February 6, 2015 Vol. 6 No. 3
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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:
Monday, Feb. 9 - South River Federation Citizen Scientist Information Session
Wednesday, Feb. 11 - Green Drinks Extra: "Non-Trivial Green Trivia Night" - A FUNdraiser for Annapolis Green
Thursday, Feb. 12 - The Modern Chesapeake Waterman: Sustaining a Way of Life from Resources of the Bay - Lecture at Annapolis Maritime Museum
Tuesday, Feb. 17 - Conowingo - What Are The Options? - Severn River Association's Education Series
Tuesday, Feb. 17 - Climate Stewards of Greater Annapolis Present Howard County Climate Change Group (HoCo Climate Change)
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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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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!
Yes, we're changing it up a bit and putting out a challenge! Gather your friends, find a ringer and make your reservation to play and eat or just play or just eat. Food, fun and a little "learnin' about the environment," along with a few good Green Drinks and Green Drinkers and GREAT food -- that's what we've got on tap for you. Show off what you know ... or not, and just have a great time! Galway is turning over the dining room to us, creating a special menu and allowing us to fundraise this way. Lucky us! We hope this will be just the first of more trivia nights to come! Put together a team, come play and eat! Or, come drink and cheer. Or, come eat and cheer.
Fellow nonprofits, companies, politicians, Watershed Stewards, Riverkeepers, interested citizens, let's get some healthy competitions going! Who will get a ringer on their team?
Space is limited at Galway, so make your reservation now to join us next Wednesday! Call 410-263-8333.
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. The special 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 and we do strongly suggest you call in your reservatio to play. 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.
See you Wednesday!
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 Next Living Green
"Water Monitoring in Maryland Streams: How Data is Gathered and Used"
Guest: Dan Boward
Natural Resources Manager, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, and Executive Secretary of the Maryland Water Monitoring Council (MWMC)
The MWMC addresses issues such as climate change, stream restoration, and volunteer monitoring.
Tune in Wednesday, Feb. 11, 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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 2015 Legislative Session & the Environment
Among the environmental topics we can expect 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
Plastic Bag Ban
Microbeads Ban
If you don't know what these issues are all about, follow our website and Facebook page throughout the legislative session to learn more, including how you can get involved. We're preparing information for you now.
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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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