Baltimore Green Week
Baltimore Green Week, April 17-24, 2010!
Thank you for sponsoring Baltimore Green Week 2010:
Just over a month has passed since the 7th Annual Baltimore Green Week and still, the excitement and conversations continue! There are a few things necessary to having a successful event; community interest and support, current and well presented information, feedback from participants and last, but not least, someone to put it all together.
Thank you all for your participation and support in making Baltimore a leader in sustainable living and in recognizing the importance of ongoing education and relevant conversation.
Please take a few minutes to complete the surveys below:
Survey: Baltimore Green Week Events
TO ALL OF OUR FRIENDS AND SPONSORS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
Lead Sponsors:
Annie E. Casey Foundation • MTA • Constellation Energy Foundation • Lorenz, Inc. • Urbanite Magazine
Sponsors & Donors:
Verizon Foundation • Restore Capital • Chubb & Sons Insurance • Citi Financial • Baltimore Community Foundation • City Living Magazine • T. Rowe Price • Kennedy, Porter & Associates • Chipotle Mexican Grill • Waste Neutral Group • 7 West Bistro • BOHO Zinfandel • Monthaven Chardonnay • Clipper City Brewing Company • The Wine Source • Real Food Farms • Gertrudes • The Dogwood Restaurant • Red Canoe Cafe • Clementine • and the Woodberry Kitchen.
Partners & Friends:
Baltimore City Department of Recreation & Parks • Baltimore City Office of Sustainability • TreeBaltimore • Maryland Port Administration • East Coast Organics • Chesapeake Sustainable Business Alliance • Neighborhood Design Center • MICA • Morgan State University • Civic Works • Parks & People Foundation • Towson Arts Collective • Earth Day Network • Frontier Dentists • June Star • Eliza Doering • For the People Entertainment • Senator Theater • Solo Cup • and all of our benevolent volunteer!
APRIL 17, 2010, ECOFEST – Noon-6 p.m. at Druid Hill Park
Join us in celebrating the health of our city with local food, friends and fun! Take a bike ride around the reservoir, test your balance in an outdoor yoga class or just sit back and enjoy the musical stylings of the Frontier Dentists, June Star, the RapDragons and For the People Entertainment. Let the kids take part in an art project, building a bamboo hut or playing with worms at the vermaculture demo! This event is FREE and open to the public.
For more information, visit the EcoFest page.
PRINT OUT YOUR 2010, BGWeek Program Guide HERE!
Don’t forget to swing by and visit the new Highlandtown Healthy Living Center from 1-4 p.m, 3700 Fleet Street Suite 200 Baltimore, MD 21224
- Bus #5, drop off at Lakeview Avenue
- Free shuttle service at the North Avenue Light Rail Station and Park & Ride
- Directions: 83 North/South to Exit 7 towards Druid Park Lake Drive, 1st Right into the Park on Swann Drive.
Celebrate the health of your city and your friends a EcoFest on April 17th!
For more information or to register as an EcoFest Vendor, download our Green Week-Ecofest Packet 2010
MONDAY, APRIL 19,2010
City Day
Baltimore Green Works, Baltimore City Recreation and Parks and the Baltimore City Office of Sustainability would like to invite our dedicated partners and volunteers for an evening reception at Cylburn Arboretum’s new green building, the Vollmer Center. In addition to the unveiling of the Annual Sustainability Report, you can take a tour of the grounds with Chief of Parks, Bill Vondrasek and be sure to hit up the plant sale for your spring color!
4:30–7:30 p.m. at 4915 Greenspring Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21209. Tours will begin at 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. RSVP is required, bgw@baltimoregreenworks.com or call 410.952.0334
- Bus #1 or 91, drop off at Cylburn Avenue
TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2010
Fabritory opens at the North Avenue Market!
MICA and Morgan State University will present sustainable solutions to community development needs. Throughout the semester, BGW was able to connect some of Baltimore’s leaders in local sustainability efforts with the students through a series of engaging conversations in the classroom. The focus was on the much needed neighborhood development of what was once our city’s northern border, the North Avenue corridor. The class touched on topics including transportation, infrastructure, waste management, local agriculture, community initiatives and the history of North Avenue. Students were then challenged to come up with sustainable solutions to some of these issues. Projects will be presented at the opening of Fabritory in the North Avenue Market.
