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		<title>Joint Comments on Green Building Incentive Policy Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[EcoAction Arlington, Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions, and Sierra Club Potomac River Group greatly appreciated the opportunity to participate in a staff-sponsored stakeholders’ roundtable in late August to discuss the County’s planned update to Green Building Incentive Policy (GBIP). We found the roundtable discussions to be frank and informative, giving us better insight into the perspectives and challenges faced by builders.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>November 2024 EcoAdvocate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[November 2024 NEWSLETTER Please let the County Board know that you want to see a robust building decarbonization program that will reduce energy use and phase out fossil fuels for &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>October 2024 EcoAdvocate</title>
		<link>https://www.ecoactionarlington.org/october-2024-ecoadvocate/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Advocacy Committee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 20:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Speaking up as Arlington County plans its future in big and small ways is important to make sure that all possible opportunities to address the climate and other environmental crises &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Let’s Make the FY2025 Budget a Climate Budget</title>
		<link>https://www.ecoactionarlington.org/lets-make-the-fy2025-budget-a-climate-budget/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Advocacy Committee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[EcoAction Arlington is urging the County Board to leverage its budget decisions to accelerate County efforts to achieve its carbon neutrality goal. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Now’s the Time to Start the Transition to Clean Electric ART Buses</title>
		<link>https://www.ecoactionarlington.org/nows-the-time-to-start-the-transition-to-clean-electric-art-buses/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Advocacy Committee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With the new ART Operations and Maintenance Facility, designed for battery electric buses (BEBs), moving toward completion in 2025, Arlington should commit to purchasing these buses for all new buses. &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Support Climate-Friendly, Healthy Schools</title>
		<link>https://www.ecoactionarlington.org/support-climate-friendly-healthy-schools/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Advocacy Committee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.ecoactionarlington.org/?p=22251</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[EcoAction Arlington, Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions Arlington Hub, and the Sierra Club Potomac River Group have recently sent two joint letters to the Arlington School Board and the APS Superintendent asking for firm commitments to carbon neutrality, including making ACC all electric for key systems, to protect our children’s future and to offer inspiration and experiential learning for students who may one day work in green economy jobs.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Weigh in on Arlington’s Ten-Year Capital Improvement Plan</title>
		<link>https://www.ecoactionarlington.org/cip6_22/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Advocacy Committee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2022 20:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.ecoactionarlington.org/?p=20262</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Arlington County needs to do more to meet the challenges of the rapidly unfolding climate crisis. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Arlington County Board Needs to Invest More in Climate Change Action</title>
		<link>https://www.ecoactionarlington.org/invest_more/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Advocacy Committee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2022 19:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.ecoactionarlington.org/?p=19343</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Business as usual is not an option. I look to County Board members to do everything within your power to take action to prevent the worst impacts of climate change and help build a sustainable and livable future for my family and future generations.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Urge Amazon to Make PenPlace HQ2 Zero Carbon</title>
		<link>https://www.ecoactionarlington.org/urge-amazon-to-make-penplacehq2-zero-carbon/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Advocacy Committee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.ecoactionarlington.org/?p=18828</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[The PenPlace Project, Amazon’s HQ2 complex, demonstrates outstanding elements of sustainable design and has the potential to become the first commercial zero carbon building in Arlington, helping to normalize advanced &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Building Electrification Key to County’s Carbon Neutrality Goal</title>
		<link>https://www.ecoactionarlington.org/building-electrification-key-to-countys-carbon-neutrality-goal/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Advocacy Committee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2021 19:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With buildings accounting for about 60 percent of Arlington’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, electrification&#8211;elimination of onsite combustion of fossil fuels, primarily natural gas&#8211;in homes and commercial and residential buildings is &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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