yoga on the FarmCoast
Farmcoast New England
10 years 5 months ago
Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 10:22
Bringing Back Memories of the Bay
Save the Bay Tides News & Notes
10 years 5 months ago
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 21:18
A Successful Launch Day: Photo Contest, June 22, 2014
Roger Williams Park Botanical Center Conservancy News
10 years 5 months ago
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 21:53
Documents Reveal Governors’ Gas and Hydropower Plan Shaped by Industry and Incomplete Analysis
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
10 years 5 months ago
Sunday, February 15, 2015 - 10:38
Buckets of Gratitude: Neighbors, Friends and the Farming Community
Farm Fresh RI
10 years 5 months ago
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 20:23
The Bay as a Middle School Classroom
Save the Bay Tides News & Notes
10 years 6 months ago
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 21:18
Driving Electric
Save the Bay Watershed Writings
10 years 6 months ago
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 - 15:33
Mid Atlantic Managers Further Restrict Bycatch of River Herring and Shad
Herring Alliance
10 years 6 months ago
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 22:01
Media Focuses on Industrial Herring Trawler Impacts
Herring Alliance
10 years 6 months ago
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 22:01
Summer Music on the FarmCoast
Farmcoast New England
10 years 6 months ago
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 - 10:13
2014 Celebrate Providence! Neighborhood Performing Arts Series
Friends of Brown Street Park News
10 years 6 months ago
Friday, October 23, 2015 - 07:37
Adapting to Ongoing Erosion at Cranston’s Stillhouse Cove
Save the Bay Tides News & Notes
10 years 6 months ago
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 21:18
Guest Blog - A June Veggie Box
Farm Fresh RI
10 years 6 months ago
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 20:23
Touching the life of Narragansett Bay
Save the Bay Tides News & Notes
10 years 6 months ago
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 21:18
Rhode Island Senate Close to Passing Food Scrap Bill
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
10 years 6 months ago
Sunday, February 15, 2015 - 10:38
Bringing A Salt Marsh Back To Life
Save the Bay Tides News & Notes
10 years 6 months ago
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 21:18
Community Supported Agriculture: Top 10 Reasons to get a Farmcoast CSA this Summer
Farmcoast New England
10 years 6 months ago
Monday, June 2, 2014 - 23:11
Meet the CLF Dive Team
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
10 years 6 months ago
Sunday, February 15, 2015 - 10:38
Look Who’s New on the FarmCoast
Farmcoast New England
10 years 6 months ago
Monday, June 2, 2014 - 12:34

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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.