Leaf Guide
Autumn is my favorite time of year. The cool weather, colorful leaves, and fewer bugs make it a great time to be outdoors, and as few places in the world […]
Events:
Howard Gardiner Cushing: A Harmony of Line and Color
July 12 - December 31Liz Collins
Motherlode.
July 19, 2025 - January 1, 2026ERIC-PAUL RIEGE
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September 3 - December 7Mill Town Art
September 13 - November 29A Shared Journey
September 13, 2025 - March 5, 2026This Is a Thing, Recent Gifts to Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 2020–2025
September 14, 2025 - March 1, 2026Revelations! Education: Behind The Curtain – In Words and Images
Reception: Sept 17, 4:30 – 7pm.
September 15 - December 11The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026Festive Fine Arts & Artisans Holiday Marketplace
November 1 - December 23The Galileo Project: Works by Nancy Bockbrader, Doug Bosch, and Richard Whitten
Opening Reception, Thursday, November 6, 4-7pm.
November 6 - December 5DENNY MOERS / BC CRANE / JONATHAN SHARLIN
Reception: Thursday, November 20, 5 – 8 pm.
November 20 - December 10
Health Innovation Policy for the People
Undercutting profit motive for better outcomes
For at least the last 25 years, Rhode Island has relied on the medical-industrial complex to serve as an economic engine. The quest for patentable, scalable cures for the diseases […]
Letter to the Editor
Forest Losses
Global forest losses are one of the big drivers of climate change. RI needs to step up and stop deforestation as part of our climate policy. And if solar is […]
Letter to the Editor
COVID-19 and the Environment
These days it is hard to avoid thinking about the COVID-19 outbreak. I am mostly working on climate issues, and I am sure there are conspiracy theories about how they […]
What’s Up, Earth?
It’s been quite a year for the environment. There’s been good … bad … and really bad… Check out our list of some of the top local, national and international […]
Letter to the Editor
Authoritarian Column
To the Editor, On April 7 Theodore Gatchell’s column really showed his true colors: Authoritarian. His disparagements of the workers at Microsoft who do not wish to build weapons demonstrates […]
Letter to the Editor
RI Economy
To the Editor, The headline in the April 7 Providence Journal was “RI economy cools off in first quarter.” It then quoted all the usual suspects as to why and […]
Letter to the Editor
Trump Tax Cuts
To the Editor, On Sunday, March 24, The Boston Globe published an op-ed by Paul Krugman titled “Holy Voodoo Batman” in which he notes that the Trump tax cut boom […]
Stop Digging
To get out of this hole, we have to stop building fossil fuel facilities
Climate change because of deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels is the existential crisis of our times. The amount of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has gone from 280 parts per […]
Cut the Scrap!
The 2019 Compost Conference highlights the triumphs and hopes of the industry
I have been composting since 1981, when I first started cleaning sheep barns for a cut of the manure. I fed sheep manure compost to my garden every year for […]