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Sept. 30, 2011 Vol. 2 No. 32 |
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Future Green Drinks
Save those dates!
Thursday, October 20
Fleet Reserve Club
Theme: Recycling
November - in work
Thursday, December 8
Historic Inns of Annapolis
Theme: Green Your Holidays |
Calendar Highlights
Sept. 23-Oct. 2 - Solar Decathlon Oct. 2-9
- From the Bay, For The Bay: A Celebration of Maryland Seafood Oct. 2 - Native Plant Sale Oct. 5 - Master Gardener Composting Demonstration Oct. 6 - Greater Severna Park Watershed Action Group Monthly Meeting See our full calendar events, including Farmers' Markets.
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US Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon
Sept. 23 - Oct. 2
Don't miss this terrific event, just an hour away from us at West Potomac Park in Washington.
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is a competition that challenges college students from across the globe to design, build, and
operate solar-powered houses that are affordable, highly energy-efficient, attractive, and easy to live in. During the competition, 19 homes from US and international college teams, will undergo extensive
testing and expert judging in ten different contest categories. The winner of the competition is the team that best blends affordability, consumer appeal, and design excellence with optimal energy production and maximum efficiency. Don't miss it and be sure to see the University of Maryland's Chesapeake house, "Watershed." It's definiately worth the trip to DC and it's free.
 Information about the Univ. of Maryland's entry, "Watershed"
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Clean Currents is Annapolis Green's 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 their 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 toward financing a "greening project" of their choice. Read more. And, if you sign up and mention Annapolis Green, $25 goes to us!
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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.
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Top of the Line
Stay tuned for our more info about our next Green Drinks event at the Fleet Reserve Club on Thursday, October 20. Save the Date!
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Festival Greening with the Annapolis Green Team
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County's bomb robot recycling a can at the Maryland Seafood Festival
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As you know, we've partnered with WasteStrategies to add recycling to two events now, the Annapolis Race Week tent parties and the Maryland Seafood Festival. We know the amount of recycling at both events was huge, way more than trash, but the exact numbers are not in yet. WasteStrategies' staff is doing a formal audit of the waste from both events and will have info about exactly how much was taken out of the landfill stream due to making the recycling/trash stations attractive with signage that made it easy to understand what ought to go in which. The audit will help the managers of both events, the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing Association and the Maryland Seafood Festival, respectively, have a handle on what to expect next year.
We are going to be doing some greening in the periphery of the US Boat Shows too, working with one of its vendors, Yacht2BGreen. You'll see our now famous green and brown recycling/trash station in Yacht2BGreen's exhibit space on H Dock while WasteStrategies conducts a formal waste audit for US Boat Shows. This will give the show management a very accurate picture of what waste is being discarded inside the shows. That will allow them to make strategic decisions about recycling next year.
Yacht2BGreen will host an open house in its space on Friday, Oct. 7. If you're at the Boat Show that day, stay for the fun.
Another Boat Show exhibitor, our friends and supporters at Weems and Plath, are helping with the recycling effort as well. Look for the green and brown recycling/trash stations in their tent and at their tent sale on Chester Avenue in Eastport.
Our recycling effort will expand to the Power Boat Show's VIP party, hosted by the Annapolis Economic Development Corporation at Historic Annapolis' William Paca House and Gardens on Thursday, October 13.
And finally, we've been talking to the management at Pussers to see if we can help them with recycling all those Pain Killer cups just outside the Boat Show gate at both boat shows and with Eastport Yacht Club with regard to its Boat Show Bash to be held on Saturday, Oct. 8. Stay tuned for more news about these initiatives.
We could use good hearted, green volunteers to be part of the Annapolis Green Team at these events. Want to help us out? We'll guarantee that it will be fun. If you are interested, please contact Lynne at fairwinds@comcast.net.
Elvia & Lynne
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From the Bay, For The Bay: A Celebration of Maryland Seafood
Oct. 2-9
 For a week in October, participating restaurants from Philadelphia to Northern Virginia will be featuring fresh, locally caught Maryland seafood. This will be an excellent way to support our local watermen, while enjoying the best seafood the region has to offer. Our local restaurants include: Boatyard Bar & Grill, Buddy's Ribs, Federal House, Harry Browne's, Hell Point Seafood, Hemingway's, Kava, McCormick & Schmick, The Rockfish, Sam's on the Waterfront, the Severn Inn, Wild Orchid, and Vin 909.
Information | Read the story in The Capital
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Member of AYC?
Stop in and see Pangaea
and meet our youngest Green Drinker
(just soft drinks for now)
Monday, Oct. 10
 Explorer Mike Horn is taking carefully selected youth ages 15-20 as "Young Explorers" to the world's most remote locations sharing his passion for exploration and discovery and teaching them about the world's ecosystems, enhancing respect for their environment and humanity's impact on it, providing them with a platform for action that preserves the planet for future generations.
They have already visited Antarctica, the South Pole, New Zealand, Malaysia, and India. They have also completed land based expeditions in the Himalayas, China, Kamchatka Russia, the North Pole and recently in Nunavut, Canada. Now they are coming to Annapolis.
The exploration sailboat, Pangaea, is a 35-meter vessel purposefully built using sustainable materials to execute a specific objective with a positive environmental message. During Pangaea's mission, she will be used for research, education and environmental projects all around the world. It is the perfect platform to explore, learn and act. Pangaea, which stands for Pan Global Adventure for Environmental Action is so named to represent the world "as it once was."
Mike Horn and Pangaea will be in the Annapolis and Baltimore harbors with ten Young Explorers from three different continents. This includes Annapolis area residents Lauren Morrell, the Young Explorer and Severn Riverkeeper Student Representative who created this stopover project named Explore to Restore (Be sure to check out the website). While in Annapolis, the group will join local high school students and area volunteers to work on restoration projects benefiting the Severn River and Chesapeake Bay watershed.
On Monday afternoon, Pangaea will arrive at the AYC Dock on the clubhouse side at approximately 4:30 p.m. Mike Horn, his crew and several Young Explorer alumni will offer tours of the vessel and discuss the Young Explorers program. This is an AYC members-only event.
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Extreme Home Makeover Goes Green
with a help from several of our Green Drinkers!
You can help!
 Several of our local Green Drinkers are involved in an Extreme Home Makeover happening in Salisbury on the Eastern Shore. The Fusion Companies' Wes Sims, one of our most loyal Green Drinkers and a green builder, is heading up the project for a needy family. The renovation begins today, Sept. 30, and the family will see the results on Oct. 4. The episode will air in about six to eight weeks. | Press Release
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Wes and Josh Sims
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Other Annapolis-area businesses very familiar to us are donating their expertise to the project too including: Halpern Architects, Rentals to Remember, the Chesapeake Shores chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors, Chesapeake Roasting, the Green Turtle Sports Bar & Grille, Loews Annapolis Hotels, Landmarks Great Deals, Moveable Mixtures, Vivo!, BGC Contracting Inc., and many more. An 8KW Solar panel system is being donated and installed by Seven Seas Energy that will will provide enough power to run the entire house year round. | Press Release.
You can help too -- by volunteering or by donating. Fusion and Extreme Makeover Home Edition have set up a website that makes signing up and giving easy. Just click here. You can also follow their blog and see what talents/items might still be needed for the house.
The Capital ran a terrific article on the project. Click here to read it.
Way to go, Fusion!
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