Currently, the District exports some 200,000 tons of residential trash a year out to a facility out in Lorton, Va., where it's processed to create electricity through steam-powered wind turbines (which is better than D.C.'s earlier strategy of sending garbage to a landfill near Richmond). Fairfax County sells that electricity to Dominion Virginia Power, bringing [...]
A few months ago, the National Park Service announced a partnership with Coca Cola to bring recycling cans to the National Mall. Not to be outdone, PepsiCo is working with the Downtown Business Improvement District and the D.C. Department of Public Works to start an even cooler recycling program, involving something called a "Dream Machine." [...]
MuralsDC is a publicly-funded program, which selects artists to paint elaborate murals on walls frequently tagged with illegal graffiti. The program, run by the Department of Public Works (DPW), is celebrating the completion of its latest round of murals with a bus tour, visiting each new art site, on Friday morning.
Artists, participants and others are [...]
Bloomingdale's Boxer Girl mural. Drama, drama, drama.
This is how it starts.
You see a pleasant, little announcement about a city-sponsored mural program. It asks whether you'd allow people to paint an exterior wall of your house. Pretty innocuous.
Then, the thing goes up, and your neighbors start complaining about how they can See it from [...]
