Joanna Detz
@jodetz.bsky.social
Recovering shy person. Forever introvert. Graphic designer by night. Publisher of ecoRI News by day.
This is not #fakenews. The next $2,200 in donations to my nonprofit newsroom @ecorinews.bsky.social will be quadrupled by #Newsmatch and a group of local donors. I keep pinching myself. We've never had a quadruple match. ecori.kindful.com?campaign=138...
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is not #fakenews. The next $2,200 in donations to my nonprofit newsroom @ecorinews.bsky.social will be quadrupled by #Newsmatch and a group of local donors. I keep pinching myself. We've never had a quadruple match. ecori.kindful.com?campaign=138...
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Been waiting for this bitumen-soaked shoe to drop:
November 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Been waiting for this bitumen-soaked shoe to drop:
For at least three hours on Saturday, my hometown of Portsmouth, R.I., got a look at what car-free bike and pedestrian infrastructure might look like at this @bikenewportri.bsky.social event.
November 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
For at least three hours on Saturday, my hometown of Portsmouth, R.I., got a look at what car-free bike and pedestrian infrastructure might look like at this @bikenewportri.bsky.social event.
My musings on pessimistic optimism and local media on the occasion of @ecorinews.bsky.social 16th birthday.
September 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
My musings on pessimistic optimism and local media on the occasion of @ecorinews.bsky.social 16th birthday.
Those virtuous-looking brown to-go containers look compostable, but they aren't necessarily. Nor are they recyclable. Like most everything these days, it's complicated, so I set out to make sense of it. ecori.org/a-complete-a...
A Complete and Utter Breakdown: That’s the Hope When It Comes to Compostable Packaging - ecoRI News
The increasing public alarm over the scourge of single-use plastics has likely contributed to the proliferation of compostable foodware.
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August 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Those virtuous-looking brown to-go containers look compostable, but they aren't necessarily. Nor are they recyclable. Like most everything these days, it's complicated, so I set out to make sense of it. ecori.org/a-complete-a...
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Such a quintessential ecoRI News quote:
🗨️ “Your beavers are going to be pissed when they come out tonight."
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🗨️ “Your beavers are going to be pissed when they come out tonight."
ecori.org/device-allow...
Device Allows Beavers, Humans to Co-Exist - ecoRI News
When beavers hear water, their natural inclination is to start damming it.
ecori.org
August 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Such a quintessential ecoRI News quote:
🗨️ “Your beavers are going to be pissed when they come out tonight."
ecori.org/device-allow...
🗨️ “Your beavers are going to be pissed when they come out tonight."
ecori.org/device-allow...
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Listen to ecoRI News reporter @robesmith.bsky.social on @ripbs-tpr.bsky.social as he discusses our reporting tracking plastic bottles on their journey from your recycling bin. He details our methods and our discoveries with host @radiostoryteller.bsky.social. thepublicsradio.org/environment/...
What actually happens to recycled plastics in Rhode Island? - TPR: The Public's Radio
In order to help reduce plastic waste and help the environment, Rhode Islanders are encouraged to reduce, reuse, and recycle plastics. But what actually happens to the plastic the state collects for ...
thepublicsradio.org
August 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Listen to ecoRI News reporter @robesmith.bsky.social on @ripbs-tpr.bsky.social as he discusses our reporting tracking plastic bottles on their journey from your recycling bin. He details our methods and our discoveries with host @radiostoryteller.bsky.social. thepublicsradio.org/environment/...
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Behind the Story:
@colleen-cronin.bsky.social joins @kimkalunian.bsky.social + me to discuss recycling violations in Providence.
Shoutouts to other great reporting this week 👇https://www.wpri.com/behindthestory/behind-the-story-7-30-25-colleen-cronin-talks-recycling-violations-in-providence/
@colleen-cronin.bsky.social joins @kimkalunian.bsky.social + me to discuss recycling violations in Providence.
Shoutouts to other great reporting this week 👇https://www.wpri.com/behindthestory/behind-the-story-7-30-25-colleen-cronin-talks-recycling-violations-in-providence/
Behind the Story 7/30/25: Colleen Cronin talks recycling violations in Providence
Colleen Cronin of ecoRI News joins Eli Sherman and Kim Kalunian to discuss her reporting on recycling violations in Providence.
www.wpri.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Behind the Story:
@colleen-cronin.bsky.social joins @kimkalunian.bsky.social + me to discuss recycling violations in Providence.
