It was in March this year that Joe Bouchard, Laura Wood Habr (Croc’s 19th Street Bistro and Virginia Beach’s “green ambassador”), Ari Lawrence (Virginia Chair, Surfrider Foundation), and myself met to talk about doing a Hands Across The Sand in Virginia Beach. We were inspired by the 10,000 Floridians who a month earlier had [...]
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and ten East Coast governors to include Virginia’s Governor Bob McDonnell signed a Memorandum of Understanding yesterday to create an Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium to promote “the efficient, orderly, and responsible development of wind resources on the Outer Continental Shelf”.
Glen Besa, Director, Sierra Club-Virginia Chapter, offers the following statement:
“Offshore wind [...]
Check out our new promotional! video for Hands Across the Sand! It was produced by Ivy Main, our wonderful Renewable Energy Chair. It “stars” Chesapeake Bay group chairperson Terra Pascarosa, William Reyes a local business owner, former Commander of the Norfolk Naval Station Joe Bouchard, and Ari Lawrence, the Virginia Chapter chairperson with Surfrider Foundation.
The [...]
Within five to 10 years, wind turbine projects off the coast of Virginia could produce electricity at competitive costs and create thousands of jobs, according to a comprehensive feasibility study just released by the Virginia Coastal Energy Research Consortium (VCERC).
The 67-page report, which reflects 30 months of fact-finding and analysis by researchers affiliated with Virginia [...]
Reason 1: Clean energy and climate policies will create 2 million American jobs.
On Day #1 in our Earth Day Revolution, Virginia Clean Energy Patriots gathered in front of Sen. Mark Warner’s Richmond office to record this video:
The Sierra Club along with eight other progressive action groups are sponsoring “Tools for Change: Grassroots Advocacy Workshops” in Northern Virginia, Norfolk and Richmond.
Each workshop asks the following questions:
· How can we move to a clean energy, jobs-producing economy?
· How can individuals, businesses, churches and others use energy more efficiently?
· How can we [...]
Energy efficiency is the cleanest, cheapest, quickest and most reliable way for Virginia to meet its energy needs. It must be Virginia’s “first fuel.”
Enacting strong energy efficiency programs will create jobs in Virginia and save families and businesses money on their electric bills while also cutting harmful air and water pollution and reducing the [...]
by Ivy Main
Solar energy, long viewed as too expensive for widespread use in Virginia, may reach competitive price levels across the nation within just six years.
This was the big take-home message for several Sierra Club members who attended a one-day conference
on April 24 [2009] marking the opening of George Washington University’s Institute for Analysis of [...]
All over Virginia, communities are taking action to help solve global warming. From hybrid vehicle fleets in Alexandria and Fairfax, to green buildings in Charlottesville, and schools powered with renewable energy in Virginia Beach, local governments are moving forward with innovative energy solutions that curb global warming, save taxpayer dollars, and create healthier cities.
So [...]
Learn how Virginia can harness the cleanest, cheapest and quickest supply of energy, what our schools and communities can do now to save money and how we can all be a part.
Getting smarter about the way we use energy will save families money and create jobs right here in Virginia. Energy experts agree that by [...]
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