Annapolis Green Newsletter
           July 18, 2011                                                                                Vol. 2 No. 23

In This Issue
Future Green Drinks
Calendar Highlights
Watershed Stewards Academy Wants You!
Check Out our Email Sponsors!
Support Us by Shopping at Mills
Future Green Drinks  

Save those dates! 

 

Tuesday, August 23

The Metropolitan

Theme: Eating Local 

 

Wednesday, September 14 

Quiet Waters Park

Theme: TBA   

 

Thursday, October 20 

Fleet Reserve Club
Theme: TBA 

 

 

Calendar Highlights

Thursday, July 21

- Environmental Lecture: Chesapeake Bay Series II

 

Saturday, July 23

- Master Gardner Composting Demo

 

Green Classes!

This week Anne Arundel Community College will begin a series of Green classes -- everything from Weatherization Installer Training to Wind Energy Apprentice. Looking to reinvent your career? Check it out on our calendar.

See our full calendar events, including Farmers' Markets.

 

Top of the Line


Thanks to our Green Drinks hosts last week!


The temperature was sizzlin', the drinks were chillin'

and the appetizers a fillin', thanks to ...

  

AND

 

along with   

Westfield Annapolis Mall

   

It's summertime, so we had our "backyard cookout" spread out between Punk's Backyard Grill and McCormick & Schmick's!
And did we mention it was hot! All "sunny & shiney," we enjoyed sushi from M&S and a variety of delights from Punk's.

We were glad to introduce so many new people to Punk's. Thank you Sheila, Dave and Andrew for your hard work and for the gift certificates we raffled off. We are sure you will have many Green Drinkers as new customers!  Keep an eye out for their special events (craft beer tastings) and don't forget they take all this freshness on the road - catering for special events! Be sure to check out their website.

McCormick & Schmick's are old friends of  Green Drinks having hosted one of our happy hours years ago ... back when we still went around the room introducing ourselves! We extend a huge welcome to new GM Lazette Wells as she hopes to continue to participate more and more in the Annapolis community. (Visit them at the Maryland Seafood Festival this September!)
Read about McCormick & Schmick's green initiatives on our website.  
 

Our special guests were members of the Chesapeake Regional Tech Council and our theme was renewable energy. 

 
Westfield Mall managers were kind enough to let us have exhibits and our registration table on the sidewalk between the two restaurants. Solar company Seven Seas Energy LLC brought a solar panel and discussed ways this renewable energy can be part of your life -- whether by purchase or lease. Thank you to Teris Pantazes. Alan Cohen of ATR was there to discuss his company's solar/wind hybrid initiatives and Lynn Gardner of Clean Currents was there to discuss savings using renewable energy.

Of  course, we did our bit by providing recycling bins for you at both locations. Thank you to George Lopez of The Solar and Wind Expo for being our unofficial "hauler" that night. Unfortunately, the retailers at the Mall are not yet able to recycle, but Mall managers are working on that.

Our friend, Russell Rankin, of eCruisers LLC ventured out of downtown to hint that his electric vehicles are aiming to be providing their hip, clean and green shuttle service at the Mall soon too! We were very grateful to Chuck Henney from Rain Barrels of Annapolis for providing us with a big umbrella in that heat!

We must say that we were thrilled that Westfield put our event, complete with our logo, on their big lighted marquis for over a week leading up to our event! That made us feel "big time" as did the fact that we had representatives from Green Drinks Baltimore and Green Drinks Bethesda with us.

Save the date! Our next Green Drinks will be held on Tuesday, August 23, at the "new" Metropolitan Kitchen & Lounge on West Street in Annapolis. More info to come. 

Finally, thank you to our wonderful volunteers, Stephanie Duncan Droxell, Mollie Williams, Cathy Desmond, and Karin Hannah Stern. We can't do this without them! 

  

Lynne & Elvia

 Support Us Through

Mills Fine Wine & Spirits'

Community Rewards Program

Give us your Mills cash register receipts!

 

When you shop at Mills, at the foot of  Main Street in downtown Annapolis, save your cash register receipts and give them to us. Once a quarter we'll turn them in to receive a 5% rebate as a donation from Mills.  

 

This generous offer costs you nothing and will allow us to keep spreading the word about environmental issues in Annapolis. And, four to six times a year Mills will provide unique wine, spirit and beer offers specifically created for as special promotions just for Green Drinkers! It's a Win-Win! Please shop at Mills and save your receipts for us.

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Kenergy Solar

 

At Kenergy Solar we believe that an educated customer is more likely to choose solar. We welcome the opportunity to help you find the answers to your questions about the environmental and financial benefits of solar energy for your home or business. Just give us a call at 410 533-4499 or email us at  
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K&B True Value 

 
K&B True Value, at 912 Forest Drive and www.kbtruevalue.com, has been family owned and operated since 1974. Owner Jared Littmann adds the latest environmentally-friendly products.

Coshell Charcoal Briquets are made of waste coconut shells and replace standard fossil fuel briquets with a material that would otherwise we discarded. More about Coshell.  


Mythic Paint Zero Toxins! - Stronger, safer, smarter paint. Now that's a breath of fresh air. MythicŪ paint is a non-toxic, ultra low-odor paint that provides the durability and coverage you expect from a premium paint without the off-gassing VOCs and harmful toxins that emit years after drying.


Sun & Earth Laundry Detergent Refill Station! Refill an empty 50 oz detergent bottle (yours or ours) for only $4.99! Reusing is better than wasting or even recycling!


K&B True Value has improved and reduced its environmental impact by improving energy efficiency expanding recycling activities, and accepting for recycling customers' CFLs, ink cartridges, and rechargeable and dry cell batteries.

The store was named an Annapolis Certified Environmental Steward by earning points from a checklist of categories including a recycling, native landscaping, installing energy efficient systems, and more, consistently showing initiative to decrease its negative impacts on the Chesapeake Bay and increase awareness of the importance of environmental stewardship.


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