Kudos for energy efficiency
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I’d like to commend the newly elected Loudoun County Board of Supervisors for creating an Ad Hoc Committee on Energy Efficiency during its first business meeting. Both Chairman York, who proposed the committee, and the entire board, which wholeheartedly supported the idea, deserve praise for this action. A commitment to energy efficiency can substantially reduce county costs. My sense is that this initiative will help to turn loose the creative, pent-up ideas of many county employees.
However, energy efficiency must only be a first step. The use of carbon-based energy is having a profound impact on problems such as climate change, national security and childhood asthma. Loudoun County must become a leader, rather than a follower, in moving us toward a renewable and clean energy future. For example, neighboring Fairfax, Arlington and Montgomery counties are purchasing wind power to supply a portion of their municipal energy needs. Loudoun is not. These same counties have signed the U.S. Cool Counties Climate Stabilization Declaration, a commitment to work toward reducing countywide greenhouse gas emissions to 20 percent of current levels by 2050. Loudoun has not.
True leaders step up to make difficult decisions during difficult times. Now is our time. Future generations – our children and grandchildren – are depending on it.
Eric White
Sterling
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