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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: Steve Kass: Ridiculous criticism of Kraft by Commentary writer
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 18:01
Letter: Barbara Fischer Pelletier: Exhibit helps us see Memorial Day's meaning
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 18:01
Letter: George Burman: Is Trump trading our homeland defense for wall?
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 18:01
Land Access group continues to break new ground
Southside Community Land Trust
4 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 16:53
Pioneering Higher Ground: Green Roof Lessons for Planting Design
Ecological Landscape Assn News
4 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 14:39
Proactive Weeding of Our Gardens of the Future
Ecological Landscape Assn News
4 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 14:38
Providence Bike to Work Day – May 17, 2019
Greater City Providence
4 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 13:45
“Every parcel has promise”- Restoration in the Urban Habitat
Ecological Landscape Assn News
4 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 13:26
Documenting the Spontaneous Flora of New York City with EcoFlora
Ecological Landscape Assn News
4 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 13:19
Book Review: Cultivating the Designer’s Mind
Ecological Landscape Assn News
4 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 13:18
Friday: Celebrate Bikes on Your Way to Work in These 3 Rhode Island Cities
RI Bicycle Coalition
4 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 10:26
The Connecticut Bottle Bill Needs Our Help
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
4 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 10:13
What They're Saying: Gov. Raimondo Announces Womazetta Jones as her Nomination for New Secretary of Health and Human Services
RI Governor Press Releases
4 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 09:45
MY SPRING VISIT TO SNUG HARBOR FARM IN MAINE
Growing with Plants
4 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 07:15
Spring Blooms May, 2019
Ledges and Gardens
4 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 05:41
Elliot’s Ride for Everyone 2019
RI Bicycle Coalition
4 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 00:37
Newport’s Bike to Work Day
RI Bicycle Coalition
4 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 00:20
Elliot’s Ride for Everyone 2019
Bike Newport RI -- Rack & Roll Blog
4 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 - 20:37
Newport’s Bike to Work Day
Bike Newport RI -- Rack & Roll Blog
4 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 - 20:20
Passing a Vulnerable Road User Bill in RI
RI Bicycle Coalition
4 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 - 19:03

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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.