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Oct. 8, 2012 Vol. 3 No. 34
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Check out our calendar for events coming up, such as:
Now through Oct. 13
- From the Bay, for the Bay: A celebration of Maryland Seafood
Wednesday, Oct. 10
- Pesticides & the Chesapeake Conference
- Rescue a Rain Garden with the South River Federation
- Landscape Architects' Dedication of Ellen O. Moyer Nature Park - Driving America Green Electric Vehicle Awareness Event - Bethesda Green Gala
- Workshop for New Oyster Gardeners at CBF
- Kabler Memorial Event
Thursday - Sunday, Oct. 11-14
- US Powerboat Show
Thursday, Oct. 11
- Driving America Green event
- Bethesda Green Gala
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Support Annapolis Green
Be a Founding One Hundred Member or a "Bay Backer"
Want to join in and make your mark on sustainability in the Annapolis area?
Want to be one of the first to be a part of Annapolis Green? Then consider becoming one of our Founding One Hundred. Join the list below.
 | - Charlie Birney
- Infrared Tools Energy Services
- Gene Singleton & Maureen McEnerney
- Keith & Helen Drewett
- Doug Lashley / GreenVest
- Elvia Thompson
- Lynne & Mark Forsman
- Ralph Gleason
- Shelley & Eric Rubin
- Boatyard Bar & Grill
- John Nicklin
- Cohen Community Fund
- Towne Park
- Eastport Civic Association
- Galway Bay Irish Pub
- The Brick Companies
- Delegate Steve Schuh
- Severn Savings Bank
- Paul Murphy
- Hannah Studios, Inc.
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Please read more. Thank you!
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From the Bay, for the Bay
This is a week to celebrate Maryland Seafood. If you have a local seafood meal at a participating restaurant $1 will be donated to the Oyster Recovery Partnership!
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Last week the Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Chamber of Commerce awarded the Business Leader of the year award to Dick Franyo, owner of the Boatyard Bar & Grill and one of our Founding 100 sponsors.
Baldwin Homes, our hosts for Green Drinks Tuesday, was awarded the Green Business Award.
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Top of the Line
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Tuesday, Oct. 9
Maryland
Green Designer
Show Home
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Free. No RSVP. Cash Bar (donations for your beverages).
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Boats to Building ... Join us Tomorrow!
Green Drinks is invited to the brand new, first-time-ever Maryland Green Designer Show Home! It's Green Buildling at it's best, with more than 60 eco-features highlighted throughout the home. Our host is Baldwin Homes, builder of the Show Home, who was last week's Chamber of Commerce Green Business Award Winner. The home was designed and built Green from the bottom up. We interviewed President Mike Baldwin on our last radio show. Click to listen and you'll want to come to Green Drinks and see it for yourself! The home is in the Preserve at Severn Run, in Gambrills, just off Route 3. It's just a short drive from Annapolis and well worth it. Directions are on our website.The Baldwins did it right -- they installed infrastructure -- a coastal plains outfall system designed by Keith Underwood -- that mimics Mother Nature to control stormwater runoff before any construction began. The development has had no detrimental effect on the Severn River at all because of this and has been lauded by the Severn Riverkeeper, Fred Kelly. It's an example of how development and the environment can co-exist. There's a video on our website that explains it. Just click here. Not only is the home super Green, it is also beautiful, designed by local architect Catherine Purple Cherry. One of the fun things we'll do at Green Drinks is a scavenger hunt. Find certain Green features and you'll win a prize! Honoring Baldwin Homes' program to give back to the community by using the home to raise funds for charity, the proceeds from your donations for beverages will go directly to Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic and Hospice of the Chesapeake, rather than to Annapolis Green. We hope you'll be generous.
Elvia & Lynne
PS - Visit our Facebook page (link at the left, at the top) and share your Green opinions, articles, whatever. Let's make it a community forum.
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 Our campaign is appreciated at the Sailboat Show
and will be part of the Powerboat show too.
