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.
Green Scene takes on fossil fuels in this week’s news.
Developers have let graded sites remain bare for months while soil washes away. That just got tougher to do.
Last week, C-VILLE reported on what the local community has spent thus far to develop a much-scrutinized water supply plan. As a July 27 update on our website indicated, we received a key piece of information after the print deadline for the story had passed: the amount that the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) […]
Five years ago, David and Jordan Phemister were feeling pretty good about what they’d just bought: an 800-square-foot bungalow in a prime Belmont location. Built in 1920, it still had original flooring and plaster, plus a charming front porch. Though it was small, it was enough space for the two of them. The Phemisters travel […]
Bisphenol A on home canning lids, plus some happier news from the world of green.
Is there an underground tank leaking near your house? How would you know?
Yesterday marked at least the third time I have found a flyer for Kleen’n’Team on my vehicle after parking it downtown.
It’s been more than a month since the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) announced on June 25 that it had fired Gannett Fleming, the engineering firm that developed the community’s water supply plan approved in 2006. What does the change mean for the ongoing debate about the plan? Unsurprisingly, it depends whom you ask. […]
Air-conditioning has become – even for some folks in Florida – a luxury to be shunned.
It’s a lovely time of year, when you open the fridge and see two and a half cabbages, eight summer squash, two giant bags of basil, four (four!) cucumbers…