Leader of the Month – May 2025

Dreame Boyd - Richmond Chapter Dreame is an active and contributing member to the Richmond Chapter and the statewide Housing Strategy Committee. She has participated in several wor ...
Featured Community Partner | Preserve Giles County

This month, we are highlighting the Preserve Giles County as our Featured Partner. This article is a repost from September 2022. Preserve Giles County is currently involved with op ...
Leader of the Month – April 2025

Terry "Bean" White - Norfolk Chapter Bean has been a member of the Norfolk Chapter for close to a decade, and has been a valuable participant in our local and statewide work. He fi ...
Leader of the Month – March 2025

Kimberly Dyke-Harsley - Lynchburg Chapter Kimberly has been a wonderful contributing leader in the Lynchburg Chapter. Her involvement with VO has included giving the chapter accomp ...

Featured Community Partner | On the Level

April 27, 2022(0) Comments

The climate crisis is an “all hands on deck” kind of thing. We are in a historical moment that requires the political will for a massive collective response that will fundamentall ...

Center for Sustainable Communities – Featured Community Partner

February 28, 2022(0) Comments

Addressing the impacts of the climate crisis demands big solutions and big initiatives because the climate crisis is driven by big, systemic human behaviors. Grassroots resistance ...

Featured Community Partner – Friends of Buckingham

January 27, 2022(0) Comments

The citizens of rural Buckingham County are becoming experts on polluting industries, because they are living through a kind of double jeopardy: they helped defeat the Atlantic Co ...

Featured Community Partner | POWHR

December 21, 2021(0) Comments

It's a place where great beauty and ugliness collide. It's a landscape of forests and mountains that is home to human and more-than-human creatures who have held it as sacred for ...

Featured Community Partner | AMMD Pine Grove Project

November 23, 2021(0) Comments

The AMMD Pine Grove Project is a historic preservation initiative with a mission to “protect, restore, and repurpose the historic Rosenwald Pine Grove Elementary School” located i ...

Featured Community Partner – Little Bluestem

July 22, 2021(0) Comments

A Visit to Little Bluestem by Eric Olson-Getty, Director of Programs Our day started with a pinch of dried tobacco sprinkled gently on the forest floor. I had never done anything ...

Environmental Justice in the News

April 20, 2021(0) Comments

Executive Director Brian Johns recently published an op-ed in the Roanoke Times about the difficulty of getting environmental justice legislation passed in the General Assembly. B ...

Environmental Justice Town Hall with U.S. Rep. Don McEachin

March 30, 2021(0) Comments

On March 25, Virginia Organizing leaders and partners from other environmental justice organizations discussed proposed legislation in Congress and issues their communities face. ...

General Assembly Visits – Going Strong!

January 28, 2020(0) Comments

Several chapters have sent representatives to visit the General Assembly so far this session. Eastern Shore, Shenandoah Valley Chapters, Newport News, and Norfolk went earlier thi ...

Virginia Organizing to Hold Community Meeting to Improve Public Transportation

September 06, 2019(0) Comments

What: Community Meeting to demand better public transportation services in Newport News When: Saturday, September 14 at 1 p.m. Where: Huntington Park, ac ...

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Leader of the Month – May 2025

Featured Community Partner | Preserve Giles County

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