Engaging Our Community
in Caring for Our Environment

Educate. Advocate. Act.
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 to collectively promote and create an eco-friendly community. With programs like EcoAmbassadors, the Tree Planting Program, Signature events that include 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.

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Support Legislation to Ban Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers

CALL TO ACTION: let legislators know that you support bills — HB881 and SB687 which would give localities in dense urban and suburban areas the ability to ban or regulate the use of gas-powered leaf blowers.

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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.

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2026 Annual Earth Day Cleanup scheduled for April 11, 2026

Join us in taking EcoAction at an Arlington park to remove litter and trash from the stream and park in honor of Earth Day on Saturday April 11, 2026 from 10AM-12PM. This event is family friendly; all children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Groups are welcome to register and attend. Registration required.

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2026 48th Annual Meeting

We are pleased to invite you to the 48th Annual Meeting of EcoAction Arlington, Changing Behaviors to Address the Climate Crisis, on Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. The meeting will take place at Washington-Liberty High School, 1301 N. Stafford Street, Arlington, and participation is free and open to all. Registration required.

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