We attended the Virginia Conservation Network-Va. League of Conservation Voters-Va. Garden Club training, Legislative Lobby Day 2008. The hall was crowded; about 300 people with a variety of conservation interests from all over the state attended, including half a dozen of our friends from up the road at the Williamsburg CAN.
(BTW, look beyond the roses before you pooh-pooh the Va. Garden Clubs; they are formidable–an extremely large, active, effective, and well-connected conservation group who are take quite seriously by the General Assembly.)
During the day we met with six Hampton Roads legislators or their legislative assistants during the day to express our support for many pending acts:(a complete list can be found on our site http://www.twcan.org/docs.cfm, ga2008.pdf ) 
- SB 446 Clean Energy Future Act; the Chesapeake Climate Action Network’s flagship bill bringing clean energy, clean jobs training and clean jobs to Virginia
- HB 650 Department of Environmental Quality; maintaining the 62-year history and authority of Virginia’s Citizens Boards.
- SB 625 Bipartisan Redistricting Commission; to stop the endless political gerrymandering of district lines and inserting some rational guidelines into the process
- SB 320 to end covenants restricting solar energy collection devices
- HB 153 Solar water heating system pay-as-you-save pilot program, to make solar hot water more affordable for more people.