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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

 
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.

Elenor Hodges, Executive Director

3308 South Stafford Street
Arlington, VA 22206
703-228-6427
arlingtonenvironment.org
 
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IN THE MEDIA

Talking Trash
Posted Wed Mar 18 2009 by Arlingtonians for a Clean Environment  
"It was not a good start to the Annual Four Mile Run Watershed Clean-up Day on March 14. Grey skies and temperatures forecasted to be in the 40s encouraged me to get a late start at the Shirlington site." Alexandria writer and community volunteer Susan Hepler recorded her participation at the Shirlington site of the annual Four Mile Run Cleanup sponsored by Arlingtonians for a Clean Environment in partnership with the Arlington County Park Rangers. She was so inspired by her experience that she planned to repeat it at the 21st Annual Potomac River Watershed Cleanup the following month.
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