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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.

MLK Center to Expand Popular Program to Provide Produce Year-Round to Those in Need
ecoRI Food and Farming News
3 years 5 months ago
Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 16:08
Small Game Hunting Season Opens October 17
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
3 years 5 months ago
Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 15:15
Climate Solutions Lab releases guide to climate action for the next U.S. President
Brown University Environmental Studies
3 years 5 months ago
Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 12:37
Volunteers find Rhode Island's rarest turtle at new sites
Narwhal's Left Tooth
3 years 5 months ago
Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 09:53
How to pick the most budget friendly fencing styles
Providence Journal Garden News
3 years 5 months ago
Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 08:03
Opinion/McKenney: There are worse things than losing
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 16:48
’Is it safe to be in school? The answer is yes,’ Gov. Raimondo reassures Rhode Islanders
Providence Journal Education
3 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 16:46
Opinion/Letters: The president’s illness; subsidizing stadiums; mudslinging and interruptions
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
3 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 16:20
Opinion/Delaney: Shedding light on the real Christopher Columbus
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 16:20
DeWitt column: The Midlife Starter Kit
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 15:34
Voting Is a Right – We Must All Fight to Protect It
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
3 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 10:45
Warwick to begin partial return to classrooms for grades K-6
Providence Journal Education
3 years 5 months ago
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 - 22:02
Opinion/Letters: Getting the debate right; law and order; Biden being presidential
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
3 years 5 months ago
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 - 17:42
Master Gardening Leadership Survey
URI Master Gardener Program
3 years 5 months ago
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 - 17:42
Opinion/Mancini and August: Afghan misadventure
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 5 months ago
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 - 16:40
Opinion/Letters: Unbiased column; Douglass in R.I.; Johnston Democrats
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
3 years 5 months ago
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 - 16:40
Opinion/Morse: On dogs and devices
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 5 months ago
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 - 16:39
Opinion/Centracchio: Rhode Island National Guard leads in community support
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 5 months ago
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 - 16:38
Opinion/Mandel: Memo to autumn: You've reddened your last leaf, planted your final pot of mums
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 5 months ago
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 - 16:37
North Providence superintendent blames breakdown in communication for move to distance learning
Providence Journal Education
3 years 5 months ago
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 - 14:17

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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.