February 10, 2015 Vol. 6 No. 4
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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:
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
Save the Date!
Saturday, Feb. 21 - Scenic Rivers Land Trust Hike at Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
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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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Save the Date!
Green Drinks in the Garden
Thurs., March 19
This will be the 7th consecutive year Homestead Gardens in Davidsonville will host the March Green Drinks amid the flowers! Save the date!
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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!
Instead of a traditional Green Drinks this month, we're challenging you to show off how much you know about the environment! Get your team together, find a ringer and make your reservation to play and, if you like, to enjoy a delicious Galway meal. 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. Galway is turning over the dining room to us, creating a special menu and allowing us to fundraise while we have fun and learn something too. Lucky us! We hope this will be just the first of more trivia nights to come!
Fellow nonprofits, companies, politicians, Watershed Stewards, Riverkeepers, interested citizens, let's get some healthy competitions going!
Space is limited at Galway, so make your reservation now to join us next tomorrow! 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 and there are even vegan alternatives. 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. You don't have to order a meal to play and you don't have to play to order a meal. But of course, we hope you'll do both! We'll have three courses of trivia questions to complement the three-course meal with three prizes for the winning team in each and then a final tie-breaker 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 tomorrow!
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 Next Living Green Feb. 11
"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 (121 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
Governor Hogan is holding a press conference today
to roll back the stormwater fee
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. Or see the Maryland League of Conservation Voters Issues page: Click here.
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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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Visit K&B True Value online, on Facebook and in person at 912 Forest Drive, Annapolis. Phone: (410) 268-3939.
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