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UM's green house earns real green - Baltimore Sun (blog)
Baltimore Sun (blog)
UM's green house earns real green
Baltimore Sun (blog)
So it turns out the University of Maryland's award-winning green home garnered some real green in selling it to Pepco. The Washington area utility paid $200000 for WaterShed, the solar-powered, water-recycling dwelling that beat out 19 other university ...
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New site caters to pets with the finest taste - So Md News
New site caters to pets with the finest taste
So Md News
She was also inspired by her husband, Russ, a former Charles County recycling manager who started a business collecting dog waste after he retired, she said. She was also motivated by her disappointment with products bought from chain pet stores, ...
Green Investors Beware: Cheap Natural Gas Might Derail The Renewable Energy Future - Kapitall Blog (blog)
Kapitall Blog (blog)
Green Investors Beware: Cheap Natural Gas Might Derail The Renewable Energy Future
Kapitall Blog (blog)
And it has left solar and wind, despite their own falling costs, heavily dependent on government mandates in California and roughly 30 other states, including Maryland.” Basically, natural gas, which was hailed for its low levels of greenhouse gas ...
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Carroll County Recycling Rate at All-Time High - Patch.com
Carroll County Recycling Rate at All-Time High
Patch.com
For 2011, Carroll County recorded a recycling rate of 41 percent, up from 38 percent in 2010 and up from 32 percent in 2008. Along with the county's additional efforts to divert waste, the overall rate is at 46 percent, well above the Maryland goal of ...
Ulman's state of the county: 'We must seize this moment' - Baltimore Sun
Ulman's state of the county: 'We must seize this moment'
Baltimore Sun
Ulman noted the recent creation of the Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship, an arm of the Howard County Economic Development Authority that he said "will wrap resources around entrepreneurs and provide the road map from innovation to commercialization ...
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Will Howard's food scrap program draw partners to the table or go down the drain? - Baltimore Sun (blog)
Baltimore Sun (blog)
Will Howard's food scrap program draw partners to the table or go down the drain?
Baltimore Sun (blog)
Meanwhile, the Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority is preparing to launch a study of the feasibility of building a local organics and food waste processing facility for its eight regional partners. And, large-scale commercial operations and ...
Fan Cans, LLC Launches New Motorsports-Themed Recycling and Waste Containers - PR Web (press release)
PR Web (press release)
Fan Cans, LLC Launches New Motorsports-Themed Recycling and Waste Containers
PR Web (press release)
About Fan Cans, LLC Fan CansTM, LLC is a Maryland-based company that has designed and patented sports affinity commercial recycling and waste container lids, and has a strategic manufacturing relationship with Toter, Inc. Fan Cans is the recipient of ...
Carroll County Recycling Rate at All-Time High - Patch.com
Carroll County Recycling Rate at All-Time High
Patch.com
By Valerie Bonk Statistics released by the Maryland Department of the Environment show Carroll County Residents care for the environment, taking “reduce, reuse, and recycle” to heart. For 2011, Carroll County recorded a recycling rate of 41 percent, ...
Pepco buys Solar Decathlon house - Washington Post (blog)
Pepco buys Solar Decathlon house
Washington Post (blog)
By Sara Kehaulani Goo The University of Maryland's entry in the Solar Decathlon, "Watershed," took the top prize. (University of Maryland) Pepco has purchased the University of Maryland's winning entry of the Solar Decathlon for $200000, ...
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Hagerstown City Council to put nonpartisan elections to a referendum - The Herald-Mail
Hagerstown City Council to put nonpartisan elections to a referendum
The Herald-Mail
Easton said he hasn't heard nearly the level of concern from citizens about this issue as several others, such as changes to recycling, taking out a $600000 loan or asking the community to support $10 million in renovations to the Hagerstown Suns' ...
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Disposable Bags May Be Tossed Out Once and For All - Patch.com
Disposable Bags May Be Tossed Out Once and For All
Patch.com
And with less than 1 percent of plastic bags being recycled, the vast majority ends up either in landfills where they toxify soil and groundwater, or become littered throughout our streetscapes, wildlife and waterways. The trend toward reusable bags is ...
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Disposable Bags May Be Tossed Out Once and For All - Patch.com
Disposable Bags May Be Tossed Out Once and For All
Patch.com
And with less than one percent of plastic bags being recycled, the vast majority ends up either in landfills where they toxify soil and groundwater, or become littered throughout our streetscapes, wildlife and waterways. The trend toward reusable bags ...
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Bill would ban wastewater created by hydraulic fracturing process - Cumberland Times-News
Bill would ban wastewater created by hydraulic fracturing process
Cumberland Times-News
The best way to prevent pollution from the fluids is to require recycling of fracking fluids. Recycling would minimize the risk to clean water, Cardin said. “My primary concern is the safety of Maryland's citizens,” said Robinson.
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Northwood High School Teacher Receives Educator of the Year Award - Patch.com
Northwood High School Teacher Receives Educator of the Year Award
Patch.com
26 before Maryland legislators in Annapolis. After praise from the president of the Maryland Senate and the head of the Chesapeake Bay Trust, Miller received the award for his "outstanding commitment to environmental education.
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Bay trust honors 2 county residents - Annapolis Capital
Bay trust honors 2 county residents
Annapolis Capital
Snider earned the $5000 scholarship for developing a recycling program at the school. He's also helping the school apply for Maryland Green School certification. The trust also honored Bob Gallagher, founder of the West/Rhode Riverkeeper program, ...
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General Assembly will tackle bag tax, same-sex marriage - Diamondback Online
General Assembly will tackle bag tax, same-sex marriage
Diamondback Online
Although Casa de Maryland, a local immigrant advocacy organization, attempted to challenge the validity of some of the petition's signatures before the state Board of Elections, the group ultimately decided to drop the charges.
Cuba's old guard faces a new world - Aljazeera.com
Cuba's old guard faces a new world
Aljazeera.com
"They are now really developing wind and solar energy, recycling and energy efficient light bulbs," Landu said. In the 1960s, Che Guevara became the iconic symbol of revolutionary internationalism, gallivanting around the Americas to spread the gospel ...
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No recycling an adjustment - Delmarva Daily Times
No recycling an adjustment
Delmarva Daily Times
I'd love to go back to recycling." Waste burning is not a Maryland Department of the Environment-approved method of recycling, Malone said, but Gov. Martin O'Malley has advocated for that to be changed. Seacrets Jamaica USA, Ocean City's largest ...
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No recycling an adjustment - Delmarva Now
No recycling an adjustment
Delmarva Now
I'd love to go back to recycling." Waste burning is not a Maryland Department of the Environment-approved method of recycling, Malone said, but Gov. Martin O'Malley has advocated for that to be changed. Seacrets Jamaica USA, Ocean City's largest ...
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Severna Park High Student Awarded Bay Trust Scholarship - Patch.com
Severna Park High Student Awarded Bay Trust Scholarship
Patch.com
The $5000 scholarship winner helped develop a successful recycling program at his school, and is leading the application process for Severna Park High School to be named a Maryland Green School. Snider is an active member of the Chesapeake Regional ...