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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.

Matthew T. Mangino: Prisons as refuge and comfort
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 11 months ago
Friday, May 3, 2019 - 08:56
New R.I. education commissioner gets an earful from parents
Providence Journal Education
4 years 11 months ago
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 20:34
My Turn: Mike Stenhouse: Government unions cost us dearly
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 11 months ago
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 18:21
Letter: Marcia R. Lieberman: Prostitution should remain illegal in Rhode Island
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 18:17
Letter: Ann Anesta: Learn from another town's foolish budget cuts
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 18:17
Updated Nest Assignment List Now Available!
RI Osprey Monitoring
4 years 11 months ago
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 14:58
The Dirt – May 3, 2019: Spring Festival, Soil pH, MGs in Action
URI Master Gardener Program
4 years 11 months ago
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 14:55
On the Road with Rick Holmes: Trump and Lee on Monument Avenue
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 11 months ago
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 13:44
Jane’s Walk – May 3-5, 2019
Greater City Providence
4 years 11 months ago
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 12:34
Civil-rights icon Ruby Bridges to give Rhode Island College commencement address
Providence Journal Education
4 years 11 months ago
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 12:21
Southside Community Land Trust’s Rare & Unusual Plant Sale – May 18-19, 2019
Greater City Providence
4 years 11 months ago
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 12:09
Climate change and innovation
Prosperity for Rhode Island
4 years 11 months ago
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 11:16
Test Post
URI Master Gardener Program
4 years 11 months ago
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 11:04
Costs of Massachusetts gas explosions continues to soar
Providence Journal Environment
4 years 11 months ago
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 10:00
Networx: Year round landscaping ideas
Providence Journal Garden News
4 years 11 months ago
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 08:52
May is Bike Month!
RI Bicycle Coalition
4 years 11 months ago
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 18:54
My Turn: Gerry Goldstein: What the madam told the mayor
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 11 months ago
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 18:16
Letter: Paul Bacon: Havlicek will live on in Celtics fans' hearts
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 18:14
Letter: Mark P. Small: The art and science of dentistry deserve respect
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 18:14
Letter: Robert Hofmann: State should help those hurt by war on pot
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 18:14

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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.