 Our project to Green the boat shows is being lauded by vendors at the sailboat show. We are still hearing, "Thanks for doing this," from just about everybody!
We and WasteStrategies deployed over 25 eco-stations throughout the show -- our entire inventory -- and they are colorful reminders to Sailboat Show attendees and vendors to "Do Good for the Bay" and recycle. We don't have enough inventory to cover the entire boat show so there are some generic trash bins that are being filled with both trash and recyclables, but our efforts are helping and dem onstrating that we locals care about our environment! We also are reaching out and doing our best to message the recycling effort with with signs on the bins themselves, banners, signs on the eCruisers, and a rack card to engage everyone to help in spread the word.
We owe a big thank you to the four companies sponsoring this effort and making this public awareness campaign possible: 
At the show look for us (we'll be roaming) so we can give you a rack card with info about the program. The card also includes a generous coupon from WEST for 20 percent off your entire meal check through December 28!
Remember you can hop on an eCruiser to get you around town and to the Loews -- and to see our signs. The rack cards are at the booths of the BoatU.S. Foundation (on the BoatU.S. Bridge) and at Dream Yacht Charter in the Vacation Basin.
Cards also are available at the Lehr Propane Powered Outboard Engines tent (Dock D, across the water from the Schooner Woodwind), represented by our own Lynne's husband, Mark Forsman. Stop by and see this environmentally friendly motor -- particularly if you are shopping for a motor for your dinghy. It was named the National Marine Manufacturers Association and West Marine "Green Product of the year."
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 We rolled our last Green Drinks into an almost-two-week-long series of events focusing on clean transportation -- specifically Electric Vehicles. We had a very successful showcase of electric cars on City Dock last Sunday, September 23, National Plug-In Day.
 The emphasis on Electric Vehicles isn't over! On Thursday, October 11, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., there will be a special event on the steps of the Statehouse to rally support for EVs and the infrastructure to support them. Driving America Green will make a stop in Annapolis and there will be speakers (including Mayor Josh Cohen, Delegate A. Shane Robinson, and our own Elvia Thompson), test rides of EVs, and more. Details, photos & video.
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Join us on the Radio
Living Green in Annapolis airs every Wednesday evening, from 6 to 7 on WNAV. Tune in when you can or catch the show on your own time at this link.
Every week we discuss a different environmental topic with guests who are experts in their fields.
Our next Living Green in Annapolis radio show, on October 10, is all about Green Boating.
Among our guests will be Captain Chris Tietje of the Schooner Liberte. He'll have some practical tips on how to care for your boat while not harming the critters in the water.
WNAV is heard at 1430AM, live streaming audio on wnav.com and in the City at 99.9FM.
For the schedule of programs and guests, see our calendar.
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 Our Email Sponsors
K&B True Value
can show you many ways to Go Green
 K&B True Value has literally thousands of environmentally friendly products, like no-VOC Mythic paint and a refillable laundry detergent station (bring your empty bottle in and we will fill it with more detergent). In addition, K&B True Value has a great deal of useful green information on its website about how you can have a healthier home and save money.
Our School Giving Program is back! 10% of your purchase goes to area schools for needed supplies. To help your school, just tell our cashiers which school you want to support and that school will get credit for your purchase.
After the program ends on October 31, we will give each school a gift card for 10% of those purchases. With free supplies from us, they'll have more money for books or other needs!
Click here for more details on the School Giving Program as well as the Paint Foundation Grants.
Save the Date for K&B True Value's 5th Annual Ladies' Night!
Sunday, November 11
details to come
Visit K&B True Value online, on Facebook, and in person at 912 Forest Drive, Annapolis.
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waterfront maintenance for your boat or pier
 At Pier Pressure, we want to maintain your pier, bulkhead, steps, decks and vessels in the most environmentally responsible manner possible. As water enthusiasts and environmentalists, we understand that maintaining the biology and diversity of the bay requires a delicate balance. We believe that to preserve the waterfront, people need to experience it. We are advocates for a waterfront lifestyle, and we promote responsible boating and recreation activities. Visit our website for information about our services.
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