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Got clothes you don't want? Need clothes you don't have? Come to our FREE Clothing Swap April 25 at Flatbread Company. buff.ly/ZY06nqQ

It's #401Gives today (on 3/31, rather than 4/01, but I don't make the rules). If you're in Rhode Island, you're deluged with requests for giving. I would encourage you to make a gift today if you haven't. BUT I think you should give a monthly gift. Nonprofits need $ every day, not just giving days

In anticipation of my event Thursday at URI, I had a lovely conversation with Joanna Detz, on drawing inspiration from youth & how to Imagine a “Better World” - ecoRI News ecori.org/drawing-insp...

In Dan McKee’s world, people apparently aren’t allowed to oppose him. Sound like another vindictive leader in Washington?

Nature always wins.

Ethan Shorey, chief editor of The Valley Breeze, announced Wednesday he’s stepping down after 20 years with the publication. “It has been the honor of my life reporting news that matters to people where they (and I) live,” he said on social media.

In today's Tuesday Newsday newsletter: 🐀 Rat poison kills more than rats; 🧊 Low-salt diet prescription for icy roads; Beefing up, RI's mealy-mouthed food-waste ban 💪 buff.ly/j1NNPtZ Never miss a story. Subscribe for free at buff.ly/GLqN59T

In end-stage capitalism, betting on starvation — and war — for profit is a thing.

Duck, duck, bowl, bowl! 🎳 🦆 Come duckpin bowling with us this Saturday, March 7, at Dudek Lanes in Warren to help support Rhode Island environmental journalism @ecorinews.bsky.social Details & tickets available here: www.eventbrite.com/e/journalism...

A Chamber of Commerce opposing taxing rich people? Now I've seen everything.

Today our newsroom welcomes new reporter Jonmaesha Beltran @jonmaesha.bsky.social. She'll be covering transit, food and farming, and sustainability for ecoRI News. Also, this is her first New England winter. Please send a warm welcome — and any news tips (or winter-survival tips!) her way.

If Business Insider is reporting about a general strike, then there probably is one www.businessinsider.com/general-stri...

One year into Trump’s second term, some journalists have been “surprised” by the administration’s organized agenda. But Project 2025 was publicly available. Advocacy groups read it and warned us. The press read it and… 🤷‍♀️ www.readtpa.com/p/this-is-li...

Kansas boasts the biggest ball of twine. Rhode Island? The biggest pile of discarded tires east of the Mississippi. Sounds about right.

I almost didn't send this email because it broke all the cardinal rules of fundraising. But these are extraordinary times. bit.ly/48ZNOZU

This image epitomizes ecoRI News reporter @frankcarini.bsky.social. This photo was taken of Frank on assignment. The man literally will go anywhere and talk to anyone—or creature— for the story. Keep Frank and the rest of our reporters on assignment with a year-end gift @ bit.ly/3N9c6Il

On today, #GivingNewsDay, I'm joining with our board to match your gift to @ecorinews.bsky.social.

This is not #fakenews. The next $2,200 in donations to my nonprofit newsroom @ecorinews.bsky.social will be quadrupled by #Newsmatch and a group of local donors. I keep pinching myself. We've never had a quadruple match. ecori.kindful.com?campaign=138...

Been waiting for this bitumen-soaked shoe to drop:

For at least three hours on Saturday, my hometown of Portsmouth, R.I., got a look at what car-free bike and pedestrian infrastructure might look like at this @bikenewportri.bsky.social event.

My musings on pessimistic optimism and local media on the occasion of @ecorinews.bsky.social 16th birthday.

Those virtuous-looking brown to-go containers look compostable, but they aren't necessarily. Nor are they recyclable. Like most everything these days, it's complicated, so I set out to make sense of it. ecori.org/a-complete-a...

Not great! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/15/s...

Such a quintessential ecoRI News quote: 🗨️ “Your beavers are going to be pissed when they come out tonight." ecori.org/device-allow...

