Thursday, December 31, 2015

Rivers, Lakes and the Carbon Cycle

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my backyard A new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences documents that significant mounts of carbon tha...
Monday, December 28, 2015

Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015 Becomes Law

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Earlier this month the House passed the bill, the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015 . On Friday, December 22nd before congress left town, th...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

Sea Level Rise is Due to More than Climate Change

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Within 50 years the Tangier Islands a complex of what are now several islands in the Virginia waters of the Chesapeake Bay will be mostly...
Monday, December 21, 2015

Keeping the Rural Crescent Rural

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Last week I was part of a presentation to the Planning Commission in support of rural economic development using both the comprehensive ...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Agriculture, Soil and Carbon Sequestration

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Last week I spent several days in Richmond at the annual meeting of the Virginia Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts. It ...
Monday, December 14, 2015

Climate Deal Reached in Paris

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As dawn broke on Saturday morning the Climate negotiators and ministers who had been meeting behind closed doors in Le Bourget in north-east...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

More Well Stories- VAMWON Notes from the Field

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VAMWON Notes from the Field are the stories of the questions I’ve encountered as a volunteer with VAMWON. The Virginia Master Well Owner Ne...