Newsletter Archive

Highlights from the Latest Issues of
The Potomac River Group Newsletter:

The Potomac River Group Quarterly Newsletter—October 2023

The Potomac River Group Quarterly Newsletter—July 2023

Fall 2021

Summer 2021

Spring 2021

Winter 2020

Summer 2020

Winter 2019

Fall 2019

Summer 2019

Spring 2019

Winter 2019

Fall 2018

Spring 2018

Winter 2017

Fall 2017

Summer 2017

Spring 2017

Winter 2016

Fall 2016

Spring 2016

Winter 2015

Fall 2015

Summer 2015

  • Cutting Carbon in Arlington
  • Steps Toward a Metro Station at Potomac Yard
  • Meatless Mondays - Join the Challenge!
  • 10% Electric Bike discount for Sierra Club Members!
  • Do the Light Switch!
  • Know your Poison Ivy!

Spring 2015

  • The Environment and Arlington's FY16 Budget
  • Springing for Solar in Falls Church!
  • Changes Coming for I-66
  • General Assembly 2015: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
  • How Many Siblings Does It Take To Change a Lightbulb?

Winter 2014/2015

  • Streetcar Scuttled--and Other Transportation Updates
  • Get Out the Vote! (ExCom election)
  • How Does the Magic Happen?

Fall 2014

  • The Future of Rail in Potomac Yard
  • Paying for Arlington's Streetcars
  • Local Energy Efficiency Program
  • Calling All Candidates!

Summer 2014

  • Battle Lines in Lorton
  • Meet Ishmael -- our newest organizer
  • When in France....
  • Support the EPA's Clean Power Plan!

Spring 2014

  • Tap In! - ending our love affair with single-use plastic water bottles
  • Why We (Still) Love the Streetcar
  • Other Things We Care About in 2014
  • The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - the 2014 General Assembly session
  • The 411 on Sierra Club Endorsements

Winter 2014

  • Your Vote Counts! - Elections for the MVG ExCom
  • The EPA and Power Plants
  • Have You Taken the Energy Journey?

Fall 2013

  • We're Getting There! - 2013's Transportation Developments
  • To Mine or Not to Mine?
  • Building a Green Home? Ask the Experts!
  • Infectious Diseases: Turning Up the Heat
  • Mount Vernon Group Executive Committee Election: Call for Candidates

Summer 2013

  • Stormy Weather - Local Governments Taking a Second Look at Stormwater
  • Kudos for a Clean Energy Crusader
  • At George Mason University, Sustainability's Central
  • Running on Faith -- And Solar

Spring 2013

  • Why We Still Support the Columbia Pike Streetcar
  • Reporting from Richmond...
  • Advair or Allegra, Anyone?
  • Wednesday Activists Are Off to a Busy Start in 2013
  • Leaping Into Home Improvement, Part Two
  • Easy Greening: The Energy Journey
  • Arlington National Cemetery's Old Growth Forest
  • Hey, Did We See You There?

Winter 2013

  • Your Vote Counts! - Excom elections
  • Easy Greening: Local or Organic?
  • Do You Know the Truth Squad?
  • Notes From the Chair: Leaping Into Home Improvement
  • Recommended Reading: Power for the People

Fall 2012

  • Metro D.C. Tour of Solar Homes & Buildings
  • The Five Megawatt (Solar) Question
  • Notes From the Chair: A Deep Dive into the Club's Alexandria Endorsements
  • Easy Greening: Local or Organic?
  • Children and Climate Change
  • It's Not Easy Being Green
  • Volunteers Needed in Arlington: Energy Efficiency Improvements for Low-Income Housing

Summer 2012

  • Alexandria City Council Endorsements
  • More Lanes and Tolls for I-66?
  • The Most Important Thing You Can Do This Summer...
  • Lorton's Green Energy Future
  • Pushing Ahead: Dominion's 15-Year Plan
  • Pushing Ahead, Part Two: Dominion and the Truth Squad
  • Streetcars on Columbia Pike: It's Time!
  • Easy Greening: Meatless Mondays
  • Your Sneakers' Second Life in a Landfill
  • Notes from the Chair: Get Out of Here! (Way Out of Here.)

Spring 2012

  • Clean Energy for the Commonwealth
  • Easy Greening: The Payoff of Speaking Truth to Power
  • Notes from the Chair: Global Warming, Local Activism
  • Help Get Solar Panels Back on the White House!

Winter 2011

  • Mount Vernon Group Executive Committee Election
  • Renewable Energy Rally in Richmond
  • Easy Greening: Great Gift Ideas 

Fall 2011

  • Clean Energy: Victory Close to Home!
  • Attack of the 18-Foot Inhaler 
  • Easy Greening: Recycling Throwdown!

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