Project Green Light is designed to address the multi-faceted problem of incandescent light bulb inefficiency and consumer wariness of compact fluorescent light bulbs. ...
READ MOREHoos Local: providing a constantly expanding resource to educate and increase awareness about local food options and opportunities in Charlottesville to the Uva community....
READ MOREClothing is not very well considered when one decides to live a “green” lifestyle. Our objective is to make our student body aware of the importance of wearing and supporting sustainable clothing....
READ MORERestaurants generate an unbelievable amount of waste, which simply sits in a landfill decaying and releasing harmful methane gas into the atmosphere. So we worked with a local, family-owned farm, Timbercreek Organics, to promote restaurant composting....
READ MORETo assist in AHIP and Charlottesville’s Block by Block initiative in the 10th and Page neighborhood by eliminating substandard housing and keeping affordable housing....
READ MOREThe goal of this project is to research some of the most well known up-and-coming sustainability building techniques, LEED, Passive House, EarthCraft, and Energy Star, in order to assess whether they would be beneficial for the Albemarle Housing Improvement Program (AHIP) to incorporate into their...
READ MOREProblem: the energy inefficiency of older homes in Crozet and lack of education on how to make the home more sustainable....
READ MOREIn search of a successful green construction method for the Albermarle Housing Improvement Project to use in their local housing renovations....
READ MORETo assist the Albemarle Home Improvement Program in implementing a sustainable approach to renovations of low-income housing, our team has focused on identifying precedent programs/projects to inform possible approaches and funding strategies....
READ MOREPrecedent and financing on an urban level: to find relevant examples that Albemarle Housing Improvement Program could apply to their project site....
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