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Green Map
The County has just created a new Green Resource Map in order to make “sustainable living” easier for County residents by providing a resource for residents to find out where they can reuse, recycle and/or properly dispose of common household items, highlighting Park & Ride sites to make carpooling easier, featuring farmers market locations so that residents can choose to “eat local”, and including green demonstration projects for residents to tour/visit/see, such as LEED certified buildings, rain gardens, solar energy sites, and green roofs. The Green Resource Map will be updated periodically. Click here to download your copy.
Rideshare
 RideShare is a program of the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission working to reduce traffic congestion and increase mobility throughout the City of Charlottesville and the Counties of Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, and Nelson.
RideShare offers free carpool and SchoolPool matching, a vanpool start-up service, and operate a Guaranteed Ride Home program, which provides free rides home in an emergency to users of alternative transportation. RideShare also works with employers to develop and implement traffic reduction programs.
For more information on RideShare, please click here.
Piedmont Environmental Council's Buy Local Initiative
 The Buy Fresh Buy Local Campaign helps consumers find and choose local products while building relationships between growers, food artisans, farmers’ markets retailers, restaurants, and institutions. This online food guide and corresponding printed guide (available free at locations throughout Charlottesville and Albemarle, Greene, Nelson, Fluvanna and Louisa Counties) make it easy for you to buy local foods from local farmers and suppliers whose growing methods you may support.
For more information on the Buy Local program, click here.
Better World Betty
 Better World Betty is a fun and useful new website dedicated to green living, sustainable services, products and companies in the Albemarle area. Betty wants to make green living easier on a day-to-day basis right here in Charlottesville, and says that big changes start with small steps. This site contains a calendar of events, eco-friendly shopping advice via the business directory, and information on local recycling and donation.
Click here to use Betty’s “reduce, reuse or recycle” tool, which offers a quick way to find out the what, where, and when of donating and recycling here in the Albemarle/Charlottesville area.
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