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April ABODE: Tuley’s last stand
Classic Charlottesville surroundings, including lots of greenery, lend the house its character. (Photo by Andrea Hubbell) Jim Tuley certainly wasn’t the first architect in Charlottesville. In fact, he arrived in 1968 to join a well-established design community at UVA’s School of Architecture. But he was one of the first to create a substantial body of [...]
Green Scene Blog: Skip buying deodorant
Zero Garbage practitioner Rose Brown explains how to make your own deodorant from kitchen staples.
Green Scene Blog: Avoiding Frankenfoods
Local book author Wendy Vigdor-Hess explains why it’s tricky to keep from eating GMOs.
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March ABODE: Locals wait for green neighborhood dreams to come true
It was a strange form of pioneering. For a year after Frank and Linda Dukes moved into their new house in the Belvedere development in August 2009, Frank said, “there was no construction going on anywhere.” The Dukes’ house sat nearly alone in what had been envisioned as a 675-home neighborhood, stranded by the 2008 [...]
Green Scene Blog: Spring on Sharondale Farm
Mark Jones explains what’s budding on his farm this season.
Green Scene Blog: Bikeable business?
Sky Blue on the art of running a gardening company from a bike seat.
Green Scene Blog: How’s the water?
StreamWatch’s Rose Brown explains what the heck exurban means, and what it means to stream health.
Green Scene Blog: Citizens to Richmond: Get efficient
Appalachian Voices’ Tom Cormons on why you should care about the SCC.
Green Scene Blog: Check out Green in PRINT!
An intro to the new Green Scene page as seen in C-VILLE’s print edition.
Green Scene Blog: The lowdown on GMOs
Guest blogger Wendy Vigdor-Hess explains why she avoids eating GMOs for lunch.
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February ABODE: Updating a Victorian gem in Staunton
Paula Rau’s only lived in her Staunton house for a short time—since fall 2010. But the century-old home embodies many more years of history than that. There was the house’s original incarnation, a single-family Victorian in the city’s oldest neighborhood, Newtown, which blankets a series of steep hills just west of downtown. Then there was [...]
Learn more about Zero Garbage
Two workshops this week reveal the no-trash lifestyle of local Rose Brown.
Uranium mining forces private choices
Should individual people be forced to safeguard the environment, at risk to their own bank accounts?