Community action/Virginia
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| Location | Virginia, United States |
| Coordinates | 37° 7' 23.61" N, 78° 29' 33.98" W |
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Virginia.
News
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A ‘Secret Weapon’ for Fighting Climate Change Comes Surging Back, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 09, 2025) — Capturing carbon 35 times faster than the Amazon, seagrasses have faced centuries of decline. Now restoration projects across North America are seeing their meadows quadruple in size.
Networks and sustainability initiatives
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- Southwest Virginia Regenerative Ecoregion, how the project's 'story' is unfolding at the Doughnut Economics Action Lab, doughnuteconomics.org, added 15:37, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
Appalachian Voices is an American environmental organization. Their stated environmental concerns include eliminating air pollution, ending mountaintop removal, cleaning up coal ash pollution and promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency.
The organization has offices in Boone, North Carolina; Charlottesville, Virginia; Norton, Virginia; and Knoxville, Tennessee.
Appalachian Voices publishes "The Appalachian Voice," a news publication covering environmental and cultural news in the central and southern Appalachian region.
- Appalachian Voices, added 09:14, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
Events
[edit | edit source]Community energy
[edit | edit source]Wikipedia: Solar power in Virginia on rooftops is estimated to be capable of providing 24% of electricity used in Virginia
Climate action
[edit | edit source]Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Sustainable transport activism
[edit | edit source]Wikipedia: Hiking trails in Virginia (category)
Environment quality
[edit | edit source]Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
Open spaces
[edit | edit source]News archive
[edit | edit source]- 10m trees to be planted in US to replace ones destroyed by hurricanes, theguardian.com (Dec 31, 2024)
- The environmental campaigners fighting against data centres, BBC News (Nov 04, 2024)
- ‘Fear and intimidation’: how peaceful anti-pipeline protesters were hit with criminal and civil charges, theguardian.com (Sep 27, 2024)
- World’s Largest Seagrass Project Proves “You Can Actually Restore the Oceans”, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jul 06, 2021)
- Building new roots in America, one farmers market at a time, August 25, 2015...International Rescue Committee
About Virginia
[edit | edit source]Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. It borders Kentucky to the west, Tennessee to the south-west, North Carolina to the south, West Virginia to the north-west, and Maryland to the north. The state's capital is Richmond and its most populous city is Virginia Beach. With a population of 8.8 million, it is the 12th-most populous and 15th-most densely populated state. More than one-third of Virginia's population lives in Northern Virginia, which includes the most populous jurisdiction in the state, Fairfax County.
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Cite as | Philralph (2014–2025). "Community action/Virginia". Appropedia. Retrieved June 3, 2026. |