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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: Jerome A. Haberek: Hero's tribute to chaplains was greatly appreciated
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 9 months ago
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 17:43
Letter: Jean Farmanian Ricci: Socialism will not cure ailments of Rhode Island
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 9 months ago
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 17:43
Trinity Square takes it to the streets
Southside Community Land Trust
4 years 9 months ago
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 17:29
RIDOH Recommends Closing Grinell's Beach, Opening Spring Lake
RI Health Department - Beach Monitoring Press Releases
4 years 9 months ago
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 16:30
Raimondo Signs Historic Bill Protecting Reproductive Healthcare in Rhode Island
RI Governor Press Releases
4 years 9 months ago
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 16:30
My Turn: Vanita Gupta: Equality Act would crack down on bigotry
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 9 months ago
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 15:49
Amtrak To Own Tracks in Florida, and RIDOT Gets a Grant
RI Association of Railroad Passengers News
4 years 9 months ago
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 15:19
Our Turn: Kendra Anderson, Paul Roselli and Kate Schapira: Energy center would hurt our ecosystem
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 9 months ago
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 14:30
R.I.'s new Education Commissioner decries bureaucracy, fatalism in Providence schools | Audio
Providence Journal Education
4 years 9 months ago
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 14:21
Warwick students march on City Hall to protest budget cuts
Providence Journal Education
4 years 9 months ago
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 14:12
Providence Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission Meeting – June 19, 2019
Greater City Providence
4 years 9 months ago
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 12:53
June 11, 2019 – Volgistics
URI Master Gardener Program
4 years 9 months ago
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 11:09
May 17-18, 2019 Portsmouth Annual Flower Show
RI Federation of Garden Clubs News
4 years 9 months ago
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 10:03
DEM Announces Summertime Charity Events to be Held at State Parks
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
4 years 9 months ago
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 09:15
Kevin McNamara: Tony Romo, former NFL great, TV broadcaster, living his dream
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 9 months ago
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 - 23:19
Lawyer for ex-Portsmouth High football coach blasts report on student's suicide
Providence Journal Education
4 years 9 months ago
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 - 19:52
R.I.'s new Education Commissioner: Rally community toward same initiative | Audio
Providence Journal Education
4 years 9 months ago
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 - 19:45
Gathering Seaweed
Rose Journal
4 years 9 months ago
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 - 18:41
My Turn: Mackubin Thomas Owens: U.S. confronts China's provocations at sea
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 9 months ago
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 - 17:51
Letter: Angela Ryding: Relief that hotel took down portraits of felon
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 9 months ago
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 - 17:48

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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.