Green Living

A Trio of Treats

Calvert County Farmers Markets

Michelle Steel

Tempt your taste buds with summer’s finest. Softball size tomatoes, basketball size cantaloupes, fresh baked cinnamon rolls along with golden sweet local honey are just a sampling of treasures found among Calvert County’s Farmers Markets.

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– by Michelle Steel – 7/19/12

Bad News Beetles

The emerald ash borer chews half of Maryland

Jesse Furgurson

Nothing may seem amiss, but the entire western half of Maryland is now a quarantine area. In 14 counties west of the Chesapeake and Susquehanna, Maryland Department of Agriculture has found evidence of the emerald ash borer. The destructive Asiatic beetle, which has conquered the west in nine years, kills ash trees from the inside out.

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– by Jesse Furgurson – 7/5/12

Bay Schooling

Go to summer school for TEAM DNR and you’ll be teaching come fall

Leigh Glenn

“I’m proud of you that you can name all the states in our watershed and not miss any,” said longtime TEAM DNR volunteer Penny Vahsen to fourth-graders at West Annapolis Elementary School. “Some students say California is part of our watershed.” Not Candice Gaylon’s class this past school year. They’re up on buffers, erosion and water pollution.

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– by Leigh Glenn – 7/5/12

Your Money at Work

Buying a Bay license plate or checking line 35 of your state tax form helps the Chesapeake

Aries Mathoes

What’s removed more than 1,000 tons of trash from the Bay, engaged 800,000 students and teachers and planted 500,000 trees and plants along the shoreline? Your Bay license plates and income tax check-offs.

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– by Aries Mathoes – 5/24/12

A to Z Recycling

26 ways to get your old stuff into the right hands

Leigh Glenn

Is your house growing tight around the middle? Consider this alphabet soup as your diet to lean down. Antiques and Art These have potential value. Search online, include collector clubs. Ebay may be a sales route and offers research leads. Antique stores. Call ahead. Building Materials Donate new, surplus and salvaged supplies and fixtures. Pick-up available.

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– by Leigh Glenn – 5/17/12

No Gas in the Tank

Bill Gingras has been trying to drive without fossil fuel

Margaret Tearman and Michelle Bazinet

For 38 years, local inventor Bill Gingras will never get lost. The compass he has painted on the driveway points him in the direction of the outside world, while the large spherical globe on his front lawn denotes home base. Throughout his life, this man of invention has created his own direction. At 82, the owner of the first — or maybe second — all-electric Nissan Leaf in Chesapeake Country is still pointing the way to the future.

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– by Margaret Tearman and Michelle Bazinet – 4/19/12

Taking In the Trash

One person’s trash is another’s visionary art at At Annmarie Garden

Christy Green

In Annmarie Garden of visionary art, odd ideas pop up like weeds, which visionary botanists tell us are misunderstood flowers. The newest sprout is artLAB, where heroes young and old turn trash into art in a new twist on recycling. The very creation of artLAB was an act of repurposing. The old café could be better used, Curator of Public Programs Jaimie Jeffrey decided, as an interactive teaching lab.

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– by Christy Green – 4/5/12

My House Is Leaking Money

Odds are good, yours is, tooOdds are good, yours is, too

J. Alex Knoll

If the kids left the door ajar with the air-conditioning running, you’d close it. If the windows were open and it grew too chilly, you’d shut them. If a tree crashed through your roof, you’d get it fixed. So you’d probably be surprised to learn that your home has a gaping hole — or its equivalent, made up of hundreds or even thousands of tiny points of ingress and egress, where air flows in or out.

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– by J. Alex Knoll – 3/29/12

What to Do about Our Growing eWaste?

Electronic devices contain hazardous materials that need proper recycling

Chrisy Green

In 2009, 438 million electronic products were sold, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. That’s the last year data are available, but with new products, sales are stronger than ever. So what to do with our old electronics?

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– by Chrisy Green – 2/16/12

Platinum Living

One family proves that an environmentally progressive home doesn't have to look like a science project

Margaret Tearman

Martha and Bill Sykora’s 1951 house looks like a conventional, home. Nothing sci-fi about it. Behind the façade, it’s anything but conventional. It will be Anne Arundel County’s first LEED Platinum-certified home. The Sykora home proves that an environmentally progressive building doesn’t have to look like a science project.

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– by Margaret Tearman – 1/5/12

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