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…
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…
Wondering how you can celebrate the holidays with a lower impact on Mother Nature? Check out our Sustainable Holiday Guide. We take on the question of artificial v. real trees, gift giving, decorations and more! Download it here.
Rockbridge Conservation Partners with Local Solar Nonprofit Rockbridge Conservation is partnering with Solar United Neighbors (SUN) in Rockbridge County on their Ready, Set, Solar! program. SUN is a vendor-neutral nonprofit with expertise not only in solar energy but in the…
Public Comments Promote Land Conservation The Land Conservation Committee has been hard at work in the public arena on behalf of county and city residents. Members of the committee who are experts in various environmental fields are volunteering their time…
September 21, 7:00pm Carbon Sink Demonstration Project Rockbridge Conservation (RACC) will host David Yarrow, an agronomist who will describe his Columbia, Missouri project on how to create soil carbon sinks. Yarrow is leading a Citizen’s Science project that documents improvements…
The June 2022 webinar in Rockbridge Area Conservation Council’s seminar/webinar series will discuss how to deal with leftover food scraps/residue in an eco-friendly way...just in time for all our summer garden trimmings. Food scraps, composting and more will be discussed…
This map was created by a fantastic resource, the Conservation Hub (CH), to inform public comments about Apex's proposed Rocky Forge Wind Power Plant. The public comment period is May 26, 2022, to June 25, 2022. Virginians for Responsible Energy…
Presented Jan 19, 2022 by Jeff Heie“Solar Solutions for Habitat for Humanity Homes, Low-Income Households, and Non-Profits” GiveSolar offers solar solutions for nonprofit organizations and low-income households, providing electricity from the sun while reducing overhead costs and energy poverty by…