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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.

How to Modernize Our Electricity Grid
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
5 years 8 months ago
Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 14:31
Drought-Tolerant? Think Native!
Ecological Landscape Assn News
5 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 21:40
Drought Tolerant Container Gardens, Beyond the Traditional
Ecological Landscape Assn News
5 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 21:39
Osprey Monitor Luncheon: Save the Date!
RI Osprey Monitoring
5 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 21:39
The Perennial Borders
Ecological Landscape Assn News
5 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 21:38
Top Ten Ways to Screw Up an Installed Meadow
Ecological Landscape Assn News
5 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 21:37
Facing Drought? Rip Up Your Lawn!
Ecological Landscape Assn News
5 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 21:36
Eco-Answers from the Pros: Mulched Leaves and Drought
Ecological Landscape Assn News
5 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 21:34
Eco-Answers from the Pros: Controlling Pond Weeds
Ecological Landscape Assn News
5 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 20:57
Mid-Summer Check-In
RI Osprey Monitoring
5 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 20:41
Sign up for a RIEEA Committee – Now!
RI Environmental Education Assn News
5 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 19:37
Weekly Watershed Water Quality
Clean Ocean Access News
5 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 15:38
Road Trip to Bruges & Back
Rose Journal
5 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 15:08
Nonprofit review: EnergySage for solar
Energy Consumers Bulletin
5 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 15:05
Nonprofit review: EnergySage for solar
Energy Consumers Bulletin
5 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 15:05
Nonprofit review: EnergySage for solar
Energy Consumers Bulletin
5 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 15:05
CRMC Adopts BeachSAMP
Beach SAMP News
5 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 14:42
At 'Beach Office Hours' Stop in Narragansett, Raimondo Announces State Commitment to 'Tackle Plastics'
RI Governor Press Releases
5 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 13:15
CT’s natural gas expansion plan well behind schedule
Acadia Center News ( - July 2020)
5 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 11:17
In Sites Unseen, Frickel examines legacies of our industrial past
Brown University Environmental Studies
5 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 11:12

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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.