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The Staunton Augusta Art Center and the Alzheimer’s Association Arts Fusion program, are offering an inaugural, collaborative art program to persons diagnosed with early to moderate Alzheimer’s disease (or a related dementia) and their caregivers.
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced this week $63 million in loans and grants for 264 renewable energy and energy efficiency projects nationwide that USDA is supporting through its Rural Energy for America Program (REAP).
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“Grapes versus eggs,” reports an excellent August 6 article in Sonoma County’s daily Press Democrat (PD). The Windsor Oaks Vineyard and Winery, seeking to expand its events, forced the closure of the popular Wise Acre Farm’s egg stand, disappointing many local food customers.
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Today coal still accounts for some 40 percent of worldwide electricity generation. The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts that global demand will continue rising to record levels, topping nine billion metric tons annually by 2019.
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In its eighth annual Citizenship & Sustainability Report, Dominion (NYSE: D) says the company’s carbon intensity rate – carbon emissions per unit of electric output from its generating fleet – declined by 28 percent from 2008 to 2014.
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Breathing healthy air is essential to life. That’s why the American Lung Association in Virginia welcomes the Clean Power Plan and wants to thank Senators Warner and Kaine for standing up for clean breathing air for Virginia’s nearly 164,000 children with asthma and the 1.1 million older adults who live in the state by supporting EPA’s new carbon pollution standard.
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Albemarle County has prepared a draft Action Plan describing how the County has contributed and will continue to contribute towards the cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay.
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New Public Policy Polling surveys in eight battleground states show great voter concern about climate change and strong support for the EPA’s Clean Power Plan seeking to slash harmful carbon pollution from power plants by 32 percent by 2030.
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Old Dominion University football has reached schedule agreements with Hampton and VMI for single games and a home and home series with Buffalo, Athletic Director Dr. Wood Selig announced on Wednesday.
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In 2013, Asa Eslocker and Harriett Jameson, then master’s degree candidates in the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture, traveled to Loma Linda, California; Sardinia, Italy; and Okinawa, Japan asking one question: Why are people in these communities living longer than the rest of us?
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