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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.

Opinion/Miller and Linde: Staff layoffs at RIC jeopardize its mission
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 5 months ago
Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 17:20
Opinion/Letters: Supreme Court fight; fractured U.S.
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
3 years 5 months ago
Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 17:20
Opinion/Pisciotta: A crisis is the perfect time to chart a new course
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 5 months ago
Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 17:20
Climate Change Is the Threat of Our Lifetime
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
3 years 5 months ago
Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 15:13
October Inspiration
Blithewold Garden Blog
3 years 5 months ago
Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 15:02
Providence water utility now getting all its power from solar
Providence Journal Environment
3 years 5 months ago
Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 14:47
Raimondo Administration Announces Over $3M Awarded in Take It Outside Initiative
RI Commerce Corporation Press Releases
3 years 5 months ago
Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 12:45
States Stepping Up to Combat Toxic Forever Chemicals
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
3 years 5 months ago
Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 12:08
Music, Masks, & Mayhem! 10/29
RI Environmental Education Assn News
3 years 5 months ago
Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 09:37
When you should tip a handyman
Providence Journal Garden News
3 years 5 months ago
Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 08:33
Study: Solar projects driving down home values in R.I. suburbs
Providence Journal Environment
3 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 23:21
Pope Francis 2020: On Laudato Si’ and Fratelli Tutti
Catholic Ecology
3 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 21:16
Opinion/Goldstein: Keeping faith with America – or not
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 17:20
Opinion/Malysz and Milos: Science can lead the way for the R.I. economy
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 17:20
CCRI to continue holding most classes online in spring semester
Providence Journal Education
3 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 17:04
Command center staff ease fears, help R.I. schools navigate COVID-19 threat
Providence Journal Education
3 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 16:59
Spooky Streets House Decorating Contest - Register to Enter by October 23rd
Friends of Brown Street Park News
3 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 16:53
Opinion/Rakatansky: CDC interference strikes at heart of medical ethics
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 13:25
Opinion/Maggiacomo: How quickly they forgot the McCarran-Walter Act
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 13:24
ECRI Oct 2020 Monthly Meeting
Environment Council of RI
3 years 5 months ago
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 13:05

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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.