Are discovered by the Washington Post ; yay . Hat tip: Dave at the HooK It would have been nifty if they’d included links to the referenced coffee shops, so here they are: The Mudhouse Cafe Cubano Cville Coffee La Taza They left out Shenandoah Joe’s , Greenberry’s and a few others, but it’s still nice to be noticed.
Posts tagged Charlottesville
Monday Reading 04-28-2008
Darren the Problogger speed-posted in response to Twitter questions and left readers with a wealth of information EcoTech Daily’s Daily Five – Jetson Green’s Sprawl Home Discounts, Big City LEED and Codes, + Future of Green Buildings is good knowledge The unlucky .2% at the Foxfield Races The Real Cost of Tackling Climate Change – hint: it’s more than you might think (it’s a cultural change more than anything else) Today, the average residence in the U.S. uses about 10,500 kilowatt hours of electricity and emits 11.4 tons of CO2 per year (much more if you are Al Gore or John Edwards and live in a mansion). … The clear implication is that we shall have to replace virtually the entire fossil fuel electricity infrastructure over the next four decades with CO2-free sources – a multitrillion dollar proposition, if it can be done at all.
C-Ville has a blog
How did I miss that the C-Ville has a blog ? I saw them today when looking through the referrals to my site .
Transparent politics in Virginia
( Darn it )
Virginia is lucky and privileged to have access to some fantastic resources for investigating local and state-wide politics and politicians. … Combine VPAP’s work with Richmond Sunlight for insight into the Virginia General Assembly and Charlottesville Tomorrow for growth and politics information focused on Charlottesville and Albemarle and you have much of what you need to be an informed, involved and responsible citizen.
Where’s Charlottesville in the Case-Shiller index?
And today, Tuesday, there’s this : ‘Yale economist Robert Shiller, who developed one of the widely followed gauges of home prices, said in a speech Tuesday that home prices, which have already fallen about 15 percent from their peak in 2006, may fall further than the 30 percent drop experienced during the Great Depression of the 1930s, so far the biggest decline in home prices in the country. “Basically we are in uncharted territory,†Shiller said, noting that the 85 percent rise in home prices from 1997 to 2006 after adjusting for inflation had represented the biggest housing boom in U.S. history, so the fall in prices could be just as historic.’
Putting statistics into context that matters
C-Ville has a brief update on the Virginia real estate market today : Still, that doesn’t mean those $1 million homes are being snapped up hours after listing. … For a more broad, but sufficiently localized snapshot of the million dollar market** look at this snapshot and download this pdf . 
*Albemarle, Charlottesville, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Nelson **Albemarle, Augusta, Buckingham, Charlottesville, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Nelson, Waynesboro
Earth Day links
How to go Green in the kitchen Beat the credit squeeze by going green Get a home energy audit This is my carbon footprint: 
What’s yours? … To avoid misconceptions that I advocate going green in an attempt to abolish capitalism , know this – going green can save you money in the long term (short term thinking generally causes problems) – If you don’t want to ride your bike to save energy, do it because gas is so flipping expensive!