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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.

Letters: Judith Zimmer: Pseudo-Democrats, not moderates, rule R.I.
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
5 years 11 hours ago
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 22:20
Gardening: A tree, well pruned, is a thing of beauty
Providence Journal Garden News
5 years 12 hours ago
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 20:50
At Home: A new modern home has room for everyone — but not necessarily every single thing
Providence Journal Garden News
5 years 12 hours ago
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 20:50
Power-hour projects to get organized
Providence Journal Garden News
5 years 12 hours ago
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 20:50
Style at Home: A house isn't a home without art on the walls
Providence Journal Garden News
5 years 12 hours ago
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 20:50
10 ways to refresh your kitchen if you can't do a full reno
Providence Journal Garden News
5 years 12 hours ago
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 20:50
The household items everyone should have before turning 30
Providence Journal Garden News
5 years 12 hours ago
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 20:50
Trash Tutorial: How is your municipality doing over the long haul?
Providence Journal Garden News
5 years 12 hours ago
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 20:50
Another Lifeline for Rhode Island’s Landfill
Clean Ocean Access News
5 years 19 hours ago
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 14:28
Alan Rosenberg: Our environment writer, and our forum on climate change
Providence Journal Environment
5 years 20 hours ago
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 13:27
A Shared Sense of Humor
Blithewold Garden Blog
5 years 20 hours ago
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 13:06
Maine to Study Toxic “Forever” Chemicals
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
5 years 20 hours ago
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 12:42
Bulb Security
Blithewold Garden Blog
5 years 21 hours ago
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 12:05
My Turn: Arlene Violet: My perspective on the closing of the Ladd Center
Providence Journal Commentary
5 years 21 hours ago
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 11:41
The Dirt – March 29, 2019: Healthy Gardening, Pest Alert, Hotline Tip of the Week
URI Master Gardener Program
5 years 22 hours ago
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 11:35
My Turn: Mary Ann Sorrentino: Kraft deserves his humiliation
Providence Journal Commentary
5 years 22 hours ago
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 11:26
My Turn: James A. Diossa: Great women stand on shoulders of Elizabeth Buffum Chace
Providence Journal Commentary
5 years 22 hours ago
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 11:20
April Anticipation
Blithewold Garden Blog
5 years 22 hours ago
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 11:11
Matthew T. Mangino: Mueller Report has nothing to celebrate
Providence Journal Commentary
5 years 23 hours ago
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 10:26
April 10-12: IBES Presents "Blue Sky: Agility and the Possible in a Warming World"
Brown University Environmental Studies
5 years 23 hours ago
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 10:25

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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.