Al Weed — a conservationist, entrepreneur, winemaker, community leader, and US Army Special Forces veteran — founds Public Policy Virginia (PPV) to use grassroots communication to promote public policy initiatives focused on health, energy, and climate change in rural areas of Virginia.
January 2006
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