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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.

Retrospective – RIWPS
RI Wild Plant Society News
2 years 5 months ago
Monday, November 28, 2022 - 20:39
Green Teacher Webinar Series
RI Environmental Education Assn News
2 years 5 months ago
Monday, November 28, 2022 - 18:59
Partnership grants for afterschool programming
RI Environmental Education Assn News
2 years 5 months ago
Monday, November 28, 2022 - 18:44
Successful 2022 Youth Retreat
RI Environmental Education Assn News
2 years 5 months ago
Monday, November 28, 2022 - 17:44
North Attleboro Town Forest – North Attleboro
Trails & Walks in Rhode Island
2 years 5 months ago
Monday, November 28, 2022 - 15:49
Muskrats and Junco
Moshassuck Critters Videos
2 years 5 months ago
Monday, November 28, 2022 - 11:43
Products for Body and House Aspire to Wean Us Off Toxins
ecoRI news (2022)
2 years 5 months ago
Monday, November 28, 2022 - 10:22
New Olneyville Library Puts Tools in Circulation
ecoRI news (2022)
2 years 5 months ago
Monday, November 28, 2022 - 08:52
Muskrat and Heron
Moshassuck Critters Videos
2 years 5 months ago
Sunday, November 27, 2022 - 14:59
Junco Eating Catkins
Moshassuck Critters Videos
2 years 5 months ago
Saturday, November 26, 2022 - 09:26
Ep 6 - Luna Endures: A Redwood's Survival Tale
This Old Tree
2 years 5 months ago
Saturday, November 26, 2022 - 17:00
DEM Reminds RI Farm, Food, and Seafood Businesses of Nov. 30 Deadline to Apply for $700,000 in LASA Grant Funding
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
2 years 5 months ago
Friday, November 25, 2022 - 15:15
Providence Sustainability Commission opposes current ProvPort deal
Uprise RI Environment News
2 years 5 months ago
Friday, November 25, 2022 - 14:41
New Electric School Buses Coming to Massachusetts & Rhode Island
Energy Consumers Bulletin
2 years 5 months ago
Friday, November 25, 2022 - 10:26
Muskrat, Turkeys, Gulls
Moshassuck Critters Videos
2 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 - 16:07
Governor McKee Wishes Rhode Islanders a Happy Thanksgiving
RI Governor Press Releases
2 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 - 13:00
DEM, REI Co-op Invite Rhode Islanders to #OptOutside on Black Friday
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
2 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 - 13:00
ProvPort lease renewal appears to be fast tracked to avoid negative public input
Uprise RI Environment News
2 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 - 12:55
Changes to the MOR-EV Rebate!
Energy Consumers Bulletin
2 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 - 12:30
Giving Tuesday: Help Bike Newport Expand In-School Bike Safety Training
Bike Newport RI -- Rack & Roll Blog
2 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 - 11:04

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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.