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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.

Letter: Raymond L Tetrault: Build solar panels instead of strengthening the military
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 3 months ago
Saturday, December 7, 2019 - 15:15
Letter: Joe Lorenz: Evildoers attempting a coup will eventually pay price
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 3 months ago
Saturday, December 7, 2019 - 15:13
Letter: E. Pierre Morenon: Problem with disposing waste makes nuclear a poor choice
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 3 months ago
Saturday, December 7, 2019 - 15:13
Alan Rosenberg: Remembering reporter Jim Rhea
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 3 months ago
Saturday, December 7, 2019 - 09:20
Gardening: Think small if you want to plant your Christmas tree
Providence Journal Garden News
4 years 3 months ago
Friday, December 6, 2019 - 19:50
Trash Tutorial: Learn the truth about trash bags
Providence Journal Garden News
4 years 3 months ago
Friday, December 6, 2019 - 19:50
Style at Home: 5 favorite hostess tips for the holidays
Providence Journal Garden News
4 years 3 months ago
Friday, December 6, 2019 - 19:50
Style at Home: The season of gifting
Providence Journal Garden News
4 years 3 months ago
Friday, December 6, 2019 - 19:50
Ready for the new neutral room color? It's black.
Providence Journal Garden News
4 years 3 months ago
Friday, December 6, 2019 - 19:50
Bring spring indoors early — very early — by forcing bulbs
Providence Journal Garden News
4 years 3 months ago
Friday, December 6, 2019 - 19:50
Report: After easing slightly, nation's inventory of for-sale houses may tighten again in 2020
Providence Journal Garden News
4 years 3 months ago
Friday, December 6, 2019 - 19:50
Farmer Focus Group at NOFA Mass Winter Conference: Exploring Novel Approaches to Farm Labor
Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership
4 years 3 months ago
Friday, December 6, 2019 - 17:44
BCC Sustainable Agriculture Program Seeking Businesses for Internships
Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership
4 years 3 months ago
Friday, December 6, 2019 - 17:17
A Visit to The Farm at Raven Brook
Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership
4 years 3 months ago
Friday, December 6, 2019 - 16:29
Our Turn: George Nee, Patrick J. Quinn and Nancy Iadeluca: Make businesses pay for health care
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 3 months ago
Friday, December 6, 2019 - 15:32
Letter: Jim Baldwin: I wish Rhode Island politicians could start trading places
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 3 months ago
Friday, December 6, 2019 - 15:30
Letter: Jim Manchester: Columnist who defends Trump acts as Putin's puppet
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 3 months ago
Friday, December 6, 2019 - 15:26
Letter: Richard Moore: Yankees' fans happy to see PawSox go to Worcester
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 3 months ago
Friday, December 6, 2019 - 15:24
Letter: Bob Sweeney: Reward for serving others will be a happy holiday
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 3 months ago
Friday, December 6, 2019 - 15:23
With Shotgun Deer Hunting Season Opening Tomorrow, DEM Reminds State Management Area Users to Wear 500 Inches of Solid, Daylight Fluorescent Orange for Safety Reasons
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
4 years 3 months ago
Friday, December 6, 2019 - 14:45

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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.