Annapolis Green Newsletter
           July 21, 2011                                                                                Vol. 2 No. 24

In This Issue
Future Green Drinks
Calendar Highlights
Watershed Stewards Academy Wants You!
Check Out our Email Sponsors!
Local Eco News of Interest
Save the Date for our Next Green Drinks
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

 

Tuesday, July 26  

- Rescue a Rain Garden 

 

 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

 

Here's some local information of interest

   

From the Chair of the Annapolis Environmental Commission:

 

Proposed Developments - Reserve at Quiet Waters Park.  

The Annapolis Environmental Commission, the Annapolis Neck Peninsula Federation and the South River Federation, among others, have expressed deep concern about the property owner's proposal to create a new development of 158 housing units called the Reserve at Quiet Waters, which abuts Quiet Waters Park. A public hearing on the Reserve at Quiet Waters will be held before the Annapolis Planning Commission tonight, July 21, at 7:30 p.m. in City Council Chambers. For more information on this proposal, see the Planning Commission's hearing agenda and the developer's website.  


Having walked though the site and studied the site plan, the AEC's comments and recommendations focusing on these major concerns: 
1. Impact to Quiet Waters Park; 2. Hydrologic and water quality impact; 3. Loss of forest, tree canopy and degradation of wetlands; 4. Increased traffic and congestion; 5. Fear of gridlock in an emergency; 6. Threat to community quality of life. For complete AEC submission, go to annapolis.gov/environment

 

Natural Resources Defense Council ranks Maryland 5th for power plant pollutants - 
Read more

If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em.


This made us think of our friends at Bay Weekly and their column, "News of the Weird," but it came from the Baltimore Sun.

 

"Chef Chad Wells of Alewife restaurant tossed chunks of raw snakehead fish with cilantro and citrus to make something more ambitious than an $8 ceviche appetizer. It was an invasive-species eradication plan in a martini glass."

Can we do that with phragmites? Read more
 



Save the date! Our next Green Drinks! 

Tuesday, August 23, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Metropolitan Kitchen & Lounge
169 West Street, Annapolis

Metropolitan specializes in farm-to-table cooking, striving to source ingredients from local farms and purveyors and incorporating sustainable, Earth friendly, grassfed and healthy into their philosophy.  More info to come. 

 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  
info@kenergysolar.com.

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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