Sunday, January 24, 2010

How Energy Efficient Will New Arlington Public Buildings Really Be?

How energy efficient will new Arlington County public buildings really be? Arlington Mill Community Center? Wakefield HS? Walter Reed Career Center? Your observatons? A.Y.

16 comments:

fairgrrl said...

Hi Yupette,

Here is a link to the design specifications (in a pdf file) for the solar and geothermal installation at Minnie Howard School in Alexandria:

http://www.acps.k12.va.us/green/design-renewable-energy-system.pdf

R said...

Hi,

Someone pointed me to your blog.

I live in Roanoke and we are experiencing the same "$$mart Growth" bull$hit gentrification as Arlington, though Roanoke is about 10 years behind Arlington.

I would like to see a thread about $$mart Growth gentrification as racist and elitist neo-apartheid, which it definitely is.

PS. You should correct the spelling of your Board of Supervisors' Chair's name - it's Fi$$ette.

R in Roanoke

22204 said...

Arlington Mill will NOT be energy efficient.

Anonymous said...

Arlington Mill's design contract will be on the County Board's agenda at the continued County Board meeting - January 26th at 6:30 PM.

Anonymous said...

In other states it's illegal to construct energy-inefficient public infrastructure. For example, local and state governments can't legally spend tax dollars to install mercury vapor street lighting but must install sodium and LED street lighting.

Anonymous said...

Post and Sun-Fi$ette just ran articles about the latest green gimmick, solar powered parking meters.

Anonymous said...

Dude, it's spelled " $un Fi$ette ".

Anonymous said...

NY Times yesterday - Wind Power is going to be really really big in the future.

22205 said...

County Board is in the left pocket of Dominion Resources. Media are in the right pocket.

Anonymous said...

Presidnet Obama constantly talks about Green jobs. What are local Democrats doing? Cozying up to the fossil fuel corporations.

Anonymous said...

Environment? What Environment? Obama will pave the USA to get the economy going and light the pavement with power from nuke energy and oil from off the East Coast.

L O L said...

$un Fi$ette editor $cott McCaffrey is in Tampa this week. So what's he reporting in the $un Fi$ette blog? NOT the high speed rail project between Tampa and Orlando. Nope. The new high speed roller coaster at King's Dominion.

Anonymous said...

We don't need an Inspector General in state and local government. We need the local news media to start doing investigative journalism.

Joan said...

Agreed. See what happened when the Post investigated WMATA?

Pikester said...

First thing that would happen if the $un Fi$ette stopped being a PR outlet for County Government is the FC News Press would start an Arlington Edition which would be distributed all over N. Arlington.

Anonymous said...

Anyone know about renewable energy at the Walter Reed Career Center? School system just received $3.3 million in stimulus funding for renovations.