November 20, 2024 Dear Friend of American Climate Partners, In 1731, the Pennsylvania General Assembly received a petition from Lancaster County, Pa. residents. Conestoga Creek had been dammed by miller Stephen Atkinson for his textile mill operation. The petition complained that the great quantities of fish once available upstream were stuck below the dam. Atkinson […]
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Category: American Climate Partners
Below is the second of four messages sent each week in November about how our organization is working to fix the climate. November 14, 2024 Dear Friend of American Climate Partners, Microbes, organisms which are too small to be seen with the naked eye, have always been here – for four billion years, according to […]
Below is the first of four messages sent each week in November, 2024 about how our organization is working to fix the climate. November 7, 2024 Dear Friend of American Climate Partners, I had the good fortune to volunteer as a Greene County Election Official at the Dyke, VA precinct yesterday. Arriving at 5 am […]
American Climate Partners welcomes Dr. Joel Temme to the Board of Directors. Joel is also on the Board of Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action and has a house in the Village of Rapidan, VA. He is passionate about the intersection of human health and climate with a particular interest in how rural areas can provide […]
Robert W. “Doc” Hall passed away on February 16, 2024 at the age of 86 https://www.gcdailyworld.com/story/3029995.html. I first met Doc many years ago at a Montreat College https://www.montreat.edu/ retreat I attended with my mother-in-law Virginia Bethune. The conference topic was on intersections between the Presbyterian Church and Ecology. It was at this conference I also […]
ACP Board of Directors at their 1st Quarter Director’s meeting voted unanimously to welcome Orange County Farmer Michael Carter to the Board. Michael Carter Jr. is an 11th generation farmer in the United States and is the 5th generation to farm on Carter Farms, his family’s century farm in Orange County, Virginia where he gives […]
We formulate our own all natural pasture and turfgrass amendments at Historic Rapidan Mill, Rapidan, VA. We call these Biogenicals and are a blend of naturally occurring compounds designed to maximize the health of ecolawn vegetation. Evaluation of our products and services is continuous. Our interests include impact on soil carbon, water holding capacity, greenhouse […]
I know memories are fuzzy things, but my guess is the average stay of our 18-30 aged employees is a year. When I close my eyes I can see many dozens of young people, in groups, and teams hauling trash out of rivers, tending soil microbes, planting native grasslands and successional forests, then gone like […]
ACP Board of Directors and Staff is thrilled to have Former Director Page Sullenberger join our Board of Advisors. Page helped lead the Center through substantive changes – a new location at Rapidan Mill, a new Development arm of the Center, and new strategic foci. Page’s roots run deep in the Piedmont and Shenandoah Valley […]
Earlier this year the VWHC awarded the 2021 Pollinator and Quail Habitat Conservation Award to Mark and Ann Kington – Owners of Grellen Farm – for their continued work to create large tracts of wildlife habitat in the Rapidan watershed of Central Virginia.