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  • Mobility Alliance Meeting + Social

    Decipher Brewing 1740 Broadway Street, Charlottesville

    Gather at Decipher Brewing to talk walking, biking and getting outside with the Piedmont Mobility Alliance Friday, Aug. 8!

  • Nature Photography Walk at the Piedmont Memorial Overlook

    Bring along your camera or smartphone for a collaborative photography walk and learn with PEC’s Hugh Kenny and October Greenfield. Hugh and October will guide participants in how to take their best nature photos while enjoying the beauty of the Piedmont Memorial Overlook.

  • Bird Box Workshop

    Building Goodness Foundation 128 Carlton Road, Charlottesville, Virginia

    Join Building Goodness Foundation to learn how to build a nest box and do your part to boost bluebird conservation efforts in Virginia. Attendees will be building the boxes to support the Piedmont Environmental Council's work to regrow grassland bird populations. All participants will also get to take one box home. No construction experience is […]

  • Two men stand in front of a barn, holding a sign that says "This property is permanently protected by a conservation easement"

    Generation NEXT Workshop: Landowner Legacy Planning

    Generation NEXT, a program of the Virginia Department of Forestry and Virginia Cooperative Extension, exists to help landowners and their families engage in legacy planning for their rural land.

  • Free Bridge Lane Workshop

    Sentara Martha Jefferson Outpatient Care Center 920 East High Street, Charlottesville, Virginia

    The Free Bridge Lane Workgroup convenes monthly to coordinate implementation of the car-free promenade along the Rivanna River in Albemarle County.

  • a small brown bird perches on a leafy tree branch

    Nature Journaling Workshop

    Montfair Resort Farm 2500 Bezaleel Drive, Crozet, Virginia

    Join the Piedmont Environmental Council and Botanical Artist Lara Call Gastinger at the Montfair Resort Farm Thursday, Sept. 4 for an nature journaling workshop.

  • Albemarle Data Center Community Meeting

    The Center at Belvedere 540 Belvedere Boulevard, Charlottesville, Virginia

    Join us for a community meeting Tuesday, Sept. 16 from 6-8 p.m. to hear from Julie Bolthouse, PEC’s Director of Land Use and one of the leaders of the Virginia Data Center Reform Coalition, about data centers’ environmental impacts and how advocating for regulations at the state and local level and transparency can achieve better outcomes for communities.

  • Loop de Ville Trail Fest + 3 Mile Walk

    Rivanna River Company 1520 East High Street, Charlottesville, Virginia

    Take part in the annual celebration of the beloved Rivanna Trail in Charlottesville (and National Public Lands Day). There are a wide-variety of hikes, runs, and bike rides of various distances, including the full 20-mile loop or half-loop. All activities will begin and then conclude with a finish line celebration at the Rivanna River Company. […]

  • Piedmont Mobility Alliance Meeting / Social

    Three Notch'd Craft Kitchen & Brewery 520 2nd St SE, Charlottesville, Virginia

    Join the Piedmont Mobility Alliance at Three Notch'd in Charlottesville Sept. 30 for drinks and discussion about the Week Without Driving and next year's Active Mobility Summit.

  • Conservation Funding Workshop & Social

    Powers Farm and Brewery 9269 Redemption Way, Midland, Virginia, United States

    You’re invited to this free workshop to learn more about sources of funding and technical assistance for conservation and land management! Join friends, neighbors and staff from the John Marshall Soil and Water Conservation District, Fauquier County’s Department of Agricultural Development, the Natural Resource Conservation Service and The Piedmont Environmental Council for an evening at Powers Farm & Brewery.

  • The WildRoots Festival

    Forrest Green Farm 2317 Evergreen Rd., Louisa, Virginia, United States

    Engage with nature through outdoor activities, wild edibles, foraging, hunting, and outdoor skills at this free event in Louisa, VA!

  • Tree Planting at Chancellors Rock Farm

    Chancellors Rock Farm 2096 Jericho Road, Flint Hill, VA

    Together, we will plant approximately 275 native trees in support of this working farm's commitment to enhance the riparian buffers growing between pastureland and tributaries to the Rappahannock River.

