From connecting our bikeways into a valley-to-valley regional trail to vehicle sharing and restarting passenger rail to the NRV, there are many ways to reduce your transportation impacts and improve your life as you get from place to place.

You probably know about your local farmer’s market but do you know how it integrates with local food pantries through programs like Share the Spare and gleaning programs? Or how Community Supported Agriculture programs can benefit both you as a subscriber and the farmer you support?

Water: we drink it, bathe in it, paddle and swim in it, convey our waste with it, and so much more. We’re blessed with an abundance of water in our region, but we need to pay attention to how we take care of our natural and human-constructed infrastructure systems that affect it.

Some of the most urgent issues in our area have to do with current business and government activities that cause environmental impacts borne by local communities. The Mountain Valley Pipeline and the Radford Army Ammunition Plant are just two of the major “hot button” sources of environmental impacts in our area.