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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
- County Executive 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
- Kevin Green
- Hannon Armstrong
- Clare Vanderbeek & Jack Morkan*
- Leonard Paper
- Watermark Journey
- Nancy & Bob Plaxico
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Steve Kahle, SKA Studio
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Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
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Blades of Green
*multiple donations
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Upcoming Events
Friday - Sunday, August 5 - 21
- Oyster Olympics: Through the course of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, the Oyster Recovery Partnership and Flying Dog beer will partner with select Shell Recycling Alliance restaurants featuring an oyster special of their choice, paired with Flying Dog beer in a commemorative Oyster Olympics pint glass. Proceeds from the event support oyster restoration in the Chesapeake Bay.
Sunday, August 7
- First Sunday Arts Festival
11 a.m. - 5 p.m., West and Calvert Streets, Annapolis
Street festival, art market, entertainment venue, and arts & craft fair all rolled into one. Free admission.
*Support local businesses
Thursday, August 11
- Free Kayak Lessons with West/Rhode Riverkeeper
- Watershed Stewards Academy Information Session. Learn about how to become a Certified Master Watershed Steward.
- Summer Film Festival: The Greater Annapolis Interfaith Network presents "A Fierce Green Fire," a film about the history of the environmental movement and provides lessons in efforts to protect and care for our local environment and the challenge of imminent climate change.
- National Drive Electric Week Annapolis Showcase, noon to 4 p.m., City Dock
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Where does the recycling go?
TWO NEW DATES!
Interest in a tour of the Waste Management Materials Reclamation Facility has caused us to schedule TWO tours!
Now we'll Talk Trash on September 7 and 14.
Have you ever wondered where that bottle you put in the recycling bin goes? Here's your chance to see the facility where all our recycling is processed. It's an incredible operation. The sheer numbers will blow you away.
Wednesday, September 7
or
Wednesday, September 14
10 - 11:30 a.m.
Waste Management's Materials Reclamation Facility
7175 Kit Kat Road, Elkridge, Maryland
This single-stream recycling facility is the largest in the nation, serving the greater Baltimore-Washington area as well as Howard and Anne Arundel Counties.
A $10 donation to Annapolis Green is requested. Each tour is limited to the first 10 people who sign up. Adults only. Wear close-toe shoes. Transportation is not provided but we can arrange car-pooling. To sign up email Elvia Thompson.
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  Get Outside!
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You haven't heard from us for a bit because we're engaged in an Olympian effort - Greening the Annapolis Rotary's 71st Annual Crab Feast. The event takes place this afternoon, August 5, from 5-8 p.m. at the Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. We're making it possible for ALL the waste from the event, which draws over 2500 people, to be composted or recycled. That means that NOTHING will go to the landfill!
Read more below.
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We had a great time on Tuesday, July 19
at
Great Frogs Winery
Theme
Drink Local. Eat Local. Support Local.
Event Sponsor
It was a warm but very enjoyable evening when Green Drinkers enjoyed terrific wine and food in the lovely, bucolic setting of at Great Frogs Winery. Green Drinkers had a taste of seven premium wines, a full glass and a souvenir glass along with a delicious appetizer buffet.
La Prima Food Group, known for its award-winning catered events and environmentally friendly farm to table fare, outdid itself with the organic, light appetizers buffet provided Green Drinkers. The food was right out of the field from USDA Organic Certified Groundworks Farm. Everything on the menu of Avocado Corn Salsa Cups, Veggie and Fruit Rollups, Tuna and Squash Carpaccio, and Blueberry Pavlova was as delicious is it was imaginative. What a treat.
Dave Evans, President of La Prima, spoke for a few minutes about the work of his devoted staff, including Chef Kyle. And we were astounded when we received a note from Dave the next day saying the payment we made for the buffet would not be accepted because he wants us to "Use the funds to further what you are doing." La Prima became a Founding
One Hundred supporter some time ago. We are so grateful for the continued support of this wonderful local company. Thank you!
 We'd like also to thank our event sponsor, Blades of Green Lawn Care and Pest Control. Brad Leahy, Vice President of Blades of Green, spoke about how he is working to change the tide in his industry to move toward Earth friendly practices. Blades of Green demonstrates that you can keep your yard beautiful AND your family safe from pests without poisoning the Earth. The company, an Annapolis Green Founding One Hundred supporter, is locally owned and operated and has been servicing homes and businesses for over 25 years.
 And to our hosts, Nate and Andrea O'Shea, Great Frogs' winemakers, thank you! They have been very supportive of Annapolis Green's efforts and Great Frogs is our newest Founding One Hundred supporter. We thanked them for donating the staves we used for the stave walls in the Annapolis Green House and the labor of their carpenter, Lee King. We also recognized Jim Morrison of MyLogoOnIt.com, the engraver of the staves.
At Green Drinks Nate gave a few brief tours of the barrel room where the wines are blended, aged bottled. That was great fun.
Green Drinks at Great Frogs was a magical way to spend a warm summer evening and supporting the local economy: Drink Local. Eat Local. Support Local!
 Green Drinks marked both the 2016 Buy Local Week Challenge (July 23-31) and Maryland Wine Week (July 22-31). The Buy Local Challenge asks Marylanders to eat at least one thing from a local farm every day during the week. The annual Maryland Wine Week is a celebration of Maryland wine, hard cider and mead produced by the more than 75 wineries throughout the state. Let's eat and drink the bounty of Maryland every week and support local agriculture, an important part of our economy!
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Annapolis Rotary Crab Feast
A ZERO-Waste Event
Friday, August 5Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium
5 - 8 p.m.
 Our biggest REF event!
Annapolis Green is making it possible for the Annapolis Rotary to be the shining example of how an enormous undertaking can happen in a way that is good for the Earth.
This is the third year Annapolis Green is working with Rotary. When we started beverage containers were recycled, but the huge amount of food waste and serving containers went to the landfill. That's not the case now!
We all will be working to make sure that crab shells, watermelon rinds, corn cobs, hot dog, soup and BBQ leftovers, trays, cups, and paper goods are collected and composted. Within two months, our partners at Veteran Compost will turn that waste material into beautiful, sweet-smelling compost ready to make gardens beautiful! Plastic and metal beverage containers will be recycled and NOTHING will go to the landfill.
Tomorrow afternoon 2500 hungry crab feasters will be gently encouraged to do the right thing by recycling & composting tons (Really, tons!) at this iconic event, now in its 71st year!
We have a terrific cadre of volunteers who will do just that and they will look really spiffy too, in the t-shirts pictured above, thanks to Captain's Club Apparel. The store, at 168 Main Street, has donated our volunteer shirts! Everyone is invited to Captain's Club's ribbon cutting on Saturday at 11 a.m. We want to thank the Rotarians for working so hard to make the Greening aspect of this big event successful along with our partners, Captain's Club Apparel, Veteran Compost, and Bay Area Disposal.If you're coming to feast tomorrow, look for our recycling and composting bins and visit our table. We'd love to see you!
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