  • 5th Annual Rappahannock River Symposium

    This is an amazing opportunity to collaborate, learn, and connect with others who bring expertise in new research, funding opportunities, and a shared passion for promoting clean water and preserving our watershed. This […]

  • Impact of Data Center Boom on Virginia Communities

    Unitarian Universalist Church of the Shenandoah Valley 6380 Valley Pike, Stephens City, VA 22655

    Impact of the Data Center Boom on Virginia Communities is the subject of a live presentation to be given at UUCSV at 7:00 pm on Thursday October 16 by Julie Bolthouse, Director of Land Use for The Piedmont Environmental Council. This event is sponsored by WISE, the Winchester-area Interfaith Stewards of the Earth, and all interested persons […]

  • Charlottesville Wild & Scenic Film Festival

    Piedmont Virginia Community College - Dickenson Fine Arts and Performance Center 501 College Drive, Charlottesville, Virginia

    The Living Earth School is hosting the Wild & Scenic Film Festival for the fourth year, bringing this call to environmental activism event to Charlottesville. Join us to celebrate the […]

    $15 – $25

  • Salubria’s Oktoberfest & History Faire

    Historic Salubria 19173 Salubria Ln, Stevensburg

    This festive event at Historic Salubria in Culpeper County, on Saturday, Oct. 18 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., will transform the scenic grounds into a lively celebration of Virginia’s past and present.

  • Panoramic view of farmland, trees and mountains in Paris, VA.

    Fall Foliage Festival at Sky Meadows State Park

    Sky Meadows State Park 11012 Edmonds Ln, Delaplane, Virginia, United States

    Enjoy the beauty of fall in Virginia at the Fall Foliage Festival at Sky Meadows State Park in Paris, VA on October 18 and 19, 2025.

  • TEDxWarrenton: Unscripted Futures

    PEC's Senior Energy & Climate Policy Advisor Ashish Kapoor will be speaking at this year's TEDx event. Topic: Real Change Begins in the Radical Middle

  • Tree Planting at Courts of St. Francis

    Courts of St. Francis St. Francis Court, Purcellville, VA

    Together, we will plant approximately 75 native trees and shrubs in support of this residential community's commitment to protect the Purcellville waterways that flow into the Potomac Watershed and ultimately to the Chesapeake Bay.

  • Community Farm Heirloom Corn Grinding Demonstration

    Burwell Morgan Mill 15 Tannery Ln., Millwood, Virginia, United States

    Join PEC at the Burwell Morgan Mill as we grind our heirloom Hopi Blue Corn, grown at PEC's Community Farm at Roundabout Meadows, into cornmeal and grits.

    Free

  • Tree Planting at The EcoVillage of Loudoun County

    The EcoVillage of Loudoun County Hickory Shade Lane, Lovettsville, VA

    Together, we will plant approximately 220 native trees and shrubs to enhance the "common land" stewarded by this rural community just a few miles from the Potomac River. 

  • Corpse Botany Walk at the Piedmont Memorial Overlook

    Join The Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC), Smithsonian’s Virginia Working Landscapes (VWL), and Sustainability Matters for a corpse botany walk at PEC’s Piedmont Memorial Overlook to learn about native plant identification after meadow species have gone to seed!

  • Virginia Bluebird Society’s 2025 Annual Meeting & Program

    The Center at Belvedere 540 Belvedere Boulevard, Charlottesville, Virginia

    The Virginia Bluebird Society will hold its Annual Meeting on Saturday, Nov. 1 in person in at The Center at Belvedere in Charlotteville and via Zoom.

  • Halloween Bike Ride

    Charlottesville Community Bikes 917 #D Preston Avenue, Charlottesville, Virginia

    Get your costume, scare up some friends and join the Piedmont Mobility Alliance for a free, fun, relaxed and social bicycle ride through the streets of Charlottesville!

  • Chesapeake Watershed Forum

    National Conservation Training Center 698 Conservation Way, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States

    PEC's October Greenfield and Linnea Sherman will be speaking about opportunities for expanding the conservation toolbox.

  • Two male volunteers smiling at camera while planting trees on a hillside.

    Tree Planting at Rappahannock County Park

    Rappahannock County Park 7 Park Ln, Washington, Virginia, United States

    Together, we will plant approximately 150 native trees and shrubs to enhance the riparian buffer along the Rush River, a tributary of the Rappahannock River watershed.  

  • Conservation Open House in Etlan

    Ducard Vineyard 40 Gibson Hollow Lane, Etlan, Virginia

    The community is invited to a free, open house at Ducard Vineyards to mingle with each other and conservation practitioners in the area including the Piedmont Environmental Council, the Virginia Grassland Bird Initiative and the Shenandoah National Park Trust. We hope to meet Etlan landowners and managers and share about the many resources and support […]

  • Piedmont Mobility Alliance: December 2025 Meeting

    Water Street Center 407 East Water Street, Charlottesville, Virginia

    The Piedmont Mobility Alliance is a coalition of organizations, agencies, businesses and groups who share a vision of a better-connected community for walking, biking and other forms of active transportation […]

  • General Assembly Preview & Watch Party

    PEC Warrenton Office 45 Horner St, Warrenton, VA, United States

    Learn what issues we expect to come up during the 2026 General Assembly session! This is your best chance to hear about anticipated environmental legislation from statewide environmental experts ahead of Virginia's legislative session.

    $20