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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: Dorothy Shippee: Crazy R.I. system hits us for other people's tolls
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 8 months ago
Sunday, July 14, 2019 - 18:39
URI's 'Shark Camp' connects city teens with ocean environment
Providence Journal Environment
4 years 8 months ago
Sunday, July 14, 2019 - 14:55
My Turn: Betty J. Cotter: When diseases, not shots, were feared
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 8 months ago
Saturday, July 13, 2019 - 17:21
Letter: David M. Powers Sr.: Senators cheat constituents by running for president
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 8 months ago
Saturday, July 13, 2019 - 17:20
Letter: Ed Hawk: Cowardly and violent thugs have no right to brutality
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 8 months ago
Saturday, July 13, 2019 - 17:20
Letter: Richard Glover: Unintelligible verbiage won't solve school problem
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 8 months ago
Saturday, July 13, 2019 - 17:20
Letter: George Burman: July 4 celebration in D.C. designed to instill fear
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 8 months ago
Saturday, July 13, 2019 - 17:20
Letter: Jordan Liner: The number-one issue for R.I. is public education
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 8 months ago
Saturday, July 13, 2019 - 17:20
Letter: Greg Hall: Migrants are coming here because we need labor
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 8 months ago
Saturday, July 13, 2019 - 17:20
My Turn: Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats run race of inauthenticity
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 8 months ago
Saturday, July 13, 2019 - 17:20
My Turn: Froma Harrop: Playtime over for party's radicals
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 8 months ago
Saturday, July 13, 2019 - 17:20
My Turn: Ken Block: System benefits only speaker and his cronies
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 8 months ago
Saturday, July 13, 2019 - 17:20
Alan Rosenberg: Studying what's in our email
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 8 months ago
Saturday, July 13, 2019 - 10:20
Trash Tutorial:
Providence Journal Garden News
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 12, 2019 - 20:51
Gardening: Flowering plants that love to spread
Providence Journal Garden News
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 12, 2019 - 20:50
Style at Home: Pillow talk: What do your throws say?
Providence Journal Garden News
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 12, 2019 - 20:50
Staging is the most significant action a seller can take
Providence Journal Garden News
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 12, 2019 - 20:50
More mainstream lies
Prosperity for Rhode Island
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 12, 2019 - 18:47
My Turn: Tim Lemire: R.I. children of divorce deserve better
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 12, 2019 - 17:32
Letter: Ed Arage: A wise old bird was a good example for students
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 8 months ago
Friday, July 12, 2019 - 17:28

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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.