Arlingtonians for a Clean Environment
| WISH LIST
$100: 3 neighborhood
meetings about the Green Living
Challenge;
$500: 12 service projects
to improve parks and streams;
$2500: launch of the online Green
Business Directory
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With views of the Potomac River, and the nation’s monuments on the other
shore, Arlington residents have good reason to appreciate the beauty of their
environment. But becoming an environmental steward can be challenging when
you live in a hi-rise condo, so Arlingtonians for a Clean Environment provides
multiple ways to get involved. For 28 years, they have sponsored stream and
highway cleanups, invasive plant removals, and storm drain markings. Their
annual garden tour features local homes and public buildings with a variety of watershed-friendly elements:
cisterns, rain barrels, rain gardens, backyard wildlife habitats, and native plants. Homeowners and neighborhood
associations get practical advice from Arlington’s Green Living Challenge (in a county nationally recognized as a
leader on environmental issues and green buildings) and schoolchildren learn first hand the value of a clean
environment by improving their schoolyards and participating in one of ACE’s 15 annual cleanups. Recipient of
the EPA’s first award for “Smart Growth” in 2002, Arlington and ACE are targeting a 10% emissions reduction by
2012. You can pitch in, too.
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