Listen to ecoRI News reporter @robesmith.bsky.social on @ripbs-tpr.bsky.social as he discusses our reporting tracking plastic bottles on their journey from your recycling bin. He details our methods and our discoveries with host @radiostoryteller.bsky.social. thepublicsradio.org/environment/...

Behind the Story: @colleen-cronin.bsky.social‬ joins @kimkalunian.bsky.social‬ + me to discuss recycling violations in Providence. Shoutouts to other great reporting this week 👇https://www.wpri.com/behindthestory/behind-the-story-7-30-25-colleen-cronin-talks-recycling-violations-in-providence/ 

This piece on plastics recycling in Rhode Island is quite illuminating. It’s hard to get real information, and the way this information was gathered was costly and also (thus) not broad, but it’s still good to see that it’s not just “sort it and then let it go to the landfill and be buried anyway”

So far only person has spoken against the project, the rest have been members of the public and environmental groups supporting the project

In Portsmouth tonight: the state EFSB is hosting a public comment at the middle school over the export cables that are planned to go through town

All first-time donations to ecoRI News are tripled thanks to a generous South County couple. ecori.kindful.com?campaign=137... Read this note from our publisher @jodetz.bsky.social about why attracting new donors is so important to our newsroom.

New seal census just dropped. 🦭

Commentary from Steve Alexander, Scott Breen, Scott DeFife, Emily Howe and @jedthorp.bsky.social: A bottle bill is not only good for the environment, it’s good for business, proponents of House bill 6207 write.

Sometimes at my job they let me design stickers.

"History shows that the corrupt system we live under considers the vast majority of us nothing more than a commodity or a consumer. It was built to lift the few at the expense of the many." @frankcarini.bsky.social writes in his latest Frank Take. ecori.org/century-old-...

Here’s a look at my story (featured in today’s paper) about Cumberland, Rhode Island’s monastery trail, which is located about 2 miles from me. Me and Duke spend countless weekends walking here.

This. This is what overthrew the elite enslavers in the 1859s and the robber barons in the 1890s. We need these new papers everywhere.

"We will allow more speech ..." This is rich coming from a company that de-platformed all Canadian news publishers in 2023. about.fb.com/news/2025/01...

Rhode Island DEM will conserve and make publicly available more than 900 acres of forest land in Burrillville following its $1.6 million purchase of the former Boy Scouts property – the agency’s largest single acquisition in a decade. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/02/m...

NEW: I reported on the new South Coast Rail, expected to finally come online next spring after years of delay. What could it mean for the coastal city of New Bedford, Massachusetts? “Once opened, it will [be] one more reason to live here,” the Mayor told me. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/30/m...

The @ecorinews.bsky.social Regift Sale is by far my favorite event because it checks all the boxes. ✅ Eat pizza 🍕 while shopping ✅ Find the perfect thrift 🎁 gift ✅ #BuyNothing ♻️ new ✅ Support local 📰 news RSVP to join me!

‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year

"What we saw in 2024, with events such as the mega drought in the Amazon, was proof that, like never before, an entire generation of journalists is now talking about climate change and its unprecedented impacts.”

The United States’s political tumult has not changed the physics of climate change. The climate story is only going to get bigger, and it’s journalism's job to help audiences understand why that is happening and, crucially, that it doesn’t have to be this way.

Crows, Hokkaido — Hu Guoqing, c. 2020

Former ecoRI News reporter Tim Faulkner helped save Barrington's last farm, which, last week, formed a backdrop against which the RI Food Policy Council discussed its 2025 legislative priorities centered around bolstering local farming. ecori.org/r-i-food-pol...

Great perspective here by @frankcarini.bsky.social on how #NewEngland's rapidly warming coastal waters are a vastly bigger concern than any impacts from #offshorewind. Glad to see someone write about acidification and what that will mean for shellfish. #energytransition ecori.org/commercial-f...