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August 14, 2011 Vol. 2 No. 25
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Future Green Drinks
Save those dates!
Tuesday, August 23
The Metropolitan
Theme: Eating Local
Wednesday, September 14
Quiet Waters Park
Theme: Environmental Education Makes Good Green Neighbors
Thursday, October 20
Fleet Reserve Club
Theme: TBA
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Calendar Highlights
Tuesday, Aug. 16 - Severn River Assoc. Meeting - Public Meeting On Air Permit for Coal Facility Wednesday, Aug. 17 - Magothy River Assoc. Meeting
- SERC Lecture: Orchids & Earthworms
Thursday, Aug. 18 - Public Meeting on Proposed Landfill in Crofton - Benefit for Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center Saturday, Aug. 20 - Master Gardner Composting Demo
- Rain Barrel and Compost Bin Sale
Monday, Aug. 22 - Watershed Stewards Informational Session Wednesday, Aug. 23
- Green Drinks Annapolis Thursday-Saturday, Aug. 25-27
- Maryland Clean Energy Center's Summit & Consumer Trade Show Green Classes! Anne Arundel Community College is running a series of Green classes, everything from "Going Green at Home" to "Wind Energy Apprentice." Looking to reinvent your career? Check it out on our calendar.
See our full calendar events, including Farmers' Markets.
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Buy your tix to the Silopanna Music Festival by today, Aug. 14, and $1 will go to the Chesapeake Bay Trust to fund projects and programs that clean up the Chesapeake Bay. Read more.
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Top of the Line
Green Drinks | Green Plates!
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. And that's our theme this month: Eat Local Food from Local restaurants and farms.
As you may have heard, the City of Annapolis recently announced its "Green Plate Special Program" through which the city encourages local eateries to source food locally |
press release | As you know, Annapolis Green has been advocating Buy Local/Eat Local for years with our Green Foodie Challenge. We encourage local sourcing and sustainable operations within the hospitality community and hold our events at venues that support that philosophy. Read more.
 Looking ahead: We're already gearing up for September's Green Drinks! It will be at Quiet Waters Park, in the visitors' center, on Wednesday, September 14. Our theme is "Environmental Education Makes Good Green Neighbors."
 Our event will be sponsored by Clean Currents, our wind energy supplier. Learn how easy and affordable it can be to go green at home. You can be a Good Neighbor by making the switch to clean power. Bring your utility account number to the event to sign-up on the spot and $25 will be donated back to Annapolis Green!
We'll have details on our event for you soon. Save the date to join us at Quiet Waters, a jewel of a green sanctuary right in town.
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 Save the Date
44th Annual Maryland Seafood Festival
We're making it Green!
Saturday & Sunday, Sept. 10 & 11
Sandy Point State Park It's a tasty and entertaining tradition, with music, great food, exhibits, arts and crafts, and featuring The Capital's 21st Crab Soup Cook-off and the DNR's Maryland Fishing Challenge Featuring the Diamond Jim Award Ceremony. The Festival built around a safe, family friendly environment showcasing the great seafood that Maryland has to offer. Live music performances, local charities selling delicious treats, creative craft booths, not to mention everyone's seafood favorites will be featured.  Annapolis Green has teamed up with WasteStrategies on a number of upcoming projects, including greening the Seafood Festival. WasteStrategies provides turnkey environmental management solutions of multiple waste streams at multiple levels in a way that reduces costs, increases the amount of waste that is recycled, and focuses on an end result of zero waste -- just our kind of folks. So, Annapolis Green will have a presence at the festival in its  Green Tent, spreading information about living sustainaby AND helping the festival itself recycle and reduce waste. We need volunteers to help us staff the tent! Interested? Send Lynne an email. | Information about the Festival |
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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 Our September Green Drinks will take place just one day before Moving Planet, an international day to put our demands for climate action into motion our leaders that we're ready to get moving on climate solutions like never before. And with all the people-powered momentum behind our wind campaign in Maryland, you can bet we won't be sitting on the sidelines.-marching, biking, skating-calling for the world to go beyond fossil fuels. There's an event on Sept. 24, called "Charging Forward for Maryland Offshroe Wind Power." It will consist of a great rolling mass of Marylanders circling the Annapolis statehouse from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Fun for a great cause! Read more.
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