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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
- Dick Lahn
- Homestead Gardens
- Rick Kissel & Lee Finney
*multiple donations
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Check out our
Highlights:
Saturday, April 4 - Build a Stormwater Education Station in Parole
Saturday, April 11 -
Project Clean Stream in various locations
Tuesday, April 14 - Conowingo Dam: What are the options?
Thursday, April 16 - Green Drinks Annapolis
Saturday, April 18 - Scenic Rivers Land Trust's Walk for the
Woods
Sunday, April 19 - Earth Day at Quiet Waters Park
Saturday, April 25 - GreenScape 2015
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 Earth Day is April 22
Celebrate with Annapolis Green
at Green Drinks on April 16
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2015 Legislative Session
the Environment
 The legislators in the State House will be finished with this year's session soon. They have been dealing with 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.
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We Sprung Spring Green Drinks Returned to the Garden in March
A big thank you to Homestead Gardens for hosting our last Green Drinks in the midst of the 2015 Flower Show. It was a spectacular setting and our seventh March Green Drinks in the garden. Thank you also for the generous 25% discount coupons provided to Green Drinkers by Homestead.
Event Sponsor: Project Clean Stream
 Our event sponsor, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay informed about its
Project Clean Stream, highlighting ways YOU can volunteer for spring cleaning of our parks, streams, and other public places. The "official day" for Project Clean Stream is April 11, but you can register your cleanup or planting program that will take place on any date. This will give you more publicity on the PCS website resulting in more volunteers, trash bags and other supplies, and more. Special Thanks Appetizers, provided by Herrington on the Bay, were delicious and sustainable. We want to thank Anna Chaney and her staff for this. It was the talk of the event!  Our friend Jen Donahoe, owner of Mills Fine Wine & Spirits will offered wine tastings and full pours of two wines and several types of Maryland beer. Thank you to her and to our guest bartenders, Dave Guipe and Justen Sheppard.
The aptly named John Bloom was at Green Drinks representing the Main Street Annapolis Partnership's Annapolis in Bloom program. That is the program that, with Homestead Gardens, provides the beautiful summertime flower baskets downtown. They welcome donations from the community to keep this going.
Maryland Day
The Maryland Day program was well represented since Homestead Gardens was a new Maryland Day partner this year. Founding One Hundred Sponsors
Our eco-stations were in full view, but also the spectacular trailer Homestead is allowing us to use to house our eco-stations! We never thought we'd see the Annapolis Green 40 feet across! Thank you so much to Homestead owners Brian & Kendra Riddle.
Homestead also became our newest Founding One Hundred Sponsor that evening, but then as a surprise, Rick Kissel walked up during our announcements with a check from him and Lee Finney making them new Founding One Hundred Sponsors too! Thank you so much.
Responsible Events & Festivals: REF... Make the Right Call
Thanks to the trailer, we began our season in a big way, bringing Greening with our REF program to the Annapolis Maritime Museum's Oyster Roast and the South River Federation's South River on the Half Shell Auction. More info is coming soon on how YOU and your company an be more involved in in helping us Green our area's special events! Justen Garrity of Veteran Compost, who was at Green Drinks giving away small bags of compost, is our compost partner who "dishes the dirt." Read below for details about our April Green Drinks: "It's All About the Water."
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Thursday, April 16
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Annapolis Maritime Museum
723 Second Street  Theme
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Note: In order to cover our costs, we will charge $10 admission to this Green Drinks. Food, beer, cider, wine and soft drinks will be free and everyone will leave with a complimentary Stella Artois Chalice keepsake.
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Along with partners Stella Artois, Katef Brothers, and water.org, we are celebrating the 45th annual Earth Day and clean water in a local and global way.
Locally, we will focus on the importance of clean water to the ecology and heritage of Chesapeake country, from the beautiful vantage point of the Annapolis Maritime Museum.
Globally, we will participate in Buy a Lady a Drink, a social impact campaign founded by the Belgian premium beer, Stella Artois, and water.org -- an organization co-founded by Matt Damon. Buy a Lady a Drink's aim is to drive awareness of the global water crisis and help provide solutions. Every day, women around the world spend a combined 200 million hours collecting clean water for their families. Buy a Lady a Drink is designed to raise funds to help put a stop to these often-dangerous water-collecting journeys, so women can start new journeys of their own. Stella Artois has made a donation of $1.2 million to water.org and is now inviting consumers to join the cause by purchasing limited-edition Chalices. One Chalice will help water.org provide five years of clean water to one person in the developing world. We will give Green Drinkers the opportunity to purchase Chalices as they sample complimentary Stella Artois and Stella Cidre. And, we will treat you to a short video about Buy a Lady a Drink that demonstrates the need.   Our complimentary appetizers will be provided by two of the finest caterers in town -- one new one already well-known: Baroak, the new restaurant in Loews Annapolis Hotel; and Julie St. Marie Catering. Yum! Earth Day is April 22, but come to Green Drinks to celebrate early. Do plan to join Annapolis Green as we truly Think Globally and Act Locally during Earth Day month.
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