Environment

Laney Sullivan has launched a petition to get Richmond’s historic springs reopened to the public: We, the undersigned residents of Richmond, Virginia, respectfully petition for…

From the folks at Community Foundation for Greater Richmond: In partnership with the city of Richmond, we are urgently seeking volunteers to assist with bottled…

From RPS: JANUARY 8 (Richmond, Va.) — Richmond Public Schools will be providing lunch on Thursday, January 9, and Friday, January 10, to any RPS…

Southside ReLeaf has put together this amazing list and map of water crisis resources available in Richmond that includes an updated status report, locations of…

Kyle Levesque is organizing to get the water at Wayside Spring tested. Neighbors have increasingly turned to the artesian spring over the past few days,…

MapRVA is conducting a Richmond Water Crisis Survey and needs your help! Got 90 seconds or so? Survey is HERE

12 on Your Side is confirming a story that hit reddit/r/rva this afternoon that a power outage at a water treatment facility is impacting water…

Some kind of winter weather is coming Sunday into Monday that looks like it’ll keep school closed for at least a few more days –…

Duron Chavis announced a new community garden space coming to the Broadrock Sports Complex, and there is a tree planting planned for the space on…

Sahara Sriraman at 8NEWS reports that there was an official groundbreaking for the James River Branch Trail on Tuesday. The James River Branch Trail will…

From Southside ReLeaf: The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay has awarded Swansboro West Civic Association a $20,000 Community Green Access (CGA) mini-grant to conduct a…

Sara Molina at 8NEWS looks at the heating problems at Broad Rock Elementary: After several parents posted on Facebook about the lack of heat at…

The Community Climate Collaborative (C3) is studying the energy burden across different neighborhoods in Richmond and needs your input! Energy burden is the percentage of…

Kendall Taylor at The Richmonder has a great look at the origin and impact of Southside Releaf as they celebrate 5 years: Wentz co-founded the…

WTVR has a great write-up of yesterday’s tree planting in Oak Grove: “The purpose is to cool this neighborhood, because it used to be a…

Come out this Saturday and see the beginning of a new park, talk to Amy Wentz from Southside ReLeaf, and hang out with goats and…

Campaign signs from around the area. Anybody see any Shavonda Dixon signs?

The popular Potterfield Bridge is closed through Thursday for repairs.

Local environmental advocacy organization Southside ReLeaf was awarded $25,000 from the Robins Foundation. From the press release: Robins Foundation has awarded Southside ReLeaf $25,000 in…

A fairly useful network of bike lanes has taken shape in South Richmond, to the point where we can now talk about the quality of…