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RHODE ISLAND â In less than a month, Rhode Islanders will be deciding whether or not to authorize $400 million in bond funding â $47 million of which would go a long way towards green initiatives.
If approved by the voters on March 2, the Beach, Clean Water and Green Bond, which will appear as Question 2 on the special election ballot, will fund eight different initiatives.Â
âGreen bonds support everything I love about Rhode Island, and many people love about Rhode Island,â said Department of Environmental Management Director Janet Coit. âThe clean blue waters, the parks, our open spaces, the vibrancy and diversity of our communities.â
Draining the swamp
Phil Bloom
“Don t it always seem to go, that you don t know what you ve got til it s gone.”
– Joni Mitchell,
“Big Yellow Taxi”
Indiana once had a natural feature unmatched in the country. It was the Grand Kankakee Marsh, the largest inland wetland in America.
Formed by the same retreating glacier that gave northeastern Indiana hundreds of freshwater lakes, the Grand Kankakee stretched along the Kankakee River s twisting, winding path from South Bend to Momence, Illinois. Its estimated size ranged from a half million to 1 million acres.
It was about the size of Rhode Island and dubbed “The Everglades of the North” and “Chicago s Food Pantry.”
Rhode Island State Representative Scott Slater (D-Dist. 10, Providence) has introduced legislation (2021-H 5329) that would prohibit “captive hunting” in Rhode Island.