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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.

IBES Seeks Postdoctoral Research Associate to Study Coupled Natural and Human Systems of the Arctic
Brown University Environmental Studies
4 years 11 months ago
Monday, April 15, 2019 - 09:57
Our Turn: Charles Reppucci, Gary Furtado and Maribeth Williamson: Keeping care in Rhode Island
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 11 months ago
Sunday, April 14, 2019 - 22:20
Letter: Cheryl Jones-Head: Trump tax cuts harmed our families, economy
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Sunday, April 14, 2019 - 22:20
Letter: David P. Whitman: Journal to blame for everything speaker does
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Sunday, April 14, 2019 - 22:20
Letter: Rick DeBlois: Bigger is not better in terms of health care
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Sunday, April 14, 2019 - 22:20
Letter: Vickie Maxson: Cartoon was as tacky as what it lampooned
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Sunday, April 14, 2019 - 22:20
Letter: Joanne Horner: Substitute teachers deserve more money for hard work
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Sunday, April 14, 2019 - 22:20
My Turn: Betty J. Cotter: In the cellphone's gaze
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 11 months ago
Saturday, April 13, 2019 - 22:23
My Turn: Froma Harrop: Is the U.S. full? Wrong question
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 11 months ago
Saturday, April 13, 2019 - 22:23
My Turn: Victor Davis Hanson: Eating up the middle class
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 11 months ago
Saturday, April 13, 2019 - 22:23
My Turn: Leonard Lardaro: R.I. should analyze its spending
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 11 months ago
Saturday, April 13, 2019 - 22:23
Letters: Elliot Ciora: If only I had been a crooked guidance counselor
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Saturday, April 13, 2019 - 22:20
Letters: Alan Sondheim: Real creativity challenges Providence's status quo
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Saturday, April 13, 2019 - 22:20
Letters: Art Corey: Preparing for war is costly and futile effort
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Saturday, April 13, 2019 - 22:20
Letters: Richard J. August: Legislature should mull gun control carefully
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Saturday, April 13, 2019 - 22:20
Letters: Steve Artigas: Thanks for two editorials probing troubling issues
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Saturday, April 13, 2019 - 22:20
Letters: Michael Berry: Technology means the end of major wars
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Saturday, April 13, 2019 - 22:20
Letters: The Rev. Richard A. Bucci: Ironic juxtaposition of news stories in paper
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 11 months ago
Saturday, April 13, 2019 - 22:20
RIFGC Life Member Group Luncheon
RI Federation of Garden Clubs News
4 years 11 months ago
Saturday, April 13, 2019 - 10:34
Alan Rosenberg: The Journal and the Associated Press
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 11 months ago
Saturday, April 13, 2019 - 10:20

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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.