The Providential Gardener

Happy World Soil Day!

When you woke up today, chances are you didn't know that December 5, 2014, is designated as World Soil Day. So now you know! There are so many "Days" set aside to remember all sorts of things. Everyone (in the... Read more →

Buy Nothing Day Winter Coat Exchange ~ Friday, November 28, 2014

If you have a coat to donate, here are places to drop it off. More info is HERE. Download this Buy Nothing Day wintercoats poster in pdf. Read more →

URI Sustainability Week Events ~ October 14-16, 2014

The URI Cooperative Extension is celebrating its 100th anniversary next week, Tuesday, October 14th - Thursday, October 16th, by offering a variety of daytime and evening activities! All events are free and open to the public. To RSVP and for... Read more →

October is Energy Awareness Month

The heating season will soon be here... Check out the energy-saving tips at National Grid. You will find ways to save on heating/cooling, water heating, and lighting over the long haul. Find out more about insulation, too. The sidebar has... Read more →

Apeiron Sustainability Living Festival & Clean Energy Expo ~ June 6 & 7, 2009

We are fortunate to have The Apeiron Institute for Sustainable Living in Rhode Island, and we are even more fortunate that they have a Sustainable Living Festival coming up in Coventry, RI, on June 6 & 7, 2009. This is... Read more →

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 →

Sustainable Sakonnet

Happy New Year! I love starting fresh at the beginning of the year, and The Providential Gardener has high hopes for the future of the garden called Rhode Island that we all share and tend. There's a lot of work... Read more →

Rhode Island Real Food Coalition ~ A New Statewide Campus Initiative

The Sustainable Food Initiative (SuFI) at Brown University is well organized and active on several fronts. I think these excerpts from their November 19th, 2007, email will interest readers of The Providential Gardener, especially those who are connected with other... Read more →

Transportation: Invest in Our Future -- A New Vision for the 21st Century

From the Environment Council of Rhode Island: News of A Recent Report on Transportation: Transportation: Invest in Our Future -- A New Vision for the 21st Century Global economic competition, metropolitan congestion, and global climate change are among the new... Read more →

How about Moving U.S. Agriculture back East?

Katherine Brown of Southside Community Land Trust sent the Providential Gardener the link to a September 22, 2007, article, "Let the East Bloom Again," which argues that the Eastern United States is much more suited to agriculture than the West... Read more →