Annapolis Green Newsletter
           Sept. 12, 2011                                                                                Vol. 2 No. 30
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In This Issue
Future Green Drinks
Calendar Highlights
Check Out our Email Sponsors!
Moving Planet for Offshore Wind
Support Us by Shopping at Mills
Greening Festivals
Harvest Beer Festival
AEDC Open House
Future Green Drinks  

Save those dates! 


Wednesday, September 14 

Quiet Waters Park

Theme: Environmental Education Makes Good Green Neighbors 

 

Thursday, October 20 

Fleet Reserve Club
Theme: Recycling

 

November - in work

 

Thursday, December 8 
Historic Inns of Annapolis

Theme: Green Your Holidays 

Calendar Highlights

Wednesday, Sept. 14
- Green Drinks Annapolis 

Thursday, Sept. 12
- Taste of the Chesapeake Bay 

Saturday, Sept. 17
- SERC Canoe Excursion
- Composting Demo
- Native Orchid Walk & Talk 

- Boatyard Beach Bash Benefiting Annapolis Maritime Museum
- Harvest Beer Festival Benefiting Scenic Rivers Land Trust 

Wednesday, Sept. 18
- Magothy River Association Meeting 

Thursday, Sept. 22

- Annapolis Economic Development Corporation Open House
- Celebrate the Severn Fundraiser for Severn Riverkeeper  

Saturday, Sept. 24
- Chesapeake Ecology Center Native Plant Sale & Open House 

Sept. 23-Oct. 2

- Solar Decathlon 

 

See our full calendar events, including Farmers' Markets.

Moving Planet:
Charging Forward
for Maryland Offshore Wind Power
 

Rolling Rally
for Climate Solutions

Saturday, Sept. 24

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. 

  

Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Clean Currents and Bike Maryland will promote efforts to develop the state's offshore wind energy resources with the very first "rolling rally" to hit the streets of Annapolis.  

 

The purpose is to illustrate to Annapolis legislators that there is support for offshore wind energy in Maryland. Speakers will include Senate Majority Leader Rob Garagiola, Jim Strong of the United Steelworkers of Maryland and Dave Goodrich, the former head of the NOAA climate observation unit who earlier this year biked across the country to spread awareness of climate change. 

 

This is part of a global day of climate action called "Moving Planet." Join the rolling rally of bikes, skateboards, strollers and more, taking the "people-powered movement" to State Circle, to a theatrical bill signing and the final assemblage of miniature wind turbines by workers on the water. To learn more and register and join on your bike or other people-powered vehicle click here.  It will be fun for a great cause! 

 Don't Forget to 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.

Top of the Line

 

Wednesday, Sept. 14

Quiet Waters Park Visitors Center

5:30-7:30 p.m.

"Environmental Education   

Makes Good Green Neighbors" 

 

  

Our event Wednesday will begin right after the official groundbreaking for the butterfly and reading garden being dedicated by the Friends of Quiet Waters Park and Garrett's Light 

at Quiet Waters Park. Please join us for that at 5 p.m. See the invitation.   

 

We trust that you've all been to Quiet Waters, 340 acres of verdant nature trails, an art gallery, cafe, dog park, ice skating rink, and more.If not, don't miss seeing this amazing park. Come and meet your neighbors and your park! 

  

Our theme is "Environmental Education Makes Good Green Neighbors." There will be a number of exhibitors including the County Recreation and Parks Department, the Annapolis Maritime Museum, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and more.     

   

Our event will be sponsored by Clean Currents, our wind energy supplier. Clean Currents has initiated the The Green Neighborhood Challenge, a program for communities to get involved in clean energy, to do fund raising, and to help build an environmental movement. Clean Currents can help your community with these efforts by providing resources, hosting educational events, and promoting your group or organization. The goal of our Green Neighborhood Challenge is to support the efforts of community groups that are actively "greening" their neighborhoods. Based upon each group's level of involvement, Clean Currents will donate money back to each group to go towards financing a "greening project" of their choice. Read more.   