Shoutouts to other great reporting this week 👇https://www.wpri.com/behindthestory/behind-the-story-7-30-25-colleen-cronin-talks-recycling-violations-in-providence/
@colleen-cronin.bsky.social joins @kimkalunian.bsky.social + me to discuss recycling violations in Providence.
Shoutouts to other great reporting this week 👇https://www.wpri.com/behindthestory/behind-the-story-7-30-25-colleen-cronin-talks-recycling-violations-in-providence/
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This piece on plastics recycling in Rhode Island is quite illuminating. It’s hard to get real information, and the way this information was gathered was costly and also (thus) not broad, but it’s still good to see that it’s not just “sort it and then let it go to the landfill and be buried anyway”
We put trackers in plastic bottles and tossed them in recycling bins around Rhode Island. Then we tracked their incredible journey. The results were surprising. buff.ly/d9dVpPC
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August 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
This piece on plastics recycling in Rhode Island is quite illuminating. It’s hard to get real information, and the way this information was gathered was costly and also (thus) not broad, but it’s still good to see that it’s not just “sort it and then let it go to the landfill and be buried anyway”
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So far only person has spoken against the project, the rest have been members of the public and environmental groups supporting the project
July 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
So far only person has spoken against the project, the rest have been members of the public and environmental groups supporting the project
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In Portsmouth tonight: the state EFSB is hosting a public comment at the middle school over the export cables that are planned to go through town
July 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
In Portsmouth tonight: the state EFSB is hosting a public comment at the middle school over the export cables that are planned to go through town
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All first-time donations to ecoRI News are tripled thanks to a generous South County couple. ecori.kindful.com?campaign=137...
Read this note from our publisher @jodetz.bsky.social about why attracting new donors is so important to our newsroom.
Read this note from our publisher @jodetz.bsky.social about why attracting new donors is so important to our newsroom.
July 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
All first-time donations to ecoRI News are tripled thanks to a generous South County couple. ecori.kindful.com?campaign=137...
Read this note from our publisher @jodetz.bsky.social about why attracting new donors is so important to our newsroom.
Read this note from our publisher @jodetz.bsky.social about why attracting new donors is so important to our newsroom.
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New seal census just dropped. 🦭
The seal population is growing in RI. Does that mean fewer fish and more sharks?
Narraganset Bay's seal population has been steady over the past several years, while the Block
Island population has increased.
www.providencejournal.com
April 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New seal census just dropped. 🦭
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Commentary from Steve Alexander, Scott Breen, Scott DeFife, Emily Howe and @jedthorp.bsky.social: A bottle bill is not only good for the environment, it’s good for business, proponents of House bill 6207 write.
It’s time for R.I. to reduce litter and reform the way the Ocean State recycles - The Boston Globe
A bottle bill is not only good for the environment, it’s good for business, proponents of House bill 6207 write.
www.bostonglobe.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Commentary from Steve Alexander, Scott Breen, Scott DeFife, Emily Howe and @jedthorp.bsky.social: A bottle bill is not only good for the environment, it’s good for business, proponents of House bill 6207 write.
Sometimes at my job they let me design stickers.
April 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Sometimes at my job they let me design stickers.
"History shows that the corrupt system we live under considers the vast majority of us nothing more than a commodity or a consumer. It was built to lift the few at the expense of the many." @frankcarini.bsky.social writes in his latest Frank Take. ecori.org/century-old-...
Century-Old Massacre Illuminates Current Dangers - ecoRI News
The media establishment covers politics like it’s the Super Bowl or Golden Globes. Democracy, and the natural world, dies in darkness.
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January 31, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"History shows that the corrupt system we live under considers the vast majority of us nothing more than a commodity or a consumer. It was built to lift the few at the expense of the many." @frankcarini.bsky.social writes in his latest Frank Take. ecori.org/century-old-...
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Here’s a look at my story (featured in today’s paper) about Cumberland, Rhode Island’s monastery trail, which is located about 2 miles from me. Me and Duke spend countless weekends walking here.
Finding serenity at the Monastery Trails in Cumberland, R.I. - The Boston Globe
What was once a swath of rocky land owned by Trappist monks is now a haven for wildlife as well as nature lovers
www.bostonglobe.com
January 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Here’s a look at my story (featured in today’s paper) about Cumberland, Rhode Island’s monastery trail, which is located about 2 miles from me. Me and Duke spend countless weekends walking here.
