Charlottesville Homes Turn Green

As dwindling natural resources get more expensive and harder to find, builders of Charlottesville new homes are getting very GREEN!

One notable new product is a combination of thin steel and styrofoam know as " Thermasteel."

The energy savings in Thermasteel is amazing.

The house is like a styrofoam cooler.

When it snows, the snow doesn't even melt on your roof. That's because there's such little heat escaping.

90% of American homes are stick built.

We need to have structurally sound homes that are light on natural resources and heavy on energy savings, says Charlottesville realtor, Toby Beavers.

Only a few new Charlottesville homes offer this.

One new Charlottesville development, Belvedere, will be totally green.

New Bars In Belmont In Charlottesville

The great Mexican chef,Chef Alex Monteil of Cocina del Sol, has opened Brasserie Montiel & Cofee House. Adam Frazier is opening a new bar in Belmont called ? It's located at 824 Hinton Ave and joins these fabulous Belmont hangouts: Mas, Saxx, La Taza & Belmont BBQ. Who knows what it'll be... Here's a new video we made of Belmont in Charlottesville

Fabulous new Charlottesville real estate

One of the most unique tracts of land in Albemarle county adjoining Farmington Country Club to the East & Ivy Creek to the West.

The property is truly a wildlife sanctuary with outstanding Blue Ridge Mountain views only five minutes from Charlottesville and the University of Virginia.

Road/trail system and extensive frontage on Ivy Creek.

The location says it all! Small compound with cottage, guest cottage with attached office/Studio. Live there while you build a Manor Home. Good pasture.

Additional acerage available.

Property subject to Conservation Easement with The Nature Conservancy.

UVA Museum 6th Century BC Italian Art Scandal

Problems for the University of Art Museum...

Two marble heads, three feet and three hands - called acroliths from the 6th century BC were apparently anonymously donated to the University with the condition "they not be publicized nor the identity of the donor revealed."

Now Sicily is saying they were illegally excavated in the late 1970s from Morgantina, an ancient Greek settlement in Sicily.

The heads are thought to be the goddesses Demeter and Persephone.

No one is sure if the acroliths are going back to Sicily as of Oct, 2007.

UVA Offers $5 To Behave When Drinking

Anheuser-Busch donated $2.5 million to UVA to establish the National Social Norms Institute.

And now UVA is giving $5 to students in bars who carry Blood Alcohol Concentartion cards to curb binge drinking.

I want mine!!

The Police are coming to Charlottesville November 6th.

John Paul Jones Arena

Housing sales in the Charlottesville real estate market fell 13.6% in July compared to a year ago.

Charlottesville is a buyers market!