Volunteers of All Ages Support the Friends of Peak Creek at the Heritage Park Pollinator Garden
“Why does she get to shovel all the mulch? It’s my turn!” These are words you don’t hear often and never expect from an 11-year-old. …
Poverty Creek Trails Coalition: A Partnership Improving Outdoor Recreation
Back in 2013, a small group of committed mountain bikers got together to explore how they might help with maintaining and improving the trails in …
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Storm Drain Mural Project
It is a common misconception that water entering a storm drain goes through some type of treatment process. In reality, storm drains are designed to …
Renew the New Event Goes Region Wide in 2017!
The 2017 ReNew the New clean-up event on August 26th marked the first time all four counties and the city held multiple volunteer events on …
Sustainability Week Partnership Wins Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award
In April, the Town of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech and a local citizens’ group, Sustainable Blacksburg received state-level recognition by winning a Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award …
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Blacksburg is Offering Housing Resiliency Grants to Town Residents
The Town of Blacksburg is creating a new program to help people address energy efficiency, accessibility and health and safety issues in their homes. Called …
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NRV Watershed Roundtable is Being Revived
On December 2nd, 2016, representatives from localities across the NRV and other interested parties, met to discuss re-establishing the New River Watershed Roundtable. The New …
Sustainability Week in Blacksburg: 10 years and counting
This year, the Sustainability Week Partnership, which includes the Town of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech, and Sustainable Blacksburg celebrated its 10th year. This long standing partnership …
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Blacksburg Climate Action Plan Approved
The Town of Blacksburg’s Sustainability Manager and members of the Climate Action Plan working group are pleased to announce that Blacksburg’s Climate Action Plan was …
Renew the New Cleanup Expands in the NRV- Join Us Aug. 27th
The successful river clean-up effort, known as ReNew the New has expanded this year to all NRV localities and will culminate in a regional clean-up …
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16 Frogs
There is a new project literally underfoot in Blacksburg that has potential for changing our built streetscapes, as well as restoring the health of one …
Planning for Floyd’s Future
Floyd County received a Planning Grant from the Virginia Housing Development Authority to develop options for revising it’s Subdivision Ordinance to allow for cluster development, …