Comments on: Why the City Is Promoting Conservation With 100,000 Paper Doorhangers

By: Something Wrong With This Picture? - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper

Something Wrong With This Picture? - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:05:45 +0000

[...] The District Department of the Environment doesn’t exactly have the best track record on environmentally friendly advertising. Back in June, DDOE printed up 100,000 doorhangers to publicisize the launch of the Mayor’s Conservation Corp. summer program. [...]

By: Southwester

Southwester — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:10:45 +0000

I ran into a crowd of the kids in the blue t-shirts this morning on my way to the Metro. When one of the doorhangers was offered to me, I politely said "no thanks", and the kid threw it on the sidewalk in front of me. As I walked up the street, I noticed that there were dozens of the hangers littering the sidewalk. Perhaps Mayor Fenty is starting an urban compost program?

By: Mike DeBonis

Mike DeBonis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:45:37 +0000

Richard, if you're not already presenting at Mary Cheh's "Policy Greenhouse" next month, sounds like you should: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=94943040915

By: Richard Layman

Richard Layman — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:08:23 +0000

The second phase is knocking on doors, and asking residents if they have ideas about how to improve their neighborhoods. This happened to me today. We had the door hanger yesterday (and Mike D. you beat me to writing about it) and the follow up visit today. Since I work at home, the poor kids were then subject to all my various ideas. But I didn't embarrass them by asking to see what they wrote down from what I said, ranging from urban agriculture policies to interdicting materials from the waste stream including composting, historic preservation trades training as a "green collar" initiative, etc.

By: Mike Licht

Mike Licht — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:00:50 +0000

The kids papering our doors are all wearing matching blue T-shirts with Mayor Fenty's name on them. That conserves the Mayor's campaign funds.