Thursday, February 29, 2024 https://youtu.be/FoxmUCo7yNo?feature=shared You can significantly reduce carbon emissions from your home and businesses. In this seminar, individuals learn how they can reduce their personal carbon footprints by making improvements at home like transitioning to efficient electric home…
Rockbridge Conservation seeks a Project Facilitator for a quarter-timme one-year position to launch the pilot year of the Healthy Green Neighborhoods Collaborative, with subsequent years dependent on funding. This Collaborative is a new venture whose long-term goal is to create…
https://youtu.be/77ISLGIKS8s Rockbridge Conservation welcomed Annette Green (Boxerwood) for our May 2023 Seminar on different approaches to addressing carbon emissions. We learned about different methods for limiting or offsetting emissions. Annette Green represented COREworks, a carbon offsetting program managed by Boxerwood.…
May 17, 2023, 7:00pm Rockbridge Conservation welcomes Annette Green (Boxerwood) and Clarence Edwards (Friends Committee on National Legislation - FCNL) for our May 2023 Seminar on different approaches to addressing carbon emissions. We will hear about two different methods for…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO_IJ9L7KHI Kudzu, Chinese privet, Japanese knotweed, burning bush, tree of heaven… we have many invasive plants here in Rockbridge County. What can you do about them? Jared Lee, associate biology professor at Southern Virginia University, talks about invasive plants in…
https://youtu.be/KtMlJK5EUCc Recorded December 15, 2022 Ellie Moss from Perpetual, a nonprofit organization promoting the transition from disposable to reusable containers, describes the potential and challenges of creating an open-loop returnable container restaurant carryout system. Perpetual promotes the concept of a…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZbzDvIo5F8 Leslie Sturges, President of the Bat Conservation & Rescue of Virginia led an in-depth discussion of Virginia’s native bats and the conservation challenges our bats face. Leslie presented a brief overview of bats' natural history, regional species, touched on…
https://youtu.be/s9xmjXuKn8A Recorded October 19, 2022 Wren Frueh, of Valley Conservation Council presents “Alternatives to Mowed Grass Lawns.” View slides Alternative ground covers can increase biodiversity and organic content in soils, improving water retention and eliminating the need for chemical inputs.…
David Yarrow describes the synergistic benefits of creating carbon sinks for the land beneath our feet. He is the manager of a citizen scientist project in Columbia, Missouri that seeks to demonstrate this potential by documenting increases in organic content…
Food Recovery Composting Program Rockbridge Conservation's Food Recovery composting program is open to residents on Lexington and takes household food scraps that are then used by a local farmer. We have two weekly drop-off locations: one near Lime Kiln and…