Fairfax County residents following Gerry’s “Cool Counties” Model (Fairfax Connection)
A year after Fairfax County declared its goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by the year 2050, Rekha Nadkarni has made her neighborhood, McLean Hunt Estates, the first community in the county to be an official part of that effort.
Nadkarni was one of a group of residents who worked with the county and the Sierra Club to create the Cool Neighborhoods program to compliment the Cool Counties initiative that was signed last July. The idea, she said, was to generate awareness and open the door for individual citizens to join the county’s effort to fight global warming.
Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerry Connolly, who has been a proponent of the Cool Counties program, said the board would be trying to get other communities involved in Cool Neighborhoods, through its work with homeowners associations and civic associations. “We have an enthusiastic citizenry that wants to be engaged in this kind of program,” he said.
