Erika Howsare has been a C-VILLE contributor since 2002. Her first nonfiction book is The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors (2024), and she hosted a podcast miniseries called “If You See a Deer.” She teaches writing locally.
One reader’s strategy to drastically limit car usage. Plus, today’s feature on the totally car-free!
At Random Row Wednesday night, learn about a Louisa farm that will run oil-free.
The vanguard of the local building industry may be slashing energy loads by up to 90 percent—creating the Picassos of energy-efficient architecture. But thousands of locals still live in the housing equivalent of a velvet Elvis: older homes built with little or no weatherization. “In the city of Charlottesville and Albemarle, in the 1950s and […]
Note to event organizers: Here’s a good way to encourage green behavior.
“This is a statement about the future,” says builder Bill Jobes, sitting in the dining area of the house on Lankford Avenue that his company just finished. Behind him, large windows wrap around the house’s southeast corner. A close look reveals that their sills are unusually deep, due to extra-thick walls. That thickness—plus a pervasive quiet […]
Passive House and other ways to stay comfortable in all kinds of weather.
Market Central’s secretary makes the case for attending the farm tour on Labor Day.