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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.

Rhode Island Receives $82 Million CDC Grant for the Development of Rhode Island Center of Excellence for Laboratory Sciences
RI Governor Press Releases
3 years 4 weeks ago
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 - 11:00
The Public Gets It: We Have to Phase Out Gas-Powered Cars
Energy Consumers Bulletin
3 years 4 weeks ago
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 - 09:03
Providence Moves Closer to LPG Expansion Limits
ecoRI Government News
3 years 4 weeks ago
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 - 06:33
Asphalt Piles Remain Along Providence Waterfront Month After Paving Company Denied Zoning Variance
ecoRI Government News
3 years 4 weeks ago
Monday, November 15, 2021 - 15:38
Introducing RESPECT: Acadia Center’s Proposal to Transform Utility Planning
Acadia Center News Items
3 years 4 weeks ago
Monday, November 15, 2021 - 15:08
Urban Forest Advocates Celebrate PVD Tree Plan
ecoRI Public Safety News
3 years 4 weeks ago
Monday, November 15, 2021 - 14:08
Local artists join Save The Bay for the 2021 Artists for The Bay online fundraiser 
Save the Bay 2021
3 years 4 weeks ago
Monday, November 15, 2021 - 14:00
Local artists join Save The Bay for the 2021 Artists for The Bay online fundraiser 
Save the Bay Tides News & Notes
3 years 4 weeks ago
Monday, November 15, 2021 - 14:00
Bumblebee survey reveals species thought extirpated from Rhode Island
Narwhal's Left Tooth
3 years 4 weeks ago
Monday, November 15, 2021 - 13:13
DEM Announces Informational Meeting Discussing Coastal Resiliency at Quonochontaug Breachway Nov. 18
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
3 years 4 weeks ago
Monday, November 15, 2021 - 10:15
Boston.com — How a confrontation on a Rhode Island beach led to a libel lawsuit — and involvement from the ACLU
RI Coastal Access News
3 years 4 weeks ago
Monday, November 15, 2021 - 09:19
Adjusting to a New Normal
Ecological Landscape Assn News
3 years 1 month ago
Sunday, November 14, 2021 - 19:09
Visual Storytelling of Florida Gardening
Ecological Landscape Assn News
3 years 1 month ago
Sunday, November 14, 2021 - 19:07
Feathers Everywhere
Ecological Landscape Assn News
3 years 1 month ago
Sunday, November 14, 2021 - 19:04
Ways to Improve Your Nutrition and Health During the Offseason
Ecological Landscape Assn News
3 years 1 month ago
Sunday, November 14, 2021 - 19:04
SUPPLY AND DEMAND OF NATIVE SPECIES
Ecological Landscape Assn News
3 years 1 month ago
Sunday, November 14, 2021 - 19:02
Gleanings from Headline News – November 2021
Ecological Landscape Assn News
3 years 1 month ago
Sunday, November 14, 2021 - 18:16
ELA News – November 2021
Ecological Landscape Assn News
3 years 1 month ago
Sunday, November 14, 2021 - 18:08
RICAC Emerges & Treonze Wins Big
Fish Wrap Writer
3 years 1 month ago
Sunday, November 14, 2021 - 16:58
Old Harbor – New Shoreham
Trails & Walks in Rhode Island
3 years 1 month ago
Sunday, November 14, 2021 - 11:23

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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.