December 22, 2009
The best way to wrap up the holidays is to recycle the wrapping!
Recyclable paper includes wrapping, tissue and colored paper. You can also recycle cardboard packaging and boxes...
December 09, 2009
The Department of Public Works and the Initiative for a Cleaner Greener Baltimore are sponsoring a neighborhood recycling contest. Communities are encouraged to register from December 9 to...
November 19, 2009
The AFRO Clean Block developed in 1934 by Frances L Murphy I, is the nation’s oldest existing environmental program. The CLEAN-GREEN BLOCK AWARDS was a summer long competition...
November 19, 2009
The Initiative for a Cleaner Greener Baltimore and the Department of Public Works, Bureau of Solid Waste, partnered with The National Aquarium Conservation Team, Holly Hager and Charmaine...
November 19, 2009
We can all agree that it’s pretty nice to set out our household garbage in the morning and know that it will be gone by the end of the day. We never have to think about our trash...
November 19, 2009
What options does Charlie Brown have AFTER Christmas? What can he do with his humble holiday tree? If he were a resident of Baltimore City, he could have it mulched for a garden or a...
October 16, 2009
The Chesapeake Bay Trust has awarded the Jones Falls Watershed Association a $33,000 grant, in partnership with the Greater Homewood Community Corp.(GHCC), to plant 485 trees in...
October 16, 2009
Engineer, activist and greenhouse operator John Shepley points to Maryland’s burgeoning farmers markets as vigorous proof that environmental awareness can fuel economic...
October 16, 2009
People Powered Change is the mantra of the Reservoir Hill Improvement Council (RHIC) an umbrella association whose roots date to the late 1970’s. The Council is dedicated to the...
October 16, 2009
Banner Neighborhoods is a community based non-profit organization dedicated to supporting residents in their efforts to enhance the quality of life throughout 10 southeast Baltimore...
October 16, 2009
The Baltimore Neighborhood Energy Challenge (BNEC), a pilot program to help residents save money on their energy bills, is moving full speed ahead. Working in eight neighborhoods across the...
October 16, 2009
The official winner of the AFRO Clean-Green Block Contest for 2009 is the 1200 Block of Whatcoat Street in Sandtown-Winchester. Mayor Sheila The Mayor will took a “Neighborhood...
October 16, 2009
The newest City agency, the Department of General Services (DGS) has hit the ground running by leading the charge in saving energy dollars for municipal government. It does this through...
October 03, 2009
Museum for Heavy Metal: Big Truck Day on Saturday, October 3, 2009. The event will be held from 10am until 2pm at the museum which is located along Piers 6 and 7 in the InnerHarbor...
September 16, 2009
Buy trees from the Parks & People Foundation and watch your investment grow in your yard and in your neighborhood, helping to green Baltimore. Parks & People is a 501(c) 3...
September 16, 2009
The Parks & People Foundation, in partnership with the Baltimore Community Foundation and the Cleaner Greener Baltimore Initiative, provides up to $1,000 as Neighborhood Greening Grants...
September 16, 2009
On August 27, 2009 Mayor Sheila Dixon joined a team of 50 executives, employees of Fiskars and the Home Depot along with numerous volunteers from the Oliver Community residents, and the...
September 03, 2009
Jamie Kendrick, deputy director of Baltimore's Department of Transportation, passed along some figures showing that the city's commuter water taxi service between Locust Point and Fells...
September 03, 2009
Major Sheila Dixon and Mayo Shattuck III, Constellation Energy’s chairman, president and chief executive officer, announced a $500,000 investment in the Cleaner Greener Baltimore...
September 03, 2009
Did you know that there are 85 "stormsheds" that flow into Baltimore’s Harbor? Did you know that just one of them, Harris Creek Watershed 246 routinely dumps over three tons...
September 03, 2009
Inez Robb bought her home in the Sandtown Winchester Condominiums 22 years ago and has been working to improve the neighborhood ever since. The expression “When you want something...
September 03, 2009
Union Square’s trash can initiative is a three-part program with an overall goal of full compliance within their boundaries of all city trash laws. “However, the by-product...
August 29, 2009
It's been nearly two months since Mayor Dixon initiated her one PLUS ONE trash and recycling pickup and I took a look down my alley and wondered how it was working. From the looks of the...
August 11, 2009
The Mayor’s 120 Youthworks students, under the direction of Hope Williams, Cleaner Greener Baltimore, are continuing their summer of good works. They are assisting the Baltimore...
August 11, 2009
On a recent tour of just a few of East and West Baltimore community gardens, Miriam Avins, founder, Baltimore Green Space, revealed the incredible community gardens that are tucked away in...
August 10, 2009
by Alan Cohen
There are many wonderful things about living in BaltimoreCounty. I now live in Oella, a beautiful, historic hamlet across the PatapscoRiver from Ellicott City and...
August 02, 2009
City dwellers share bounty of one another’s green thumbs
By Dan Rodricks
August 2, 2009
Urban gardeners - green-thumbed Baltimoreans who grow their own fruits and vegetables on...
July 16, 2009
A few blocks south of The Mondawmin Mall is a wonderful neighborhood called Whittier-Monroe. Flowers burst from flower boxes in the summer and spacious and well-kept porches show off...
July 16, 2009
Background:
Civic Works, Baltimore’s non-profit urban service corps and AmeriCorps program, was founded in 1993 as a part of the Maryland Student Service Alliance. Its...
July 15, 2009
Reservoir Hill Improvement Council
Description:
RHIC has taken its “greening” work to another level by organizing all of this work under a single program – Greening...
July 14, 2009
Outdoor classrooms and gardens located on school campuses are gaining in popularity as many school districts are exploring new ways to teach children about where and how food is...
July 23, 2008
On July 23, Mayor Sheila Dixon harvested summer vegetables from the gardens at City Hall. You’ve seen those beautiful gardens grow all spring and now it’s time to begin the...
