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ecoRI News

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Covering environmental news in southern New England. Click the link below 👇 to sign up for our free twice-weekly newsletter.
  • Spirituality & Religion
  • Following 1.4K
  • Followers 5.9K
  • Engagement 3.09%
  • Avg comments 9

About ecoRI News

ecoRI News (@ecorinews) is a Non-Profits & Religious Organizations creator on Instagram, also filed under Spirituality & Religion. The account has 5,863 followers and 614 published posts. Recent posts average 190 likes and 9 comments, an engagement rate of 3.09%.

ecoRI News belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. ecoRI News follows 1,393 accounts, so the audience is roughly 4.2 times the size of the list followed. ecoRI News is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files ecoRI News under Non-Profits & Religious Organizations, with Spirituality & Religion as a secondary category.

The Instagram bio for ecoRI News runs to 19 words. Emoji sit alongside the words. The latest activity Flinque has on record for ecoRI News dates from May 2026.

614 Posts

Of the 10 most recent posts shown for ecoRI News, 7 are carousels and 3 are single images. That mix leans toward carousels. ecoRI News has built a substantial archive of 614 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 9.5 followers for each post published. All 10 carry captions, averaging 127 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include full, rhode, island, read and environmental.

Kelli and Mike Roberts, both 45, founded Roots Farm 16 years ago. Their descent into farming was delayed by graduation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earning higher degrees. Kelli has a Ph.D. in material science engineering and Mike has a master’s degree in mechanical engineering.

The couple’s first foray into farming on their own cropped up in August 2009 on some leased farmland in Bristol. A year later, in November 2010, the operation was uprooted and moved to East Road, where their new house required some tender loving care and Roots Farm was established. The farm’s name derived from Kelli’s return home.

She grew up in Tiverton, graduating from Tiverton High School in 1999. When Kelli left for Cambridge, Mass., she didn’t expect to call the East Bay home again, especially as an organic farmer.

Read more about Roots Farm at or at link in bio.
A Richmond, R.I., shopping center has struggled to retain tenants as businesses closed and others outgrew their space, while its ownership changed hands over the years.

Four vacancies remain: a boarded-up gas station, two former retail storefronts and an empty supermarket building. But none has drawn more attention in the town of 8,000 than the vacant grocery store that Stop & Shop has held on to for three decades.

Stop & Shop's restrictions in deeds and leases limiting competition deepens barriers to access to healthy foods in rural and urban communities.

Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos’ staff have searched for restrictive covenants across the state, and some of their findings include examples where Stop & Shop has left commercial property frozen: a demolished Almacs plaza in Coventry and the building in Richmond. Read about the town's response at or link in bio.
Josmeily Minier Estevez has been transforming Providence one corner at a time, during rain or shine. The Juanita Sánchez Educational Complex senior can pinpoint the contributions she’s made across the city to help the next generation breathe cleaner air.

The school she attends — named after a social worker from the Dominican Republic who helped shape Rhode Island’s history — sits in an urban heat island with little shade, in a neighborhood with one of the lowest tree canopy rates in the city and part of a state where 13% of its land consists of pavement.

With a colorful bandana tied to her belt loop, the 17-year-old has helped Groundwork Rhode Island advance its vision of more equitable urban communities by introducing residents to a growing movement that is reclaiming urban spaces through her work on its Green Team.

“I really wanted to make a big hit for my school,” she said. “I thought this was going to impact my community the most.” Read more about the Josmeily and her classmates work to transform their community at or at link in bio.
Thanks for the write-up! It's an honor to have our story told by such an amazing team -- Article by Frank Carini and 📸 by Joanna Detz

Since beginning, we've looked to them as a reliable and trustworthy source, dedicated to reporting on environmental and social justice issues in southern New England. We appreciate your work!

I have to say, the article is "Fabulous" 🐓 😅
Rep. Lauren Carson, D-Newport, has been working behind the scenes to save the state’s Renewable Energy Standard (RES), the law that mandates Rhode Island must source all retail electricity from renewable sources by 2033. “We know that renewables will give us lower costs once the investments are made,” Carson said. “We know the Iran war has caused a tremendous increase at the pump.”

Carson’s legislation received wide support from environmental groups and union labor. Joe Walsh, business manager for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 99, speaking in support of the bill, said costs for gas and heating oil were costing workers much more.