  

Sustainable Appetizers will be provided by the concessionaire at the park, Pit Boys who will be selling beer and wine, provided by our friends at Katcef. We'll be serving Landshark, Becks Oktoberfest and Bud Light. As always, we'll also have soft drinks available. Cash bar. 

  

Please pass info about our event on to your neighbors and your neighborhood association! We'd love to welcome lots of new Green Drinkers to this event where we have lots of room to network, talk, walk, and get to know our neighbors.   

 

Watch for our very cool raffles! 

  

As always, we'd love to have some volunteer greeters help us out at the event. If you are interested, please email Lynne. Check out our website for more details.  

  

See you on Wednesday. 

  

Elvia & Lynne 

Another Success and More to Come!

WasteStrategies & Annapolis Green 

 Helped Maryland Seafood Festival Go Green
& Bay Friendly with Recycling 

 

The grounds at the Seafood festival were clean and neat and lots of recycling was picked up as a result of WasteStrategies' colorful trash/recycling bins and signs. As was the case with Annapolis Race Week's parties, the success of the recycling effort proves that people will do the right thing if they are given a clear choice! Stay tuned for more info about exactly how much trash was diverted from the landfill at both events.

 

Even the state's bomb disposal robot knew enough
to recycle at the Seafood Festival,
dropping a can into the correct bin!

 First Annual Harvest Beer Festival
Fundraiser for Scenic Rivers Land Trust 

 

Saturday, Sept. 17

2 - 6 p.m., Homestead Gardens
743 West Central Avenue, Davidsonville


Your $35 ticket gets you the chance to sample 50  outstanding beers (including Fat Tire, Goose Island, Starr Hill and more), a souvenir etched beer glass and entry to the Brewers Tent where you can listen, learn and enjoy.

Rob Levit plays all day and Homestead Gardens will have its grills blazin' and an oyster bar. The event benefits Scenic Rivers Land Trust a non-profit organization that has been preserving land in Anne Arundel County for over 23 years.
Information and to purchase tickets: harvestbeermd.com. Type in promo code SRLT and receive $5 off each $35 ticket purchased.

 Annapolis Economic Development Corp.  

Open House

Thursday, September 22

6 - 8:30 p.m.

 

The AEDC has moved and invites all local business owners and citizens to an open house at its new location at the Severn Bank Building, 200 West Street, Suite 102.  

 

They will show off their new office space, talk about the work the AEDC is doing, and show you the 5th floor green roof terrace. The reception will be held in the building's  lobby. The evening is co-hosted by the AEDC, Hyatt Commercial and Annapolis Green!  

 

Light Hor's d'oeuvres and refreshments will be served courtesy of AEDC, Hyatt Commercial, and graciously catered by the Wild Orchid Cafe. Your first two drinks are free!

 

Although this event is free and open to the public, we ask that you RSVP to the AEDC Office Manager, Sanja Giandomenico at [email protected] or call 410 280-2712.

sponsorsOur Email Sponsors       

 

BliSMoves 

Playful Movements to Replenish Your Soul

 

BlisMoves(Body Language is Somatic) is a fun, fitness, dance-movement class developed by Lauren Kelly-Washington that  infuses yoga, the martial arts, African and Latin dance with a period of meditation.  

Lauren guides classes through, mind centering, a rhythmic warm-up, energetically balanced movements and floor exploration, all while taking an eclectic musical journey around the globe! Lauren has a reputation as an open and loving teacher who is gifted at the art of inviting her students to explore their joy and full potential.  

 

BliS Moves™ is fun, addictive and gratifying for all levels of movers! Classes are held weekly at Ridgely Retreat and the Pip Moyer Recreation Center at Truxtun Park. Click to learn more and move!  

 

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, such as:
  • 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. Mythic� paint is a n on-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!

Upcoming Special Event: Ladies' Night - Sunday, Nov. 6

  

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 catego ries 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.

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 [email protected]. 

  

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