You are here

Rhode Island Environmental News

Latest News

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.

Report: R.I. ranks 3rd in New England for teacher salaries
Providence Journal Education
4 years 11 months ago
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 11:36
Red Cross Dividends
Blithewold Garden Blog
4 years 11 months ago
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 11:35
Can Newport target housing to the ‘young’?
Providence Journal Education
4 years 11 months ago
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 10:43
(No heading)
Providence Journal Education
4 years 11 months ago
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 09:34
My Turn: Ed Duffy: My friend John Havlicek
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 11 months ago
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 09:26
My Turn: Nancy DeNuccio: Politics stand in way of new Narragansett library
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 11 months ago
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 09:08
Letters: Eric Hall: Blatant conflicts of interest are permitted in R.I.
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 23:31
Letters: Roberta Goldsmith: Organized religion, morality are not necessarily linked
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 23:31
Letters: Jack O'Rourke: How much influence did the Russians really have?
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 23:31
My Turn: Clay Johnson: Speaker proves he's no firewall
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 11 months ago
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 23:21
My Turn: Michael Curran: Friars care about souls at PC
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 11 months ago
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 17:44
Letter: Jane S. Nelson: Boston merger would make me abandon Miriam
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 17:43
Letter: Mary Ellen Lukasiewicz: Too many children in Rhode Island are obese
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 17:43
Letter: Tyler Rowley: Oppose 13 Catholics for backing sinful abortion
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 17:43
Letter: Joan Tomaszewski: Housing project's approval sinks my hope in Hope
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 17:42
Cutting carbon out of your daily commute
Energy Consumers Bulletin
4 years 11 months ago
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 15:41
DEM, Partners Announce Recipients of Farm Energy Grants
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
4 years 11 months ago
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 15:00
OurTransportationFuture.org: New Broad-Based Advocacy Effort Boosts Regional Initiative to Reduce Vehicle Pollution
Acadia Center News ( - July 2020)
4 years 11 months ago
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 11:07
DEM Announces Freshwater Fishing Workshops
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
4 years 11 months ago
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 10:45
RI's new education commissioner wants to work with Providence, not take it over
Providence Journal Education
4 years 11 months ago
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 09:34

Pages

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.