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Celebrate the Chesapeake with your favorite Bay companion
A fun, educational resource for teachers, parents, and kids!
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Sunshine over a deep blue sea ...
A turtle called Susquehanna ...
I'm made of water, flowing water ...
- Chesapeake Born
These collected songs of Tom Wisner, the Bard of the Chesapeake, are the living, streaming, echoes of a unique and creative act of service. Knowing, singing and sharing these songs - especially with children - awakens a deeper awareness of our personal responsibility to the common good of all living beings and living systems of our earth.
Click here to visit the Finding Home Productions website and give the gift of the Chesapeake!
Only a sample of Tom Wisner's work is featured in this songbook and on the Chestory Virtual Archive. For more information about Tom Wisner and his work, please visit the Chesapeake Environmental Literacy website.
You can also view a slideshow featuring images from the Chestory Virtual Archive - click here to view!
Brought to you by Finding Home Productions LLC and the Center for the Chesapeake Story (Chestory),
a project of CHEARS.
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Please sign up today to help support CHEARS so that we can continue the work we do for our community!
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Greetings!
Please join GCAN organized meeting tomorrow night on...
Environmental Priorities for the 2013 MD Legislative Session
Featuring
Del. Heather Mizeur, Maryland General Assembly
Dannielle Lipinski, MD League of Conservation Voters
Hear the Activist and the Legislator present their unique perspectives on the vital environmental issues that will be addressed by the Maryland Legislature in 2013.
We will discuss the top four priorities of the Maryland environmental community; offshore wind, "fracking", pesticides, and clean water and the Chesapeake Bay.
To Environmental Priorities,
Kim Walsh
Executive Director
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Phase II Complete!
Together with Greenbelt Public Works department, University of Maryland, and the community, CHEARS planted 3 American Persimmons, 6 high-bush blueberries, 6 high-bush cranberries and 6 service berries as part of Phase II of GFF project. In Spring 2013, we will plant paw-paws, alpine strawberries, day lilies and other understory species. With the increase of urban tree canopy in Greenbelt West, it will help to reduce stormwater runoff into Indian Creek near Springhill Lake Recreation Center and lower the urban heat temperature.The GFF will also provide nutrients for humans and wildlife, and become self-fertilizing and extend the landscape into more trees and shrubs.
Thank you to all of our neighbors, partners, and University of Maryland students!
We couldn't have done it without you!
Are you interested in sharing your gardening skills? Contact Kristen
VMC Kristen will be collecting applications and conducting interviews to guide new volunteers in contributing to our outdoor garden classroom spaces. Contact her for more information on how you can get started.
"Our generation, like every other generation before us, has the responsibility of stewardship to Earth. In order to sustain the planet for future generations, people need to take their resources into their own hands..." - Luke, UMD ILS
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Are you interested in sharing your passion about Bay-friendly gardening?
CHEARS would like to offer community members new opportunities to volunteer at our Three Sisters Demonstration Gardens and contribute to our "Edible Watersheds" Workshop Series! Starting in 2013, Kristen will be collecting applications and conducting interviews to guide new volunteers in contributing to our outdoor classroom spaces.
Benefits Include:
- The opportunity to practice and share your skills with neighbors
- Making a direct impact on the health of the Chesapeake Bay through educating others about the benefits of pesticide-free gardening
- Working with community members to improve food security
- Meeting and working with people of similar interests
Come spend some time with us in 2013!
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GCAN: Greenbelt Climate Action Network
MEETINGS
- The next GCAN Meeting will be on Tuesday, January 15, at 7 pm, in the Community Center, Room 114 The topic is "Environmental Priorities for the 2013 MD Legislative Session". You should have received a separate GCAN email last week with details.
GCAN "ACTIVISTS"
We will have several opportunities to get involved this winter, including:
- CITY: Asking Greenbelt City Council to write a letter against Fracking in MD.Jennifer Robinson is coordinating a meeting in a private home, to plan out a presentation in front of the Greenbelt City Council. Save the date of Mon, Feb 25, when we will all gather in the City Council chambers.
- Be sure to go see the movie "Promised Land", which has now opened in theaters in Bethesda, Hyattsville, Bowie, Silver Spring, and Columbia. Click here for more information.
- COUNTY: Join an ad-hoc group that meets in College Park, to support a new county Draft Solid Waste Plan, that moves us in the direction of "Zero Waste". Email Lore for contact info.
- STATE: Work with CCAN in support of the Offshore Wind Energy Bill in Annapolis.
- FEDERAL: Carpool to DC on Sun, Feb 17, (time TBA) for the Rally against Keystone XL Pipeline, "Obama Climate Legacy" Action.
- *EXTRA*: if you are concerned with the unjust influence of money in politics, as a result of the 2010 Supreme Court Decision of "Citizens United", come join us on Thurs, Jan 17, 11 am, for a rally in Annapolis to Get Money Out of Politics, Lawyer's Mall, Annapolis, MD. This rally is to mark the third anniversary of the "Citizens United." RSVP by clicking here or let us know you're coming on Facebook.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
- The Greenbelt Barter Network has become the "Greenbelt TimeBank". We will be beta-testing the software (from TimeBanks USA) this month. Contact Lore for details.
- An ad-hoc group continues to meet to investigate a green, worker-owned cooperative. Two of the most popular ideas are a daycare center in Franklin Park and a Composting Facility to make organic soil for gardening.
- Re-Skilling Workshop Committee will most likely convene in January to plan another re-skilling workshop. The topic will probably be "weatherizing your windows". Contact Lore if you would like to attend the planning meeting.
DISCUSSION CIRCLES
Two circles are finishing up in January/February:
We can start either topic again this spring, as soon as we identify 8 interested people. Contact Lore.
*NEW* A new circle is starting in College Park on Wed, Jan 16th *NEW*
We are still trying to start a fourth circle:
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