Inger Rice Honored for Commitment to Going Green

Style Weekly and Dominion Resources honored Inger Rice as one of this year’s Green Heroes at the Richmond Earth Day Festival April 25.

Rice’s generous donation to Virginia Commonwealth University of 342 acres in Charles City County ensured the conservation of the land’s natural and cultural resources, and numerous teaching opportunities for the university. She also donated funds to build the Rice Center's Walter L. Rice Education Building, which went on to become the first LEED Platinum building in Virginia.

Today, the Inger and Walter Rice Center for Environmental Life Sciences is VCU’s field station devoted to a broad array of environmental research, teaching and public service. The center also is very active in undergraduate and graduate educational activities, providing field-based instruction for a number of courses taught at VCU. Many outreach education programs also are taught throughout the year at the center, focused on environmental education for K-12 schoolchildren, their teachers and lifelong learners.

The Green Heroes awards honor ordinary individuals and business that have made extraordinary contributions to the green movement.