Engaging Our Community in
Caring for Our Environment
EcoAction Arlington educates, advocates, and acts to create a sustainable community by improving our natural environment, encouraging environmentally-friendly behaviors, ensuring environmental justice, and addressing the climate crisis.
We work to engage everyone in Arlington, VA to collectively promote and create an eco-friendly community. With programs like EcoAmbassadors (launching Fall 2025), the Tree Planting Program, park and stream cleanups, group and corporate service projects, and environmental presentations, EcoAction Arlington offers many ways to engage with the planet on a hyperlocal level.
GetGreen Arlington
Arlington County, in partnership with EcoAction Arlington, has officially launched the GetGreen Arlington mobile app!
- Discover local green initiatives
- Earn exclusive rewards
- Participate in interactive climate action challenges
- Join a community making a difference!
Download ‘GetGreen Arlington‘ on the App Store or Google Play today and start making a difference, one small action at a time.
Moving Forward with a Gas-Powered Leaf Blower Ban
Arlington County is considering prohibiting the use of gas-powered leaf blowers with a possible phase-out period of up to three years. Your feedback will help shape how the County moves forward. Share your thoughts in a questionnaire by October 29. Read comments on “Moving Forward with a Gas-Powered Leaf Blower Ban” to Arlington County Board from EcoAction Arlington, Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions Arlington and Sierra Club-Potomac River Group on June 27, 2025.
Fall 2025 The EcoAdvocate
Let’s Ban Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers In Arlington Arlington County, responding to strong public pressure, is considering updating its noise ordinance to ban gas-powered leaf blowers – a serious noise, worker …
Register For A Free Native Tree with Arlington County
The Arlington County Dept. of Parks and Recreation is providing 500 young native trees to Arlington residents at no cost this fall. The trees you plant are part of the …
Elections Matter: Vote on November 4, 2025
Where the candidates stand Addressing the climate and other environmental crises requires urgent and transformational changes at the global, national, state, and local levels. Decisions at the state and local …