Is Arlington a role model for other counties that are just starting their environmental activism?
KELSCH: I hope we re a good role model. We get phone calls all the time. I recently talked to someone from Gresham, OR, which is a suburb of Portland. I found it fascinating that they were calling Arlington when they could go three miles and talk to their buddies in Portland. Frisco, TX, called me about all the things we re doing, yet it has a well-known residential green building program. I talked to a community in Oklahoma. I ve talked with Alexandria, Fairfax. I ve been invited to Montgomery County. I think with our land use plan and with the subway, we have a leg up on some places that may have entrenched infrastructure that s hard to work around. Yet there are always things you can do; you don t have to start with a clean slate. You can retrofit, you can tack things on, you can start doing things differently that may change in 20 or 30 years. Hopefully, we re providing that information. ALBERTS: Serving as a role model doesn t mean that we should be copied. Serving as a role model
