The city is going solar. Check this out! From the Office of the Press Secretary: Sunday evening the City will begin installing 44 Big Belly Solar Locations and their companion recycling units. The 88 receptacles will be placed at various locations throughout the City, including the downtown area and in several City parks. http://www.RichmondGov.com/.
WHO: Richmond Clean City Commission, Richmond Department of Public Works, and Central Virginia Waste Management Authority. WHAT: Drop off for all household electronic items, such as computers, monitors, radios, fax machines, microwaves, camcorders, etc. Fluorescent light bulbs and large appliances cannot be accepted. WHEN:Saturday, October 15, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: 3101 N. Boulevard [...]
I’m not sure how long these have been in place, but I know it’s not common knowledge that there are recycling bins downtown. I just learned of the one on Grace Street recently. For apartment and highrise residents this is a step forward. I hope more people start recycling now that they know were to go. [...]
As part of the River City Saunter, we were treated to tours of several historic rehab projects, one of which was an apartment project on 3rd Street that I noticed after the Tea Party convention. This building is lot more interesting than the industrial brick exterior would indicate.
Jackson Ward neighbors are seeking a parking restriction to help ensure that residents can more readily find parking: “We have a problem particularly during the day when people who work downtown, city hall, MCV, state, come in to the neighborhood, park their cars and leave them all day,” said Historic Jackson Ward Association President, Charles [...]
VCU’s Commonwealth Times has a piece on a neighborhood cleanup in Carver last weekend: An organized trash pickup brought students to the Carver community alongside the Carver Area Civic Improvement League Saturday. Despite Saturday’s cloudy weather, the Carver clean up brought 30 volunteers, including students and Carver residents. “We try to do a trash pickup [...]
Shawn Saharko recently posted this great look across Leigh Street.
From the nice people at Tricycle Gardens Come on out and join the folks at the Carver Community Garden for some SPRING CLEANING! (corner of Kinney & Leigh Streets). Saturday, April 18, 9AM-?.
Jackson Ward Spring Clean-Up Day! Meet at Abner Clay Park at the corner of Clay Street and Brook Road at 8AM.
Congressman Robert C. “Bobby†Scott will host a Town Hall meeting on Green Jobs and Clean Energy on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 6:30PM at the Adult Career Development Center (119 West Leigh Street). The town hall will be an opportunity to educate and inform citizens on new opportunities in a 21st century “green†economy.
More than 100,000 people rallied at Green Jobs Now events across the country “to urge leaders to jump start the clean energy economy [and] create real energy solutions that build a new green economy strong enough to create millions of green jobs and lift people out of poverty”. Twenty or so of the 100,000 were [...]
