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2016 Annual Meeting Set for June 30

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2016 Annual Meeting Set for June 30

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Save the Date for the Resilient Virginia Annual Meeting!

Date: Thursday, June 30, 2016
Location: City Space, On Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall
100 5th St. NE, Charlottesville, VA 22902
Schedule:
Noon–3:00 PM: Resilient Virginia Annual Meeting for Members, Partners and Friends

Join the Resilient Virginia Board of Directors, Members, Partners and Friends for lunch and an afternoon of lively presentations on:

  • The newly created GoGreen Virginia Resiliency Checklist for the Virginia Municipal League and Virginia Association of Counties Local Government Challenge. Speaker: Annette Osso, Managing Director, Resilient Virginia (gogreenva.org)
  • Direct current, microgrids and “transactive energy” systems as the “new deal” in energy security. Presenter: Terence Hill, Senior Policy Advisor, EMerge Alliance (emergealliance.org)
  • Charlottesville’s LocalFoodHub, which connects small farms with local customers and provides food access initiatives – Speaker: Adrianna Vargo, Director of Grower Services, LocalFoodHub (localfoodhub.org).
  • Just confirmed! Angela Navarro, Deputy Secretary of Natural Resources will provide an update on the Clean Power Plan implementation.

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