EarthTalk® From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine Underground mycelium networks can absorb and break down a wide range of natural and man-made compounds, and that’s why we’re using them to clean up contaminated sites naturally. Credit: Kirill Ignatyev, FlickrCC   Dear EarthTalk: How is it that fungi can help clean up contaminated […]

Rhode Island Post Card Club February 23rd Meeting The Rhode Island Post Card Club holds its next meeting and sale on Sunday February 23rd from 9 AM to 2 PM at the Knights of Columbus, 15 Bassett Street in North Providence.   The hall is easily accessible from Route 146. Take the Mineral Spring Ave. […]

Treasurer Magaziner’s BankLOCAL initiative supports 348 small businesses in Rhode Island in three years Treasurer Magaziner’s small business lending program, BankLOCAL, celebrates its 3-year anniversary this week having supported 348 small business loans and moved $37.5 million of cash deposits to Rhode Island banks and credit unions. “BankLOCAL is another way that we use the […]

Film Screening: Miss Representation   Monday, March 30, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the Balfour Room   In honor of Women’s History Month, and with the help of our new streaming service Kanopy, we will be screening the award-winning documentary Miss Representation, directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom.   “Like drawing back a curtain to let bright […]

RAISE THE ROOF Winslow Farm is excited to announce our Capital Campaign to raise funds for a new roof for our main barn! Beginning on Valentine’s Day, February 14, and running through Earth Day, April 22, we need to raise $40,000 to replace the roof on our main barn. This barn has a deep and meaningful history […]

Marcus the Magician Performs for the Whole Family! Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 3 pm. Marcus the Magician presents a hilarious, laugh-packed show full of amazing magic, wonderful audience interaction, and fun-filled humor as young volunteers from the audience become the performers. The fun comes from everywhere — including out of a hat — as […]

Gallery view – Spring Show at T.F. Green’s GREEN SPACE Art Gallery The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) announced today a new art exhibition on display at GREEN SPACE Gallery at TF Green Airport.  The first GREEN SPACE exhibition of 2020 features works by Shaun Rock and Brenda Wrigley Scott and will […]

SWEEDEN SWAMP AND THE WATERSHED By Don Doucette Cardi’s South Attleboro is surrounded by Sweeden Swamp. Before the construction of Route 95 through South Attleboro at the Rhode Island line, Mendon Avenue (northern Bucklin Brook Watershed) in Pawtucket and Mendon Road in South Attleboro were commonly connected as a through street from Benefit Street, Pawtucket […]