Green Living

From Legal Eagle to Water Guardian

As the South Riverkeeper, I am helping to make the river healthy for my children and yours

Jesse Iliff

Not too long ago, I was working in consumer-protection litigation. After law school, I took a job suing banks and shady lenders on behalf of consumers. That wasn’t where I really wanted to be. In law school at the University of Maryland, I had earned a certificate of concentration in environmental law. When I graduated in 2010, environmental law jobs weren’t as plentiful as I had hoped. So I sued banks instead.

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– by Jesse Iliff – 5/19/16

Why I’m a Riverkeeper

Having fun, making a difference and driving the pump-out boat

Jeff Holland

Almost a year ago, the West/Rhode Riverkeeper completed a living shoreline project at the end of the Camp Letts peninsula on the Rhode River. Over the past few decades, the land had been eroding from storms, boat wake and sea level rise. Hundred-year-old trees were toppling over a sandy bluff, and the silt made the water look like a soy latte.

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– by Jeff Holland – 4/14/16

Holy Waters

Churches on a mission to save the Bay

Kathy Knotts

Yes, we’ll gather at the river, The beautiful, the beautiful river; Gather with the saints at the river That flows by the throne of God. –Hymn by Robert Lowry

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– by Kathy Knotts – 3/24/16

Trees for the Bay

Roadside buffers trap pollution in their roots

Sandra Olivetti Martin

It’s not too early for planting trees — especially when you’ve got the digging power of the Maryland State Highway Administration. They’re busy planting roadside buffers of 8,700 trees in Anne Arundel County. Deciduous and evergreen in mixed rows, those trees will improve the health of the Chesapeake watershed by capturing pollution-producing nitrogen and phosphorus in their root systems.

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 3/17/16

The Chesapeake Waterkeepers

The Bay’s 19 riverkeepers are part of a worldwide force of 275

Mitchelle Stephenson

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It’s not. –Dr. Seuss: The Lorax 

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– by Mitchelle Stephenson – 3/10/16

The 100-Year Forest Experiment

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in for the long haul

Kristen Minogue

If you’ve ever planted a tree in your back yard, you’ve experienced the thrill of watching it grow from a knobby sapling into a towering oak or weeping willow. Multiply that by 20,000, and you’ll have some idea what Smithsonian ecologist John Parker is doing in his experimental forest in Edgewater. It’s called BiodiversiTree, and the project is designed to last a century. On March 15, Parker explains the project in a Smithsonian Environmental Research Center evening lecture.

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– by Kristen Minogue – 3/10/16

Lunch to Go

Is there a smarter way to package our takeout?

Kathy Knotts

Let’s talk lunch. As a child, each day I carried to school a packed lunch in a metal Holly Hobbie lunch box, later replaced by Wonder Woman. As an adult, I sometimes remember to pack a lunch from home. But more often than not, lunch is carryout. Bay Weekly prides itself on running an eco-friendly office, and we try to recycle the majority of our waste. Yet the sheer volume of take-out packaging that ends up in the garbage is disturbing.

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– by Kathy Knotts – 1/28/16

Fresh-Cut and -Broken Greens

From boxwood to white pine, you have many evergreen choices

Dr. Francis Gouin

Here in Bay Country, we have an abundance of evergreen plants to choose from. Many — but not all — narrowleaf greens will hold their needles if you treat them right, while adding beauty and aroma to your home. For long-lasting holiday greens, gather arborvitae, Canaan fir, Douglas fir, junipers, Nordman red cedar, red pine, Scots pine and white pine.

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– by Dr. Francis Gouin – 12/10/15

The Bay We Deserve

Celebrated Chesapeake writer and advocate Tom Horton on the state of our beloved estuary

Excerpted from a talk at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center’s 50th anniversary lecture series (Editor’s note: Horton’s words have been rearranged in the shape of this story)

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– by – 10/29/15

Sandy Point State Park Goes Green

Solar, wind and energy-efficient upgrades on the way

Kathy Knotts

Sandy Point State Park is a fine place to soak up the sun. Soon those rays will be turning into energy. The Board of Public Works approved a $535,870 contract with Baltimore-based Bithenergy to evaluate, design and install park upgrades, reducing total energy consumption by an estimated 45 percent. “Once installation is complete, Sandy Point will be the first state park to host alternative energy projects of this size and scale,” says parks superintendent Nita Settina.

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– by Kathy Knotts – 8/27/15

From Legal Eagle to Water Guardian

Why I’m a Riverkeeper

Holy Waters

Trees for the Bay

The Chesapeake Waterkeepers

The 100-Year Forest Experiment

Lunch to Go

Fresh-Cut and -Broken Greens

The Bay We Deserve

Sandy Point State Park Goes Green

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