Maud says "Go Brown! It's the Wave of the Future!"

Thanks for being so ass backwards, lady.

HistoricVienna.com has a green tip for the Town (and a cost effective one): GET SOME BIKES. We are sick of seeing police and TOV cars driving/idling all over town.

Vienna's Efforts at Going 'Green' Met With Some Doubts by BRIAN TROMPETER, Staff Writer Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Eight Vienna employees since April have researched ways the town government could save energy, cut costs and protect the environment.

When the “Green Team” presented its findings to the Vienna Town Council on Aug. 18, however, the reception was mixed.

The council, citing a fast-approaching Sept. 30 deadline, voted unanimously not to expedite initiatives so the town could qualify for the Virginia Municipal League's “Green Government Challenge.”

Council member Maud Robinson thanked group members for their efforts, but said the “go green” movement spanks of trendiness.

“Everything here adds up to money,” she said of the report. “Just to get in a contest for the sake of being in a contest, when most of the issues are covered by civic and common sense, makes absolutely no sense to me.”

According to the Green Team's report, the town currently qualifies for 30 points out of the challenge's possible 200. With town-code changes and the adoption of new policies, that figure could be raised as high as 80 points - which is still 20 points too low to qualify as a certified “Green Government.”

Robinson balked at several proposals that would have required hiring consultants or purchasing equipment.

“This is a bureaucrat's dream, if it's pursued to its ultimate end,” she said.

But Mayor M. Jane Seeman and Council member Michael Polychrones, who will become the Virginia Municipal League's president this fall, said the green movement is growing in strength and ubiquity.

“This is not going to go away,” Seeman said. “If anything, [the report] is helping us focus on what needs to be done. This is something we need to keep working toward.”