Environment

Feminist Bird Club RVA is hosting meet-up for the Great Backyard Bird Count on Saturday 2/15 at Fonticello Food Forest: For the 4th year in…

The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival features a selection of films “that inform, inspire, and ignite solutions and possibilities to…

The Planning Commission meets Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at City Hall, and will consider the following projects in the area: Ord. No. 2024-328 To authorize…

Tracks & Roots is hosting a plant ID and foraging class at Forest Hill Park on Saturday, March 29: Get fresh air and exercise while…

The James River Branch Trail will be an an approximately 2-mile long, 10-foot wide paved multi-use trail on an a former CSX rail bed that…

From the Friends of the James River Park: An alert friend of the Park was hiking at Wetlands a few mornings ago, and came across…

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…