The Back Porch Energy Initiative has been on quite a roll the past few weeks. Successes abound, with the general trials and tribulations of bussing around the country with a mission to promote an issue important to us all. We’re hitting all four corners of Virginia, three technically, bringing faces and feeling to energy conservation and sustainability issues in the United States.
But its not us witnessing the successes of our programs, its the Virginia community at present. We haven’t met a sad face yet. Everyone we’ve spoken to, literally, has been at least supportive if not active in transforming this issue into something genuinely positive, helping us help them to form a community network of invested partners in energy awareness activism. We realize this takes time and effort, and that’s what we’re here to donate.
An enormous honor was recieved by Virginia Walters, our Executive Director. Style Weekly, “Richmond’s alternative for news, arts, culture, and opinion,” awarded Virginia as one of the five “GREEN HEROES” in Central Virginia. Standing beside established professionals from around the region, Virginia accepted the award as a part of the whole. Style Weekly found it necessary and important to reward environmentally focused activities in the region, and we couldn’t be happier to be a small part of those activities. Together we can change the world.
Back on the road, we recieved an offer from Twin Oaks, an intentional community in Louisa County, to host us for the week. We pulled onto the farm and were immediately at home, eating local, organic and community grown foods, sleeping by the heat of a wood burning stove, and surrounding ourselves with passionate, involved and extremely warm people.
Which brings us to now. We’re on the road and heading south, a brief stop coming up in Wise County, Virginia where we’ll be volunteering on a strong environmental justice campaign in the area. Until then, you know where you can find us… (by jon)
