So much is happening in Rhode Island that it won't all fit on Earth Day (April 22) and Arbor Day (April 25). You'll find dozens of opportunities to pitch in, clean up, and plant roots into May in What Grows On in Rhode Island!
As you drive around town and out into the country, as you take walks, jog, or ride the bus or train, look out the window and notice GARBAGE, LITTER, BOTTLES, CIGARETTE BUTTS everywhere ..... or maybe not, because the neighborhood residents pick up after themselves or don't throw all this stuff around in the first place. I'm afraid you'll see lots of places that could use some tidying, so join your neighbors and friends, get out there, and clean up a park or roadside or stream. There's plenty of work to do. Here are two photos of a Rhode Island river, taken in November 2008. The first is downstream, the second, upstream. Out in the country, you think? You'd be wrong. It's the Moshassuck, next to I-95 between exits 25 and 26, in back of the old Shaw's Plaza (for Rhode Islanders, in back of and a bit north of where Sears "used to be").
If you were there, you'd hear the highway, but downstream would sure look like the deep woods. Upstream, you'd know you were near messy folks, though. Click on the upstream photo to get a better look at the trash that gets stuck going through the culvert under the road over the Moshassuck. The trash is much worse today after the winter storms than this photo shows. So find a little time to pick some trash up, and enjoy the cleanery-greenery of spring.
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