by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 5, 2022 | Solar
This article is in 4 parts. Part #1: updates and summary of the industrial scale Riverstone Solar project in Buckingham, southeast of Scottsville. Part #2 is the information about the upcoming public meeting on Tuesday June 7, 6 pm at the Buckingham VFW. Part #3 is a...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | May 9, 2022 | Solar
Five takeaways from the landmark Virginia Solar Survey Report on solar’s spread is first of its kind in Virginia After a slow start, solar has been booming in Virginia. From having zero large-scale solar farms in 2015, the commonwealth now has 51 in operation, with...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 28, 2022 | Solar
What are the pros and cons to Utility Scale Solar versus Community Solar? Many communities are facing these challenges as we move to decarbonize our energy sources. There have been a couple of community scale solar permits passed in Buckingham recently. The large,...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 29, 2020 | Events, Sustainability
Tish O’Dell, Community Organizer for Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, https://celdf.org will be speaking at University of Richmond Law School on Wednesday March 4, Noon-1 pm, Building 203, Room 114. University Map Tish has been a leading advocate in the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 26, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Events, Spiritual Ecology
On Wednesday December 11, 2019, The Rt. Rev. Susan E. Goff, Bishop Suffragan and Ecclesiastical Authority, Episcopal Diocese of Virginia came to Buckingham to see and hear for herself what social and environmental injustice looks like on the ground. Her first stop was...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 22, 2019 | Events, Press Releases, Spiritual Ecology
NETWORK Continues Nationwide Series of Rural Roundtables in Virginia VIRGINIA — Sister Simone Campbell, SSS, Executive Director of NETWORK Advocates for Catholic Social Justice and leader of Nuns on the Bus will meet with residents and community leaders from around...