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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.

Providence students express frustration at condition, management of city schools
Providence Journal Education
4 years 9 months ago
Monday, July 1, 2019 - 21:55
Mercy Woods – Cumberland
Trails & Walks in Rhode Island
4 years 9 months ago
Monday, July 1, 2019 - 20:25
My Turn: Nicholas Bernardo: Providence Schools are ready for change
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 9 months ago
Monday, July 1, 2019 - 17:38
Letter: Lawrence L. Chase: Equality Act mandates unfair, unequal treatment
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 9 months ago
Monday, July 1, 2019 - 17:36
Letter: Susan Casey Cute: Politicians' loyalty to faith known only to God
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 9 months ago
Monday, July 1, 2019 - 17:36
My Turn: James A. Kadamus: R.I. should resist running city schools
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 9 months ago
Monday, July 1, 2019 - 15:11
My Turn: Froma Harrop: A world of hypertourism
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 9 months ago
Monday, July 1, 2019 - 15:09
My Turn: Daniel F. Harrington: The smile that changed the world
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 9 months ago
Monday, July 1, 2019 - 15:05
My Turn: Victor Davis Hanson: U.S. can stay calm with Iran
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 9 months ago
Monday, July 1, 2019 - 14:57
Weekly Mosquito Advisory
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
4 years 9 months ago
Monday, July 1, 2019 - 10:15
Nature Conservancy releases video detailing innovative salt marsh restoration in R.I.
Providence Journal Environment
4 years 9 months ago
Monday, July 1, 2019 - 09:55
Providence schools crisis: Answers to readers' questions
Providence Journal Education
4 years 9 months ago
Sunday, June 30, 2019 - 19:20
My Turn: David N. Cicilline: Trump's dangerous attack on health care
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 9 months ago
Sunday, June 30, 2019 - 18:08
Letter: Ruth Breindel: Demonizing the people of the city's East Side
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 9 months ago
Sunday, June 30, 2019 - 18:04
Letter: Michael J. DiStefano: Mindless politician unaware her Nazi comments uninformed
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 9 months ago
Sunday, June 30, 2019 - 18:04
Letter: Richard Glover: Column has no place in responsible paper
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 9 months ago
Sunday, June 30, 2019 - 18:04
Fishing is tough but vets are tougher
Fish Wrap Writer
4 years 9 months ago
Sunday, June 30, 2019 - 14:57
Providence school crisis: Answers to readers questions
Providence Journal Education
4 years 9 months ago
Sunday, June 30, 2019 - 12:47
Alan Rosenberg: Why we describe people in court
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 9 months ago
Saturday, June 29, 2019 - 13:36
RIDOH Recommends Re-opening Three Beaches
RI Health Department - Beach Monitoring Press Releases
4 years 9 months ago
Saturday, June 29, 2019 - 11:45

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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.