Welcome!
“While a complete solution to the climate change problem requires a worldwide effort, we believe that here in Hampton Roads, we can do our part more efficiently and more effectively by working together.”
If you live in Hampton Roads and you’re concerned about climate change, the impact it could have on you, your family, and your community, you’ve come to the right place.
HR3C.org is intended as a climate change resource for the Tidewater area. Whether you’re an elected official, a government employee, a business person or a citizen of the region, if you’re working to reduce your community’s carbon footprint through improved energy efficiency practices that will also result in saving money, then this site will be an asset to you.
We advocate a strategy whereby each locality embraces an ongoing process of measuring, reducing, and monitoring their municipal and community greenhouse (GHG) emissions. To be most effective, this process is monitored on an ongoing basis and refined whenever possible to further reduce emissions. Our goal is to help our local communities achieve emissions reductions and save money as quickly as possible by providing easy access to helpful materials and knowledgeable people.
Helpful Materials
On our site you’ll find tools and materials that can help reduce our region’s emissions. These tools include example baseline emissions reports, carbon calculators, example emission reduction plans, best practices, and links to other communities taking action here in Virginia and sharing their experiences. We’ve also included profiles of Hampton Roads communities that have committed to the goal of fighting climate change.
Knowledgeable People
We believe that by connecting people who have questions about measuring, monitoring and reducing emissions with others who are already making progress, we can accelerate the learning process through information sharing and avoid “reinventing the wheel”. We invite you to join in the discussion on the HR3C Discussion Group, where like-minded people can ask questions, offer solutions, exchange information as well as ideas. Other communities have been working to reduce their emissions for some time now, and they have talented people with much experience to draw upon.
How to Navigate Our Site
On each page, three menus exist that will take you to any site destination that interests you:
1) The Navigation Bar
At the top of each page you’ll find the main menu for our site - the Navigation Bar. This menu provides access to each and every page on our site. To proceed to a destination, click on an option that interests you. At this time two navigation bar options - About Us and Resources - have sub menus that you can then use to drill down on a particular topic.
2) HR3C Profiles
On the left side of each page, the HR3C Profiles shortcut menu shows a list of each community in Hampton Roads that has made a commitment to reducing it’s GHG emissions. Each Profile shows the progress that county or independent city has made toward measuring, reducing and monitoring their emissions. Click on any profile to see the progress that community has made. Profile pages will be updated as communities strive towards reducing GHG emissions, and more Profiles will be added as more communities commit to reducing their emissions.
3) New Cool Stuff!
On the right side of each page you’ll see the New Cool Stuff! shortcut menu. Here you’ll find the most recent news, upgrades to our web-site, and additions to our Resources page, where you’ll find materials and information that will help your community better navigate the process of reducing emissions.
Your 2 Ȼ Counts
Your feedback is invaluable to us. We think that with continued improvement, and ongoing updates, HR3C.org can become an extremely useful tool that Hampton Roads communities can come to again and again as they continually strive to reduce their carbon footprint.
So, how can we improve this site? What can we do to make this site a resource you come to regularly if you have questions or ideas on how our communities can make better and faster progress on reducing GHG emissions? Please let us know by either posting a suggestion on the HR3C Discussion board, or by sending us an email.