Thanks to @sustainpvd for these tips to manage stormwater & help avoid contributing to stormwater pollution! Capture rain & reuse Disconnecting your downspout from the stormwater system helps improve water quality & provides a household with water for gardening. Buy a rain barrel, make your own, or check out RI DEM’s resources for other approaches…
Recruiting for next cohort now! Live in Washington Park or South Providence? Interested in climate risk and resilience strategies? In 2024, together with the City of Providence, Groundwork RI, the People’s Port Authority and Save The Bay, PRP launched a three-year NOAA-funded technical analysis of the Port of Providence’s coastline, which borders the South Providence…
Oped in Providence Sunday Journal: As a child, I lived outside Asheville NC, and vividly remember seeing clouds float right outside the car window as we ascended the mountain roads. At those wispy levels, we seemed far and away from whatever happened in the piedmont – the flatland at the mountain’s base. Over the decades,…
Are you in the CodeRed network? If not, stop what you are doing and sign up HERE. If you do, the next time there is any type of emergency, you’ll be the first to know. CodeRED is a mass notification system that allows City emergency officials to send emergency notifications by phone, email, and text…
Roots2Empower & the People’s Port Authority invite you to join a community climate conversation. As Rhode Island invests in statewide actions to combat the climate crisis, residents experiencing the steepest barriers should be front and center. New England is warming faster than any other region in the country, and of all the New England states,…
In an effort to enhance community resilience and readiness, The New England Consortium (TNEC) is offering free Disaster Preparedness and Response training for Rhode Island residents. Funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Worker Training Program (NIEHS-WTP), this initiative aims to equip communities with the skills needed to effectively respond to natural disasters…
The Providence Emergency Management Agency recruits and maintains a cadre of highly trained volunteers to assist with the PEMA mission. Volunteers are trained in: disaster preparedness and response, Medical Emergency Distribution System – Points of Dispensing (MEDS POD), Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services (RACES), shelter operations, disaster medical operations, search and rescue, Emergency Operations Center…
The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) – along with partners the RI Tree Council, Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association, and the Arbor Day Foundation – is giving over 2,000 trees away to Rhode Islanders this spring through the Energy-Saving Trees program. Registration opens on Friday, April 12. Now in its eighth year, this popular…
Rising sea levels have brought increased flooding to low-lying coastal areas around Rhode Island in recent years. Volunteers have taken thousands of photographs of local areas flooded by king tides and storms and uploaded them to MyCoast.org/ri, an online database that tags the photos with tidal and weather information and locates them on a map. Learn…
Calling residents & small business owners in South Providence & Washington Park! We are looking for people from these two neighborhoods who want to participate in a NOAA-funded project to examine the possibilities for the port coastline from Sassafras Cove to Collier Point Park, with a focus on improved climate resilience, habitat restoration and other…