Kelley Slagle, Realtor

04/28/2026

The green wave is happening! ☀️

For more than a century, the world has run on coal.

When Thomas Edison’s Pearl Street electrical station in Lower Manhattan fired up in 1882, it ran on coal. Coal survived the oil era, the nuclear era, the dash for natural gas, and decades of back-and-forth climate policy. From the 1970s through the mid-2010s, coal supplied somewhere between 35 and 40% of the planet’s electricity, a steady if sooty presence powering modern life.

Then last year, it lost the lead. As coal has declined, solar power has increased.

For 21 years running, solar has been the fastest-growing source of electricity on the planet. In 2025 it surpassed wind for the first time, and is now on pace to pass nuclear this year.

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04/01/2026

Fifteen households have committed to buying into Rooted Northwest, a co-housing community near Arlington, WA, where 70 homes will be clustered on 240 acres of farmland with 93% of the land preserved for gardens, forest, and farming. The group pooled their money in 2020 to buy the land from an elderly farmer before developers could snap it up. "We can't afford to lose it. We have to help save it," says project manager and cofounder Dave Boehnlein.

03/27/2026

Save this article! This has everything you need to know about heat pumps. So when it comes time to replace your hvac system read this first and you will have everything you need to make the best choice for your house.

Here’s the single biggest change you can make to reduce your home’s energy use.

02/12/2026

09/25/2025

Air purifiers can significantly reduce airborne pollutants - add one to your home today!

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09/21/2025

Spotted lanternflies are everywhere. They don’t fly—they teleport. Stomping one is like playing Whac-A-Mole on expert mode—except the mole destroys your trees. 🪰
Read below for more ways to help reduce their numbers.

Spotted Lanterfly are everywhere in Central Virginia. How can we help curtail their numbers? Glad you asked here are some solutions that if we use them all we can cut their numbers drastically. Let's use nature to solve this problem with a little help from us.

*️⃣ Birds: Birds eat bugs so stop spraying pesticides and attract birds. Birds such as bluebirds, cardinals, chickadees, house wrens, and gray catbirds along with robins, tufted titmice and even chickens are all eating the spotterd lanterfly.
*️⃣Insects: praying mantis, spiders, and wheel bugs are predators of the spotted laternfly.
*️⃣Mammals: chipmunks have been observed eating them as have native bats!
*️⃣Plants: add native milkweed to your landscape. The spotted laternfly eat the milkweed and this causes the insect to die. This is because its sap contains cardiac glycosides which are poisonous to them, even though lanternflies are attracted to the plant's sweet sap.
And finally *️⃣Humans: remove tree-of-heaven from your yard. You can also scrap the egg masses off trees in the next few months. This stops the next generation!

So let's all work together and help nature eradicate these insects!

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