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March 15, 2012 Vol. 4 No. 8
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Saturday & Sunday, March16-17
- City of Annapolis Rain Barrel, Compost Bin & Waste Toter Sale
Saturday, March 16
- Davidsonville Green Expo
- Scenic Rivers Land Trust Hike
Tuesday, March 19
- Mothers & Others Stroller Parade to Support Pesticides Reporting Act
- Severn River Association Meeting
Wednesday, March 20
- Green Drinks Annapolis
- Lecture: Archeological Research into Storm Water Runoff
- Lecture: Storms, Heat, and Tides, Oh My! Local Impacts and Solutions to Changing Climate
- Magothy River Association Meeting
Thursday-Sunday, March 21-24
- Annapolis Film Festival
Friday-Sunday, March 22-24
- Maryland Day
Saturday, March 23
- Annapolis Film Festival's Environmental Showcase
- Screening of "Gasland"
- South River Federation's South River on the Half Shell Auction
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Annapolis Green on the Radio
Next Program
Wednesday, March 20
6 - 7 p.m.
Living Green in in Annapolis on WNAV may be heard at 1430AM, streaming live on wnav.com and, in the City at 99.9FM. Past programs are available on our website. Click here.
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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.
- Joe Budge & Sharon Kennedy
- PNC Wealth Management
- K&B True Value
- Betty & Jim Davis
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Please read more. Thank you!
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Green Expo in Davidsonville
Saturday - Rain or Shine
Ruritan Club Community Center
3358 Davidsonville Road
Saturday, March 16
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
FREE
The Davidsonville Area Civic Association and the Ruritan Club, in partnership with local businesses and environmental organizations, will host this event to increase awareness about environmental issues and highlight eco-friendly products, services, and ideas.
Discover your local watershed group, learn about energy saving techniques, and hear about living more sustainably.
Children's activities, give-aways, Bay friendly lawn and landscape techniques, wildlife habitat shrubs and trees, rain barrels, renewable energy (solar, geothermal and wind energy), recycling and energy efficiency and non toxic home products and will be featured. Many items and food also for sale. Free Admission.
K-12 students are invited to participate in the Expo's poster contest. Prizes will be awarded.
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Top of the Line
We did it, thanks to you!
We came in among the top four in the voting and won a $10,000 grant from the BoatUS Foundation!
We didn't come in first in the voting, but it was the public engagement that put us on the decision makers' radar. Because so many of you Facebooked and Tweeted our campaign, we'll get the funds to accelerate recycling at the boat shows, create a toolkit for others who want to Green their own waterside events, and develop web-based, mobile-ready Green & Clean boating info for local & visiting recreational boaters.
Thank you so much for your support! We feel that this truly a community effort. We couldn't have done this without you. And now... we have to get to work! Yikes!
On the Horizon
Here we are on the "eve" of Green with St. Pat's day around the corner. Depending on your "shade" of Green, there's plenty to learn, do and enjoy in the next week or so. We'll highlight a few and offer a full list on our calendar. See below for news about:
- Green Drinks Wednesday at Homestead Gardens
- Our Greening of Maryland Day
- Project Clean Stream
Cheers,
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And on to March in the Garden!
Green Drinks Annapolis
Wednesday, March 20
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Homestead Gardens
743 West Central Avenue, Davidsonville
 What would March Green Drinks be without our annual pilgrimage to our very own Homestead Gardens in Davidsonville!
Great Location
It will be lovely to be among the flowers next week during Homestead's annual open house, appropriately, on the first day of Spring,
Our theme and Homestead's is "Cherish the Chesapeake." More than a local treasure, the Chesapeake is lifestyle. We will celebrate Homestead's 40th year, its commitment to being a leader in our local Green economy and explore and learn how we all can do the same in our gardening, landscaping and living by the Bay. Learn more about Homestead's efforts.
This Open house will be going on all week. We encourage you to check out the terrific schedule that includes our very own Rita Calvert teaching us more about Sustainable Agriculture and its Importance. Read more
Great Food
  Our catering partners are Honey's Harvest Market & Deli, a part of Herrington on the Bay Eco-Lifestyle Resort and Mills Fine Wine & Spirits. We're looking forward to Honey's sustainable appetizers and
Mills' selections of local wines and beers.
Great Partners
 Our sponsor this month is also a fabulous fit -- our friends from the Chesapeake Bay Trust. And the first thing we think about with CBT is the iconic Bay Plate. Do you have a bay plate? Do you know how this works and the projects that result from the funds raised by the plates?
We're putting on a Bay Plates Challenge. On Wednesday Night we're going to see just how many we plates we can get to fill up the Homestead parking lot. For all those that do drive in with one -- take a pic (or just tell us) -- and you'll be put into a drawing for a prize. And for those of you who want one ... we'll be able to help you with that too, right on the spot!
 Our Partnering Organization is is the Anne Arundel Watershed Stewards Academy -- the army of volunteers working in their own neighborhoods on projects that really do make a difference! Look for the yellow tee-shirts and get to know the stewards from your own neighborhood.
And finally, we'll have a number of exhibits from a terrific group of folks and organizations you'll want to meet as you get ready to tackle your springtime planting and gardening.
Green Drinks strives to bring the environmental message to new audiences, so bring along your friends, colleagues, family... everybody... to March's Green Drinks Annapolis at Homestead Gardens, on March 20.
As always, it's free with a cash bar in the form of a donation (soft drinks available), and no RSVP is required.
Want meet a lot of people? Volunteer to help out with Green Drinks. You'll have a of fun doing so. Just send us an email.
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Project Clean Stream
Get your hands dirty for clean water!
Join a group in your neighborhood, or start your own, and participate in Project Clean Stream, an annual watershed-wide day or cleaning up our shorelines sponsored by the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay. From Pennsylvania to Virginia, over 5000 volunteers will be working on our about April 6 to do just that. Businesses, neighborhood associations, clubs... all can participate. Let's show some love to our waterways! For more info, contact Dan Brellis at the Alliance, (443) 949 0575.
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Maryland Day Goes Green
The 6th Annual Maryland Day
is Growing a Little Greener!
This year, thanks to Annapolis Green and our sponsor, Chesapeake Eye Care and Laser Center, Maryland Day will Grow a Little Greener... signaled by the addition of a green petal on its Black-Eyed Susan logo.
More details are on our website about how we are Greening the event and several downtown Annapolis sites in particular. And, the eCruisers all electric shuttles will be helping promote the Greening effort too.
read more
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 Our Email Sponsors
K&B True Value
Sale will be held rain or shine
Saturday & Sunday, March 16 & 17
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Composters $47 * Rain Barrels $58
 K&B True Value is your hardware store and more. There are literally thousands of Green Options products in stock to help you live your life in a more Earth friendly manner. And, now, K&B delivers!
Visit K&B True Value online, on Facebook, and in person at 912 Forest Drive, Annapolis. Phone: (410) 268-3939.
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