January 25, 2015 Vol. 6 No. 2
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Let your voice be heard on our Facebook page!
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Support Annapolis Green
Be a Founding One Hundred Member or a Friend of Annapolis Green 
Want to join in and make your mark on sustainability in the Annapolis area? 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
- Chesapeake Bay Roasting Company
- Clean Currents
- John H. Stevens
- EP Henry
- MOM's Organic Market
- La Prima Catering
- Jeannie Zajac
- Vic Pascoe
- Robert Clark
- Mid-Atlantic GEM, LLC
*multiple donations
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Check out our online calendar! Here are some highlights:
Tuesday, Jan. 27 - Workshop: Monitoring for Climate Change in Maryland's Non-Tidal Streams
Thursday - Saturday, Jan. 29 - 31 - New Partners for Smart Growth Conference
Practical Tools and Innovative Strategies for Creating Great Communities
Thursday, Jan 29, 2015 - Café Scientifique - The Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint: A Pollution Diet with Accountability
Wednesday, Feb. 4 - Green Grant Writing 101 Workshop for Faith-based Groups
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 2015 Legislative Session & the Environment
Among the topics the environmental community is expecting action on in this legislative session are:
Phosphorous Management Tool
in fact, Governor Hogan
blocked this on his first day
in office
Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard
Fracking
Defense of the Stormwater
Legislation
Environmental Justice
Pesticides
If you don't know what these issues are all about, follow our website and Facebook page to learn more, including how you can get involved, in the next few weeks and attend the 21st Annual Environmental Legislative Summit on Tuesday, Feb. 3, from 4 - 6 p.m., Miller Senate Building, 11 Bladen Street, Annapolis.
Hear from top legislative leaders and advocates about the environmental priorities for the 2015 General Assembly Session. Information & to RSVP
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Chesapeake Bay Trust
Seeks Host Organizations for Conservation Corps
This initiative pairs young adults with organizations that provide hands-on environmental, leadership, and technical training opportunities for a one-year term of service. All applications must be received by Feb. 27. Learn more.
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We had such a great, albeit FROZEN, Green Drinks at Galway Irish Pub on January 7 that we're going back in February, but this time with very different twist! It won't be Green Drinks exactly... read more below... but first a bit about our last event.  
Our hosts, Galway Bay Irish Pub provided the perfect cozy venue for a rainy, cold, yucky night. There was a lovely buffet of appetizers, more being passed by friendly servers, and of course, lots of Irish beer and other adult beverages! We were pleasantly surprised that so many Green Drinkers turned out on such a raw night. It was loads of fun.
 Our event was held on that date to provide the perfect prelude to the Maryland League of Conservation Voters' legislative preview in its offices just across the street. We strongly encourage you to be aware of what legislation our elected officials consider or may consider and then let them know what you think so they will act in a manner that represents your beliefs! See the sidebar.A few headlines from Green Drinks.
Russell Rankin of Mid-Atlantic GEM (formerly of eCruisers), became a Founding One Hundred sponsor by presenting us with a $1000 check! He thanked us for introducing him to the business community in Annapolis when he first arrived in our town and kidded that he figured he's eaten more than $1000 worth of food at Green Drinks in the past few years.
Severn Riverkeeper Fred Kelly, who has put himself on the installment plan, contributed another $100 toward his Founding One Hundred sponsorship. (You're almost there, Fred!)
The Capital's E.B. Ferguson III joined us and wrote a story about the LCV's legislative preview and mentioned Green Drinks. Reporters are more than welcome at Green Drinks!
 We want to send out a big thank you to Doug Lashley of GreenVest for being our event sponsor. GreenVest is an innovative and effective solution provider t hat uses private capital to acquire, restore and preserve land containing impaired ecological systems. GreenVest generates environmental value by creating ecological assets, tradable commodities in the form of credits, generated from the preservation, enhancement, restoration or creation of natural ecological systems. Thank you for sponsoring our event!
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Our Next Event: Non-Trivial Green Trivia Night!
A FUNdraiser for Annapolis Green
Wednesday, February 11
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Galway Bay Irish Pub, 63 Maryland Avenue
Eat, Drink, Laugh
Show off what you know about the environment
Win Prizes!
Here's how it will work. Get a team together: 2 to 6 members. Cost will be $10 per team.
 Galway Bay will offer a special fund raising menu (click here) - three courses for $25. That menu will be available that evening from 5 to 10 p.m. with $10 from each meal participant generously donated by Galway Bay to Annapolis Green, along with the teams' entry fees of $10. We'll have three courses of trivia questions with three prizes for the winning team in each and then a final round among the three winning teams to determine the overall winner for a really big prize!
Very important: You MUST call in your dinner reservation in advance. Call 410-263-8333.
Galway Bay, a Maryland Green Travel Partner, is one of the Greenest restaurants in the area in its operations and the sourcing of its food. And we guarantee that whatever you order will be delicious too!
Galway Bay, a Maryland Green Travel Partner, is one of the Greenest restaurants in the area in its operations and the sourcing of its food.
As they say, "Live Green Eat Irish!" Read more.
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 Next Living Green
"Trash Free Maryland's Legislative Priorities for the 2015 General Assembly"
Guest: Julie Lawson
Director and Co-founder, Trash Free Maryland Alliance
Tune in Wednesday, Jan. 28, 6 p.m. on WNAV, 1430AM, 99.9FM, or streaming on wnav.com
Living Green in Annapolis, continues every Wednesday evening and soon all of our programs (118 so far!) will be podcast for your convenience. They are now archived on our website.
details
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What Has Annapolis Green Been Up To?
 We're working on becoming a Keep America Beautiful Affiliate by assessing the litter level in the community, by studying where fit into the sustainability community in this area, and determining what our final organization structure will look like. We will have more information about this on our website soon.
We're joining this venerable organization because of the great opportunities it offers us, for the good of the community, in the form of program grants; state, regional and national collaborations; and more.
Want to help us do this? We need volunteers for a litter survey and an assessment of other sustainability groups in our community and how Annapolis Green fits in. If you'd like to be involved, send us an email.
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 Our Email Sponsor
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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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