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.
I’m reading some early Michael Pollan right now. It’s his book Second Nature, published in 1991, when I was first hearing scary reports about global warming.
The green world is much less pleased with Tom Vilsack for Agriculture Secretary than with other picks, like Stephen Chu in the Department of Energy.
Chris Schooley, until recently a leader in Stonehaus’s Belvedere project off Rio Road East
And welcome to another edition of Green Reads. We collect ’em, you inspect ’em. Then post your own links below.
The Retail Overlord plans to build a new store on the Wilderness battlefield. It’s a spot where 5,000 people died during the Civil War.
Fun fact of the day: Albemarle is a “primary federal disaster area.” So are Buckingham, Fluvanna and Greene Counties. The reason? Drought.
Edward Thomas paints places that may soon disappear. Meanwhile, not so far away, things even bigger than city neighborhoods are disappearing.
We’re coming up on the longest night of the year. As to whether these are dark days, as in bad times, read and judge for thyself.
Chris Schooley, a leader in the Belvedere project, now says LEED is not a good program for developers to sign onto.
So a couple of major news outlets are reporting on this wee ray of sunshine: More people are getting out of their cars and onto transit! Here’s the source: a report from the American Public Transportation Association stating that crazy gas prices have compelled Americans to ride transit 6.5 percent more frequently in the third quarter of this year than we did in the third quarter of 2007. That’s the biggest quarterly increase in 25 years.