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That’s (not) a Wrap – Environmental Legislative Wrap-up
Midnight, April 8, 2013, marked the close of the Maryland General Assembly session. According to the Maryland League of Conservation voters, the hot environmental issues for this year’s agenda were: Offshore Wind Marcellus Shale – Hydraulic Fracturing Smart on Pesticides: … Continue reading
Maryland General Assembly – Environmental Legislative Agenda 2013
It’s a new year and environmental issues abound in the Maryland Legislature. According to the League of Conservation Voters, www.mdlcv.org/issues, the hot ticket items for this year’s Environmental Legislative Agenda are: Clean Water Healthy Families Offshore Wind Marcellus Shale – … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, Guest Contributors
Tagged 2013, bottle bill, clean water, Environmental Legislative Agenda, fracking, Maryland, Maryland General Assembly, wind power
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Your corner of the world
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on Baystride Images. The author was inspired by a keynote speech given at a conference in Norfolk by Sustainable Growth’s Ned Tillman. By John Gresham Yes, after way too long, I am back on … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Guest Contributors, People
Tagged Baystride Images, Chesapeake, Chesapeake Bay, Jacks Creek, John Gresham, Maryland, NAI, National Association of Interpretation, Ned Tillman, Norfolk, The Chesapeake Watershed: A Sense of Place and a Call to Action, the Parrot Islands, Virginia, Virginia Outdoors, Virginia State Parks
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I vote for a ballot initiative that would make recycling mandatory
by Danielle Angeline Recent state ballots put recreational marijuana and gay marriage to votes. Why was mandatory recycling not included? Although opinions vary on making recycling mandatory, there is strong evidence that the environment, humans and animals would reap significant … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, Guest Contributors, Opportunities
Tagged 66 days, aluminum, Danielle Angeline, diversion rate, diversion rates, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, glass, glass industry, habit, Howard County, mandatory recycling, Maryland, mixed, oversized recycling container, paper, participation, rate, rates, recycling, single-stream, UCL, University College London
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Sustainability in the Fortune 500
I recently visited some colleagues at URS Corp. that I’ve known for more than 20 years. Over the past several years, URS has grown into one of the largest engineering design and technical services firms in the world with more … Continue reading
Posted in Business Management, Business Profile, Opportunities, People, Technology
Tagged Fortune 500, Germantown, Green Team, LEED, Maryland, systemic sustainability planning, URS
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Passive optical networks can lower electricity consumption by 57 percent
The veracity of a The New York Times story published last month on the vast demands for electricity associated with modern Internet data centers has been hotly debated on blogs and forums. In the story, Peter Gross, who helped design … Continue reading
Posted in Business Management, Business Profile, Energy, Environment, Technology
Tagged 57%, building owners, cable, Cannon USA, Charlie Weis, Columbia, copper, electricity, Finland, FiOS, Fredericksburg, Gartner Research, Google, LAN, Maryland, Melville, New York, Notre Dame, One Cannon Park, passive optical networks, percent, PON, REITS, The New York Times, Tom Napoli, TRM, Verizon, Virginia, WAN
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Product recovery is more than a hobby
I passed a man down by the water’s edge this morning as I walked around Lake Elkhorn. At first glance I took him for a fisherman. Then I saw he carried an aluminum extension pole with a small wire cage … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Opportunities, People
Tagged crank baits, fishing, fishing lures, hooks, lures, Maryland, Mike Sexton, plastic worms, Potomac, product recovery, Waldorf
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The big sacred water that is our earthly home
by Elaine Pardoe I think water calls to all of us; even in drought we live in a watery habitat which is part of the big sacred water that is our earthly home. When I get out of bed in the … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Guest Contributors, Opportunities, People
Tagged Columbia, Elaine Pardoe, environmental activist, fertilizer, gasoline and oil, Lake Elkhorn, management, Maryland, National Audubon Society, pesticides, pet droppings, soil, stormwater, trash
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Maryland Forest Conservation Act celebrates third anniversary of its 2009 overhaul
by Karin DeLaitsch I’ve always had a great appreciation of forests and the value of trees. I grew up in an area of the Midwest known as Paper Valley where the local economy relied heavily on sustaining forests for the … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Guest Contributors, Opportunities, People
Tagged Christmas, Christmas tree, DNR, FCA, Forest Conservation Act, Forest Service, Maryland, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Maryland DNR, Paper Valley, tree farm
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Fact check: can renewable energy lower costs AND conserve resources?
Almost all of us would like to see our utility rates go down no matter where the energy comes from. Most of us would also like to buy energy from renewable sources so we could stop wasting finite resources, polluting the … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, Opportunities, Technology
Tagged Clean Currents, coal, Columbia, DC, Eric Vermeiren, Gary Skulnik, gas, Maryland, nuclear, OBIC, oil, Owen Brown Interfaith Center, renewable energy, solar, Washington, wind
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