The Providential Gardener

Rhode Island's Eco-Blogging Scene: PostCarbon Rhode Island

This morning I heard from PostCarbon Rhode Island, a new blog that entered the world just three days after 2008, on January 3. It's a great website with info on efforts to deal with energy and natural resource issues locally... Read more →

Visit What Grows On in Rhode Island!

What Grows On in Rhode Island is your personal assistant for environmental news. See what's "growing on" locally and do your part! Read more →

What Grows On in Rhode Island ~ Mid October 2007

Don't forget to check What Grows On in Rhode Island ~ a sister blog to Providential Gardener that is a kind of newswire service, publishing press releases and meeting announcements I receive of upcoming events. You can send environmental event... Read more →

Keeping Up with Environmental News in Rhode Island

We are lucky in Rhode Island to have an increasing number of dedicated individuals and groups that watch out for our environment in one way or another. And they are producing some great online publications available to anyone who wants... Read more →

What Grows On ~ September 13 ~ 16

How to Keep up With What's Growing On... Remember to check What Grows On in Rhode Island regularly for press releases and detailed announcements about upcoming environmental events in Rhode Island. Announcements are posted as they are received. Zip over... Read more →

Urban Stormwater Retrofit Practices Manual Published

From the Center for Watershed Protection in Ellicott City, Maryland: The Center has released the Latest Manual in the Urban Subwatershed Restoration Manual Series. Until now, no definitive guidance has been available on the art and science of urban retrofitting.... Read more →

North Main Street Project: An Example of Residents Shaping Their Neighborhood

One reason for haphazard, ugly, people-unfriendly, and/or environmentally unsound development is the absence of neighborhood residents in town and city planning processes. Nobody thinks about what it's going to be like to LIVE near the results of development or redevelopment.... Read more →

What's Going Down on the Farm

Rhode Island Farmways has wagon loads of things to do this summer. Their calendar lists events such as therapeutic horseback riding and many concerts at Rhode Island farms and vineyards, which are increasingly the venue of choice for summer outdoor... Read more →

Ticks

I was looking over recent articles in the Providence Journal tonight, and I'd like to highlight a couple of them in separate posts from the Projo Digest series I started a few weeks ago. I suppose you might like it... Read more →

Count the Butterflies in Rhode Island!

Here are the details on how to participate in the upcoming Rhode Island Butterfly Count, from July Lewis of the Audubon Society of Rhode Island.... North American Butterfly Association (NABA) - Butterfly Count What is it? The North American Butterfly... Read more →