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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.

Trash Tutorial: Collection type determines your container
Providence Journal Garden News
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, August 2, 2019 - 20:51
Top clutter culprits in each room
Providence Journal Garden News
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, August 2, 2019 - 20:51
Custom wood kennels, memory foam beds: The wild world of modern pet furniture
Providence Journal Garden News
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, August 2, 2019 - 20:50
Ask a Designer: Outdoor kitchens keep evolving
Providence Journal Garden News
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, August 2, 2019 - 20:50
How to buy a rug you'll love — and keep it looking great
Providence Journal Garden News
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, August 2, 2019 - 20:50
Letter: Louis Sperling: Does Trump really care about working people?
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, August 2, 2019 - 17:20
Letter: Ronald C. Markoff: Consolidate to make R.I. far more efficient
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, August 2, 2019 - 17:20
Letter: Donna DeLeo Bruno: Papers ran different headlines about Mueller
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, August 2, 2019 - 17:20
Letter: Mary Evans: Mueller found plenty of Trump corruption
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, August 2, 2019 - 17:20
My Turn: Sally Hubbard: Competition key to thriving internet
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, August 2, 2019 - 17:20
RIDOH Recommends Re-opening Four Beaches; Closing Two Beaches for Swimming
RI Health Department - Beach Monitoring Press Releases
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, August 2, 2019 - 16:30
Old and New Favorites for the Summer Garden
Blithewold Garden Blog
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, August 2, 2019 - 14:16
Wisdom in Arctic Waters: Pioneering geoscientist to unearth secrets buried in sediment
Brown University Environmental Studies
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, August 2, 2019 - 12:15
Matthew T. Mangino: Risk assessment under scrutiny in criminal justice system
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, August 2, 2019 - 11:47
Barrington middle school student wins appeal over suspension for Parkland discussion
Providence Journal Education
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, August 2, 2019 - 11:40
RIDOH Recommends Closing Conimicut Point Beach for Swimming
RI Health Department - Beach Monitoring Press Releases
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, August 2, 2019 - 11:30
Big Oil Can’t Shirk Its Responsibility to Communities
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, August 2, 2019 - 09:42
As Baker Admin Seeks to Allow Dirty Fuels to Qualify for Renewable Energy Subsidies, Clean Energy Advocates and Scientists Demand More Transparency and Accountability
Acadia Center News ( - July 2020)
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, August 2, 2019 - 03:00
The Simpson brothers: salt pond pirates and dynamite fishermen
Fish Wrap Writer
4 years 8 months ago
Thursday, August 1, 2019 - 21:08
Gardening: Potted plants that thrive in summer, keep during winter
Providence Journal Garden News
4 years 8 months ago
Thursday, August 1, 2019 - 20:50

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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.