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.
Charlottesville, Albemarle: we are certifiable!
If there’s one thing the green movement isn’t short on, it’s talk. At first glance you might think that the certification of Charlottesville and Albemarle as “Green Governments” by the Virginia Municipal League is another example of hot air tinged green, but I think it’s probably a little more substantive than that.