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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.

Get the most out of your air conditioner
Providence Journal Garden News
3 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 20:50
More Americans signed contracts to buy homes in June
Providence Journal Garden News
3 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 20:50
Real Estate Q&A: Can landlord keep deposit?
Providence Journal Garden News
3 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 20:50
Test Drive: Superbly performing, comfortable 2020 CLS 450
Providence Journal Garden News
3 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 20:49
Some R.I. parents, wary of classrooms and dissatisfied with distance learning, plan to homeschool their kids this fall
Providence Journal Education
3 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 20:04
Some R.I. parents, wary of classrooms and dissatisfied with distance learning, plan to homeschool their kids
Providence Journal Education
3 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 18:26
Brown professor cherished his time with John Lewis
Providence Journal Education
3 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 16:37
My Turn: Robb Dimmick: A Rhode trip through the Black experience
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 16:20
My Turn: J. Michael Levesque: It’s time to support our police
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 16:20
Heating Up
Blithewold Garden Blog
3 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 16:11
Produce in the Park Program Helps Those In Need In Fox Point
Partnership for Providence Parks News
3 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 14:19
Produce in the Park Program Helps Those In Need In Fox Point
Partnership for Providence Parks News
3 years 8 months ago
Monday, August 10, 2020 - 22:04
New Freshwater Fishing Regulations Take Effect Sunday
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
3 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 14:15
Galilee fisherman nets $2,000 shark transmitter but not the shark
Providence Journal Environment
3 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 13:12
Should I send my child back to school? This is the latest science on coronavirus and kids
Providence Journal Education
3 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 12:54
Deer Hunting Permits Available Starting Saturday, August 1
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
3 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 11:45
We Must Protect More of Our Ocean
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
3 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 11:26
In Memoriam: Sigrid Hewitt
RI Wild Plant Society News
3 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 10:08
Mangino column: The Confrontation Clause and the return of jury trials
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 09:47
The Secret Lives of Words column: The Space Force, Rome’s legions, and undies
Providence Journal Commentary
3 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 09:08

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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.