Growing Home Residential Tree Planting Campaign is Growing in the Region
Towson, Md.(April 14, 2008)
Towson, Md.(April 14, 2008)
No Admission Charge for Ladew Gardens Sat-Sun
Ladew is waiving the normal $10 admission charge this coming Sat and Sun April 19 - 20. This would be a chance for you to combine a bike ride with seeing the spring flowers and tulips. Ladew is located on Dulaney Valley Road (RT 146) 5 miles north of Jacksonville. Their weekend hours are 10:30am - 5pm. Although bikes aren't allowed in the gardens, bikes may be locked in the picnic area or the fence adjacent to the parking lot. Think spring|
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Baltimore Green Week
April 25th to May 2nd - is a weeklong program comprised of community events, forums, lectures, hands-on activities and the EcoFestival - all which focus on greening and the value of a sustainable lifestyle. Through our events we seek to increase awareness about how local residents can make the Baltimore region environmentally friendly for all who live and work here. Our mission is to further the voice of organizations that promote a healthy living environment. This year marks the fifth year of Baltimore Green Week (BGW). In 2007, over 5000 people attended BGW events. Started by regional volunteers, Baltimore Green Week remains a volunteer-driven event.
The Cost of Litter
Litter is not only ugly, it
The Baltimore Green Home Tour
This is your only chance to see a wide range of environmentally friendly homes! Learn what's on the market now, and how you can turn your dream home into a healthier, more sustainable place to live.Saturday April 26 12:30 & 2:30
Buses will leave from EcoFestival in Druid Hill Park. Visit the City Life Realty booth at EcoFestival to pick up your tickets and information pack.
The Tour is Free, but Space is Limited! Register today to save your seat! <a href="http://www.BaltimoreGreenHomeTour.com">www.BaltimoreGreenHomeTour.com</a>; or (410) 889-3191
Running the Numbers An American Self-Portrait
This series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 410,000 paper cups used every fifteen minutes. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. The underlying desire is to emphasize the role of the individual in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming.My only caveat about this series is that the prints must be seen in person to be experienced the way they are intended. As with any large artwork, their scale carries a vital part of their substance which is lost in these little web images. Hopefully the JPEGs displayed here might be enough to arouse your curiosity to attend an exhibition, or to arrange one if you are in a position to do so. The series is a work in progress, and new images will be posted as they are completed, so please stay tuned.
The milkman is back in Baltimore.
Some Mount Washington residents are getting dairy products delivered to their front door from a small Frederick County farm. Customers say the convenience and quality as well as the comfort of knowing where the products come from makes it worth the added cost.South Mountain Creamery began the service in Baltimore late last month, and is the only dairy believed to be delivering milk to customers' doors in Maryland, according to agriculture officials and industry experts. The farm joins a small number of others around the country that have rekindled a promising niche market.
Customers are paying a premium for the convenience in part because of higher gasoline and milk prices.
The weekly delivery costs $3.50. And a half-gallon of the farm's milk costs $3.09 - about 70 cents more than at a local grocery store.
The delivery, which can include other products from mostly local farms such as yogurt, juice and goat cheese, is left in a small cooler on a customer's porch.
"Outside of the nostalgia of getting the milk out of the cooler, it really is a great service to have," said Marie Fortuno-Schifflett, a Mount Washington resident and mother of two teenagers. "It really does taste better, and the fact that it's not laden with byproducts like hormones makes me feel a little bit better."
Family-owned South Mountain Creamery started delivering milk in 2001 from the back of a Ford Explorer in an effort to gain control of its prices. Now the dairy farm of 200 milking cows has grown from delivering to 13 homes to about 2,600 residences in the Washington-Baltimore region.
"I never intended to go as far as we have," said Tony Brusco, who runs the creamery portion of the farm's business.
Although the farm isn't certified as organic because of the cost involved, it does not give its cows growth hormones. The animals graze on pastures devoid of pesticides and eat hay grown on the farm. The milk is delivered in reusable glass bottles.
Brusco said Baltimore customers expressed interest in South Mountain Creamery's products for a few years but he never had enough business to make the 60-mile drive worth it. His general rule is that there needs to be one customer per mile.
Mike Siegel, a Mount Washington resident and law student, wanted the delivery service to come to his neighborhood for environmental reasons as well as for the convenience. So, through a Mount Washington e-mail discussion group, he recruited about 80 customers.
"I'd rather pay the guy that produced it rather than the retailer who pays the distributor who then pays the producer," said Siegel who is a fan of the farm's non-homogenized cream-topped milk.
Although South Mountain began delivering to Mount Washington three weeks ago, the farm's products have been available in a few neighborhoods since July. That's when P.J. Keating, owner of his own delivery service called Hey, Milkman!, began purchasing the products at wholesale and reselling to about 20 residents in Federal Hill, Canton, Mount Vernon and other Baltimore neighborhoods.
Tips for greener motoring
The amount of fuel a car uses is directly related to the amount of greenhouse gas emissions it produces. Selecting the right car for your needs and using it wisely will reduce your fuel consumption and help you save money and the environment.There are three areas to think about when trying to reduce emissions:
* What car you drive
* How you drive
* Where, when & how often you drive
GREEN & TALL
| Based on a net-zero-energy model, the Pearl River Tower is designed to significantly reduce the building
The Reality Behind Bottled Water
1. Because water is a human right and not a commodity to be bought and sold for profit2. Because bottled water corporations are changing the very way people think about water and undermining people's confidence in public water systems 3. Because up to 40% of bottled water in the U.S. and Canada is sourced from municipal tap water 4. Because some bottlers have run over communities' concerns and the environment when they extract water and build bottling plants to get local spring and ground water 5. Because bottled water travels many miles from the source, results in the burning of massive amounts of fossil fuels, and contributes to the billions of plastic bottles ending up in our landfills 6. Because worldwide there is a need for investments in public water systems to ensure equal access to water, a key ingredient for prosperity and health for all people; and 7. Because solutions to ensuring water as a fundamental human right require people acting together and standing up for public water systems |