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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.

Real Estate Q&A: Knowledge is power when it comes to purchase contracts
Providence Journal Garden News
5 years 1 month ago
Friday, February 15, 2019 - 21:30
Fishermen playing Whack-A-Mole, Alberto Knie’s wisdom & another Block Island soul passed on too soon
Fish Wrap Writer
5 years 1 month ago
Friday, February 15, 2019 - 19:01
Raimondo Directs Rhode Island Flags to Fly at Half-Staff in Honor of Former First Lady Joyce Anne Noel
RI Governor Press Releases
5 years 1 month ago
Friday, February 15, 2019 - 18:00
4 R.I. teachers to attend national 'teach-in' protesting family separations at border
Providence Journal Education
5 years 1 month ago
Friday, February 15, 2019 - 16:35
The Birds and the Trees: Managing the Urban Forest for Wildlife
Ecological Landscape Assn News
5 years 1 month ago
Friday, February 15, 2019 - 16:31
What’s New with Drive Green Webinar Overview
Energy Consumers Bulletin
5 years 1 month ago
Friday, February 15, 2019 - 16:00
Ten Reasons To Make Hand Built Three-Dimensional Models
Ecological Landscape Assn News
5 years 1 month ago
Friday, February 15, 2019 - 15:09
Greening Greenfield
Ecological Landscape Assn News
5 years 1 month ago
Friday, February 15, 2019 - 14:59
Sustainable Stormwater Using Bioretention: Engineering Better Water Quality
Ecological Landscape Assn News
5 years 1 month ago
Friday, February 15, 2019 - 14:45
He caught the natural history bug
Narwhal's Left Tooth
5 years 1 month ago
Friday, February 15, 2019 - 14:33
Rhode Island joins multi-state task force to plan the electrical grid of the future
RI Office of Energy Resources News
5 years 1 month ago
Friday, February 15, 2019 - 14:00
Which schools have off, and when, on February vacation week
Providence Journal Education
5 years 1 month ago
Friday, February 15, 2019 - 12:04
Matthew T. Mangino: The southern border a ‘National Emergency’
Providence Journal Commentary
5 years 1 month ago
Friday, February 15, 2019 - 11:19
Letter: William Braden, M.D.: Abortion bill would only protect the status quo
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
5 years 1 month ago
Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 23:00
Letter: Richard J. August: Raimondo makes R.I. a petri dish of progressivism
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
5 years 1 month ago
Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 23:00
Letter: Marc J. Seifer: Raising rates would keep popular YMCA facility open
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
5 years 1 month ago
Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 23:00
My Turn: Meredith Turner Chapman: Teach girls to appreciate themselves
Providence Journal Commentary
5 years 1 month ago
Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 23:00
New on DVD Feb. 19: 'Robin Hood' steals from past works to create rich film
Providence Journal Garden News
5 years 1 month ago
Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 21:30
Tiny satellites reveal water dynamics in thousands of northern lakes
Brown University Environmental Studies
5 years 1 month ago
Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 19:15
Entwined earns good reviews!
RI Wild Plant Society News
5 years 1 month ago
Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 16:47

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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.