Welcome to the Hampton Roads Environment and People VCC. The main mission of our community is to utilize virtual tools to better engage with all societal stakeholders in Hampton Roads and to have a broad dialog about the future we want for Hampton Roads.
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[Sep. 15, 2025] Solar Schools: What’s Possible?: Third Act Tidewater and Partners Sierra Club, Environment VA, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, and VA League of Conservation Voters are promoting Solar Schools in Hampton Roads. The Event takes place on Saturday, October 18, 2025, 10:30 - 12:00, at Norfolk Academy. During the interactive event, tour the solar installation, listen to speakers and ask questions. For more information and to sign up go to Action Network.
[Aug. 26, 2025] Measure the Muck 2025:
The 2025 sessions for Measure the Muck have been announced. The dates are September 13 and October 11, 2025. See the announcement with a link for registration. Volunteers are needed!
[Jun. 13, 2025] Every Day is NO KINGS DAY: On Saturday, June 14, 2025 there were three "No Kings Day" actions in Hampton Roads. But that day was not THE No Kings Day. Actions go on because every day must be a No Kings Day!
Platform News
[Jan. 09, 2026] Ocean Heat Content Sets Another Record in 2025: The analysis published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences reveals that global ocean warming continued unabated in 2025 in response to increased greenhouse gas concentrations and recent reductions in sulfate aerosols. In the article by Damian Carrington published in The Guardian, John Abraham, a member of the analysis team, is quoted: “Global warming is ocean warming. If you want to know how much the Earth has warmed or how fast we will warm into the future, the answer is in the oceans.”
[Dec. 21, 2025] How to tackle the Human Emergency: In his blog How to become Earth Citizens, Julian Cribb states that “we are now living amid the greatest emergency in humanity’s million-year tenure of the Earth.” He underlines that this emergency comprises ten existential threats that can not be addresses separately: Extinction, Resource Scarcity, Global Poisoning, WMD, Hothouse Earth, Food Scarcity, Uncontrolled Technologies, Pandemics, Overpopulation, Misinformation. “The Council for the Human Future describes this constellation of threats as ‘ the human emergency’.” Cribb emphasizes that “if we want to survive, humans must first agree to survive.” The Council for the Human Future “considers that now is the time for a new kind of human to emerge – the Earth Citizen.” This is what we also aim for here at Place4Us.
