03-10-2010 @ 7pm IMAGINE! FREDERICK: see award winning movie “Fresh” at the MET

02-10-2010 @11:30 Webinar on Our “Pollution Diet” and Pollution Reduction Planning

EPA will host a series of on-line webinars this year to provide updates on the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load, or “pollution diet.” The first one is scheduled for Thursday, February 25, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The agenda for the initial webinar includes an EPA update on Bay TMDL developments and a presentation [...]

02-17-2010 @ 5-7pm Green Drinks in Frederick City

Green Drinks location: Quynn’s Attic, 10 East Patrick Street (side entrance) in downtown Frederick.  Boonsboro-based, Glory Energy Solutions will have a 15-minute presentation and demo on home energy audits. Energy audits for the home and business are critical to energy conservation and lowering your utility bill.  Green Drinks is a monthly meet up of people working [...]

February 27th 10-noon (Saturday) Forum on Chesapeake Bay challenges and solution

Hope for the Chesapeake Bay: A survey of challenges and solutions for our community
Baltimore Museum of Industry—a Chesapeake Bay Gateway Network Site
1415 Key Highway, Baltimore 21230

November 19th 7pm (Thursday) “Keeping the Lights On…”

Using wind turbines and other emergency energy systems when the power goes down
ANNOUNCING the third program in a series of Community Education Programs about Small Wind Energy Systems  and is relevant for any person, small farm, non-profit organization (i.e. churches, clubs), school, municipality or rural small business enterprises interested in how to keep power on [...]

Waste Not! Frederick proposes zero waste

Waste Not! Frederick is a grassroots effort by citizens of Frederick County, Maryland to significantly reduce the amount waste generated by local government, businesses, and citizens alike. We seek to provide opportunities to recycle and compost where only limited efforts are currently in place.

Land Value Taxation: what is it, how has it worked elsewhere, and how would it work in Frederick City?

Guest Speaker:    Josh Vincent of The Center for the Study of Economics, http://www.urbantools.org/

Join Us to learn how to reduce on-farm/rural electricity costs

OURcommonWEallth programs joins with the Washington County Agriculture Marketing Department and Renewable Energy Stewardship, Inc. in hosting THREE free evening programs to help residents – especially farmers and rural small businesses and rural homeowners — reduce their increasing electricity costs. And this in turn can make farming operations more viable.

Citizens promote clean and renewable power production on farms in Frederick County

To the Board of County Commissioners

Farmers in Maryland get support to protect natural resources

Next week’s observances of Earth Day and Arbor Day are great times to remember all that farmers do for the environment. Agriculture is a leading industry in Maryland and the single largest land use. Maryland farmers play a key role in protecting our state’s natural resources, especially the Chesapeake Bay. During the last two decades, [...]

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