News article about Opportunity zones and food production. Topics include food deserts, solar power installations, and energy. Op-Ed piece in the Virginia Pilot arguing for Opportunity Zones to heal the
Virginian Pilot news article on Opportunity Zone fund to help bring solar benefits to low-income households in Norfolk.
Norfolk Academy news article on their solar panel installation. Learn about energy conservation, solar teaching opportunities, and technical aspects of the panels.
Virginia Pilot news article on Norfolk Academy solar panel installation. Learn about the background, process and current energy conservation
A news article about Children who change their parents’ minds about climate change. Focuses on Swedish teenager, Greta Thunberg, who mad a speech to the United Nations and is encouraging
Search in the database from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center to add real world data to your classroom setting. Data sets include research & citizen science data, climate science, wetlands,
Look at aerial images of chlorophyll, temperature, salinity, and primary productivity levels from the Chesapeake Bay remote Sensing Program based on year and location in the Bay.
View real time data on energy produced, today’s energy balance, cost and carbon savings from Norfolk Academy’s solar panels.
Information of financing solar energy, whether a nonprofit, business, or on a home. Included template documents, town hall files, and information on schools going solar.
Virginia Beach Case Study on Ruth McElroy Amundsen’s Opportunity Fund. Includes direct quotes, statistics, and background information.
