Our July Climate Leader is the Executive Director of Piedmont Housing Alliance, Sunshine Mathon. Sunshine moved from Austin, Texas to join Piedmont Housing Alliance in August 2017. We asked him to lend us his perspective on the intersections of affordable housing, climate, and racial justice.
Read MoreThis month’s climate policy update focuses on energy burden -- what is it and how we can promote climate solutions that relieve this particular inequity that resides in our community.
Read MoreIf we think we can avert the most catastrophic impacts of climate change by continuing to talk to the same circles of people who have always been engaged, we will fail. In order to engage a broader community, we must first acknowledge the inherent connections between climate and racial justice, and then do our part to dismantle the structures that consciously or unconsciously keep people out.
Read MoreClimate touches every aspect of our lives; every part of our community. Often in the most unexpected places. In partnership with local artist Lily Bechtel we are launching "Climate Connections" featuring leaders and organizations who are seeing climate change effects across our community. Jeanette Abi-Nader from Cultivate Charlottesville talks about the nexus of food and climate. “Food is a vehicle not only for social justice and community building, but also for carbon responsibility."
Read MoreUVA donated more than four thousand pounds of food to five organizations in the Charlottesville area. One of those recipients was Better Business Challenge Participant Loaves and Fishes. We talked with Jane Colony Mills, Executive Director of the shelter, to learn more.
Read MoreWe’re so excited to welcome Claudine as this month’s climate leader! Claudine Ebeid McElwain is a Senior Communications Manager for the Southern Environmental Law Center. She focuses on environmental issues related to Virginia, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and is the host and creator of SELC's podcast Broken Ground.
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