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This. This is what overthrew the elite enslavers in the 1859s and the robber barons in the 1890s. We need these new papers everywhere.
In Rhode Island, as elsewhere, the local news crisis is being solved one community at a time. @phileil.bsky.social reports for Rhode Island Monthly (I'm quoted):
The Local News Revolution in Rhode Island - Rhode Island Monthly
Bill Bartholomew lives in a former industrial building on the south side of Providence. His apartment has high ceilings, a wide-open floor plan and wires
www.rimonthly.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This. This is what overthrew the elite enslavers in the 1859s and the robber barons in the 1890s. We need these new papers everywhere.
"We will allow more speech ..." This is rich coming from a company that de-platformed all Canadian news publishers in 2023. about.fb.com/news/2025/01...
More Speech and Fewer Mistakes | Meta
We're ending our third party fact checking program and moving to a Community Notes model.
about.fb.com
January 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"We will allow more speech ..." This is rich coming from a company that de-platformed all Canadian news publishers in 2023. about.fb.com/news/2025/01...
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Rhode Island DEM will conserve and make publicly available more than 900 acres of forest land in Burrillville following its $1.6 million purchase of the former Boy Scouts property – the agency’s largest single acquisition in a decade.
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/02/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/02/m...
R.I. to conserve more than 900 acres of forest through purchase of Boy Scout property - The Boston Globe
The acquisition is the largest for the state’s Department of Environmental Management in a decade, and the property is one of the last large undeveloped parcels in Rhode Island.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Rhode Island DEM will conserve and make publicly available more than 900 acres of forest land in Burrillville following its $1.6 million purchase of the former Boy Scouts property – the agency’s largest single acquisition in a decade.
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/02/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/02/m...
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NEW: I reported on the new South Coast Rail, expected to finally come online next spring after years of delay. What could it mean for the coastal city of New Bedford, Massachusetts?
“Once opened, it will [be] one more reason to live here,” the Mayor told me.
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/30/m...
“Once opened, it will [be] one more reason to live here,” the Mayor told me.
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/30/m...
Upcoming rail connection to New Bedford to happen as the city sees a significant economic shift - The Boston Globe
By next spring, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority expects a rail connection between New Bedford and Boston to open, for the first time in more than half a century.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 1, 2024 at 1:01 PM
NEW: I reported on the new South Coast Rail, expected to finally come online next spring after years of delay. What could it mean for the coastal city of New Bedford, Massachusetts?
“Once opened, it will [be] one more reason to live here,” the Mayor told me.
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/30/m...
“Once opened, it will [be] one more reason to live here,” the Mayor told me.
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/30/m...
The @ecorinews.bsky.social Regift Sale is by far my favorite event because it checks all the boxes.
✅ Eat pizza 🍕 while shopping
✅ Find the perfect thrift 🎁 gift
✅ #BuyNothing ♻️ new
✅ Support local 📰 news
RSVP to join me!
✅ Eat pizza 🍕 while shopping
✅ Find the perfect thrift 🎁 gift
✅ #BuyNothing ♻️ new
✅ Support local 📰 news
RSVP to join me!
Regift Sale
This holiday season, avoid the mall, clear closet clutter, and find the perfect thrift gift.
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December 1, 2024 at 1:26 PM
The @ecorinews.bsky.social Regift Sale is by far my favorite event because it checks all the boxes.
✅ Eat pizza 🍕 while shopping
✅ Find the perfect thrift 🎁 gift
✅ #BuyNothing ♻️ new
✅ Support local 📰 news
RSVP to join me!
✅ Eat pizza 🍕 while shopping
✅ Find the perfect thrift 🎁 gift
✅ #BuyNothing ♻️ new
✅ Support local 📰 news
RSVP to join me!
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‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year
‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year
The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’
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“We’re all living through the enshittocene, a…
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November 26, 2024 at 2:21 AM
‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year
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"What we saw in 2024, with events such as the mega drought in the Amazon, was proof that, like never before, an entire generation of journalists is now talking about climate change and its unprecedented impacts.”
Environmental journalism as the link between local and global (commentary)
December 2009, Copenhagen, three in the morning. Tired of waiting for any official announcement from the COP15 presidency, a journalist friend and I decided to sleep right there in the convention…
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November 28, 2024 at 3:08 PM
"What we saw in 2024, with events such as the mega drought in the Amazon, was proof that, like never before, an entire generation of journalists is now talking about climate change and its unprecedented impacts.”