March 4, 2015 Vol. 6 No. 6
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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
Here are some highlights:
Saturday, March 7 - William Cullina Speake on the Botany of Design
Thursday, March 12 - rescheduled from March 5
Annapolis Maritime Museum Lecture: Launching Barren Island Oysters: New York Photographer to Oyster Aquaculturist
Saturday, March 14 - DACA Green Expo
Wednesday, March 18 - Severn River Association Presentation: Home Septic Systems - Are They the Severn's Biggest Polluter?
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Green Restaurant Week
March 16-20
The City of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County are teaming up to promote Green Restaurant Week from March 16 to 20. The week is focuses on restaurants that operate in an environmentally friendly and sustainable manner. Seventeen local restaurants are participating.
We at Annapolis Green have been showcasing these restaurants for years at our Green Drinks events and by asking the Annapolis Restaurant Week organizers to give a special designation to these establishments. So we glad to see that a whole week has been set aside for this.
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5th Annual Annapolis Oyster Roast & Sock Burning
Annapolis Maritime Museum
March 21, noon to 5 p.m.
Celebrate the coming of spring at this feast featuring the Chesapeake's most cherished bivalve.
Composting and recycling provided by Annapolis Green's REF program with sponsorship from Mercedes Benz of Annapolis.
This is a fund raiser for the Museum, whose ecology and heritage education program reaches thousands of school children each year. Information at amaritime.org
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Project Clean Stream Incentive
Register Your Project by Monday
Planning a cleanup this spring? -- whether it's GreenScape or just something you've organized on your own in your neighborhood -- we're helping our Green Drinks sponsor, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, get the word out about its Project Clean Stream (PCS), a cleanup effort throughout the watershed.
If you register your cleanups or planting days with PCS by Monday, March 9, you'll be entered in chance to win Alliance giveaways, including two tickets to the Environmental Showcase at the Annapolis Film Festival on March 28.
Registering your event will give it more visibility, more volunteers, and supplies such as bags, a first aid kit, gloves, and more.
Information
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Celebrate Spring! Green Drinks Returns to the Garden Thursday, March 19
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Homestead Gardens 743 West Central Avenue, Davidsonville
 It has become a tradition for Green Drinks to return to Homestead Gardens (our 7th time) during its Flower Show Week. And this year's flower show theme is only too fitting... Celebrate Maryland! It's the perfect tie-in with Maryland Day, particularly since this is Homestead Gardens' first year as a participant in that celebration. See more about Maryland Day below.
So, snow be gone! We want to celebrate all things Spring:
- Project Clean Stream
- Homestead Gardens' Celebrate Maryland Flower Show
- Annapolis Green's partnership with Homestead Gardens
- Maryland Day's Growing A Little Greener Initiative
Green Drinks' theme will be the watershed-wide Project Clean Stream, Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup and GreenScape in the City of Annapolis -- three ways you can donate a few hours of your time to improve our community.  Our event sponsor is the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, organizer of Project Clean Stream.
And, by popular demand, we'll have a return of our favorite repeat partners:
 Herrington on the Bay, a premiere Maryland waterfront wedding and special event site overlooking the Chesapeake Bay, will spoil us with their sustainable, delicious, and locally sourced appetizers. In fact, some of the very farmers whose food we will enjoy will join us.
 Mills Fine Wine & Spirits will let us sample and enjoy their selection of beer and wine, including organic and local.
If you've never joined us before at Homestead, you must. It's our most-anticipated Green Drinks. And who isn't ready for some beautiful flowers after this dismal winter!
Homestead loves to give us reasons to return... this time by generously providing discount coupons for Green Drinkers.
And, before the evening's done, we will be making a special announcement of our new partnership with Homestead Gardens!
 Homestead's "Celebrate Maryland 2015 Flower Show" showcases the rich heritage of our state as we experience a miniature Maryland (with displays and information about Seaside Living, Agrarian Living, Annapolis Living, Urban Living, and Mountain Living).
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Vote to Say Thank You to Galway Bay Irish Pub
and the Irish Restaurant Company
Our Non-Trivial Green Trivia Night held in February at Galway Bay was not only a blast and a fun way to learn something about the Chesapeake and the environment in general, it also was a FUNdraiser for us. We netted $480 from the evening, including this generous check from Galway Bay Irish Pub, presented to us by Gary Brown, Assistant General Manager. Thank you!
 Galway is one of our Founding One Hundred sponsors. And as they support us, we support them by asking you to vote, now through March 11, in the in 61st Annual Stars of the Industry Awards celebrating Maryland's most elite restaurants and hospitality professionals.
Galway is in the running as Favorite Bar or Tavern. Its parent, the Irish Restaurant Company (which also runs Killarney House and Brian Boru) was nominated for the for McCormick Cornerstone of Industry Award; and co-owner Anthony Clarke was nominated for Restaurateur of the Year.
Show our Irish supporters and friends some love and VOTE by Wednesday!
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Stormwater Fee Under Attack
How do you feel about paying less than 24 cents per day
for clean water?
 Three Anne Arundel County Councilmen have introduced bills to do away with the dedicated fund that is making possible retrofits and restoration to treat polluted stormwater. The County Executive is supporting this. It is a mistake. Trying to pay for polluted stormwater remidiation from the General Fund will guarantee that it will not happen or that the effort will be so far reduced that the County will not be able to meet its responsibilities under the EPA mandate and the Bay's health will continue to deteriorate. Further, the County Executive has promised a 3% property tax decrease as well. Exactly where will the polluted stormwater remediation money come from then? Will it be at the expense of more police officers or school improvements? We don't think so. Find out more and what YOU can do.
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Maryland Day Weekend
"Growing A Little Greener"
Friday-Sunday, March 20-22
Green Drinks will be held on the eve of Maryland Day weekend, March 20-22. Maryland Day commemorates the formal
founding of the colony of Maryland, which by historical accounts, took place on March 25 of 1633 or 1634.
Our local area's celebration of Maryland Day is organized by the Four Rivers Heritage Area and many locations are participating including, for the first time, our hosts, Homestead Gardens.
For the past three years, Annapolis Green has helped the participating sites and attendees in "Growing a Little Greener". Partnering with Maryland Green Travel, Annapolis Green is providing guidance on becoming more sustainable operationally and during the weekend's event. More details are on "Growing a Little Greener" page on the Maryland Day website.
Learn more about Maryland Day at Green Drinks and at the Maryland Day website, marylandday.org. During the Maryland Day weekend, many attractions that usually charge admission will be free or charging just $1. It's a great opportunity to get to know more about our state.
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2015 Legislative Session
the Environment
 Things are moving in the State House on a number of bills that cover topics such as: Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard; Fracking; Stormwater Treatment Legislation; Pesicides; Plastic Bag Ban; and Microbeads Ban.
If you don't know what these issues are all about, see the Maryland League of Conservation Voters Issues page and let your representatives know where you stand. 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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