“A bucketful of wind or a truckload of sunshine costs the same amount as it did two months ago,” Walsh said. “This bill offers a lot of different options to help us get to a clean energy goal under the Act on Climate.”

Full story at or at link in bio.
Representatives from five organizations gathered on the steps of City Hall on May 12 with a united message: the South Side will not be ignored or silenced.

Some present had opposed Marathon Construction & Development’s proposal to build a parking garage at 140 Prairie Ave. tied to a housing development on Blackstone Street.

The garage would have risen on hospital land, where dozens of homes once stood before they were demolished over the years. Four surviving houses near the property became known as “The Resistance Houses,” a name that landed on the Providence Preservation Society’s 2026 Most Endangered Places list.

Ron Crosson’s grandmother’s salary from her job in Rhode Island Hospital’s laundry room helped his family stay afloat on Dudley Street. The house he grew up in near Prairie Avenue is now one of the endangered homes.

Their efforts led Marathon to scrap plans for a standalone garage and instead fold parking into its housing development, the Providence Preservation Society reported. But the company still plans to redevelop the property tied to Brown University Health and will present a revised proposal in the coming months, according to a news release. Full story at and at link in bio.
Rhode Island's Department of Environmental Management manages 35 areas/properties of various sizes and habitats that total some 70,000 acres of forest. These public properties are logged (for profit), cut to make way for early successional habitat (for hunting), torn up by all-terrain vehicles (illegally), run over by both dirt and mountain bikes (legally, sometimes illegally), and/or trampled on (for hiking, hunting, fishing, and birdwatching).

Since 1995, DEM has done logging — what the agency calls “active management” — on 1,875 acres of public forest, according to Tee Jay Boudreau, deputy chief of DEM’s Division of Agriculture and Forest Environment.

While only 0.03% of Rhode Island’s public forestland has been touched by logging equipment in the past three decades, there is no guarantee that percentage doesn’t increase, because there are no legal protections in place. No natural area preserves designated, just management areas where humans play. Read full opinion at or at link in bio.
Mark Andrews, deputy tribal historic preservation officer for the Narragansett Tribe, said the site has all the components of the everyday life of a village.

“The piece de resistance was the post molds they discovered, indicative of a huge longhouse where families gathered in the winter,” he said. “It has to be 50 feet by 30 feet long.”

Full story at link in bio and at
The lawsuit is the latest chapter in a three-year saga between state regulators and Quidnessett Country Club over the seawall. The wall was first built sometime in 2023 without state authorization or permits, in a bid to protect the club’s golf course from the coastal erosion forces in Narragansett Bay.

The wall went unnoticed by state regulators until someone tipped off the Coastal Resources Management Council, the chief regulator of coastal development in Rhode Island, and the agency that handles coastal infrastructure projects like seawalls, in August 2023. Full story at or at link in bio.

📸 Save The Bay
Environmental advocates, still opposed to the changes to renewable energy, energy efficiency programs, and the renewable energy standard, told the House Finance Committee any changes would throw out the progress the General Assembly has made on climate action in recent years, including achieving the goals of the Act on Climate law. Full story at or at link in bio

ecoRI News's engagement

ecoRI News's engagement rate on Instagram is 3.09%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 32 followers. An average post collects 190 likes and 9 comments, close to 21 likes for each comment.

Engagement rate

3.09%

Avg likes
190
Avg comments
9
Interactions : followers
1 : 32

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Who is ecoRI News?

ecoRI News (@ecorinews) is a Non-Profits & Religious Organizations creator on Instagram, also filed under Spirituality & Religion. ecoRI News is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for ecoRI News runs to 19 words.

How many followers does ecoRI News have?

ecoRI News has 5,863 followers on Instagram (5.9K). ecoRI News follows 1,393 accounts, so the audience is roughly 4.2 times the size of the list followed. ecoRI News has built a substantial archive of 614 posts.

What is ecoRI News's engagement rate?

ecoRI News's engagement rate on Instagram is 3.09%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 32 followers. An average post collects 190 likes and 9 comments, close to 21 likes for each comment.

What does ecoRI News post about on Instagram?

Flinque files ecoRI News under Non-Profits & Religious Organizations, with Spirituality & Religion as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for ecoRI News, 7 are carousels and 3 are single images. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for ecoRI News repeatedly use the words full, rhode, island, read and environmental. ecoRI News writes those captions mainly in English.

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