Two Weeks Until a Greener Eckington-Truxton Circle Neighborhood

The November 7 election is only two weeks from today. Hard to believe how fast the past two months have gone. The flowers you see here are my attempt at landscaping the front of my house. At least it's better than I found it.

On Saturday, I sat down with Sarah, who lives in Le Droit Park, at Windows Cafe to lay the groundwork for an organization that will have two objectives: (1) street cleaning teams and (2) promoting energy efficiency and conservation. I raised the subject of defining the organization's geographic boundaries by using the local single member district ANC boundaries of 5c-02, 5c-03, and 5c-06.

During our meeting, Merrit Drucker from the D.C. Office of the Clean City joined us. He provided some interesting admissions, such as "Street sweeper is a broken program." We've been moving our cars and searching for parking on sweep days for only marginal benefits, apparently. In addition, street sweepers may in fact incentivize littering because people may think that the sweeper will clean the streets, regardless of where the trash is dropped.

Merrit raised the possibility of a bottle deposit bill, and also stressed that commercial recycling needed to be "radically increas[ed]."