20 West North Ave, Baltimore, MD, 21218, opening from 3-8 p.m., reception starts at 5 p.m. Refreshments will be served.
Free Tree Giveaway
TreeBaltimore at Eddie’s of Roland Park: 50 – FREE trees from TreeBaltimore will be available at Eddie’s from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2010
Tour the Port with the Maryland Port Administration!
You must be 18 or over to join. Limited to 15 passengers. Take a walking tour of the newest “green” addition to the Living Classroom facilities, Masonville Cove Environmental Education Center, as we discuss solar and geo-thermal systems. Follow this up with a drive through of the grounds, once a hazardous waste dump, which is now in the process of becoming a revitalized nature park. While in the tour van you will have the opportunity to talk to the Maryland Port Administration about Environmental Management System, emission reductions (stimulus grant), storm water management (water quality), and environmental sustainability (solar, geo-thermal projects.)
Meet at 3:30 p.m. at Masonville Cove, 1000 Frankfurst Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21226. RSVP’s required to bgw@baltimoregreenworks.com or call 410.952.0334.
- Bus #64, drop off at the Brooklyn Park and Ride or Harbor Hospital
Tree Plantings
Calvert Hall boys will mulch every tree in Druid Hill Park!
Film Viewing at the Senator Theater, 5904 York Road, 21212
7 p.m., End of the Line, In the film we see firsthand the effects of our global love affair with fish as food. It examines the imminent extinction of bluefin tuna, brought on by increasing western demand for sushi; the impact on marine life resulting in huge overpopulation of jellyfish; and the profound implications of a future world with no fish that would bring certain mass starvation.”
For more information, check out www.endoftheline.com,
7 p.m. at the Senator Theater, 5904 York Road, 21212. $5 donations requested but not required.
THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2010
Chemical Reaction, Chemical Reform:
Film viewing at the Senator Theater, 5904 York Road, 21212 w/ discussion to follow.
Chemicals have been in the news a lot lately, from baby bottles to cosmetics to that “new car smell.” But is there really a problem? The federal law governing toxic chemicals is 34-years old and has never been updated. During that time the EPA has only required testing of 200 of the 62,000 chemicals in use at the time the law passed and it’s only restricted 5. Join us in exploring how this is affecting our health. This event is presented in partnership with Baltimore Green Works and East Coast Organics.
- Doors open at 6 p.m., Reception with music provided by Baltimore’s own, Caleb Stein
- 8 p.m., Screening of Chemical Reaction – a story of the health affects of industrial chemicals and how one woman changed it!
- 8:45 p.m., Talk to Paul Tukey, Founder of SafeLawns.org and author of the Organic Lawn Care Manual and Andy Igrejas, Director of Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, the organization who is currently writing the bill that could force the chemical industry to take action.
Refreshments will be served. Donations requested but not required.
Tree Plantings:
Earth Day Celebration at Windsor Hills Elementary:
The Department of Recreation and Park’s TreeBaltimore, the BCPPS, Enterprise Rental, the Office of Sustainability and the Green School Ambassador will host a Green Fair for students and plant trees at Gwynns Falls Elementary and 9 other schools.
TreeBaltimore and Constellation Earth Day: ‘Bring Your Child to Work Day’ TreeBaltimore will provide FREE 1-gallon trees to Constellation families and Forestry will supply 1 street tree for planting by Constellation contractor.
Earth Day Celebration: The Department of Recreation and Park’s TreeBaltimore and the Students from the City’s Office of Sustainability Initiative will partner on the 2nd annual Earth Day by planting trees in Druid Hill Park.
FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 2010
Sustainable Food & Art
Local is as Local Does:
Taste local chef’s creations and talk to the farmers who they support.
$25 per person, meet at 11:45 a.m. at Civic Works’ Real Food Farms and get ready to sample the tastes and treats of some of Baltimore’s most sustainable restaurants! As we make our way through Charm City, local chefs and the farmers who they support will discuss their passion for and motivations behind serving only the best home grown delicacies. Limited to 15 passengers. This event is hosted in partnership with the Chesapeake Sustainable Business Alliance.
Get ready to tour from 12-4 p.m.:
- Real Food Farms, take a tour of the hoop houses and taste a little home grown pesto!
- Clementine
- Red Canoe
- The Dogwood
- Gerturude’s
- and last, but certainly not least, our friends at Woodberry Kitchen
Meet at 11:45 a.m. at Real Foods Farms Hoop Houses located by the Lake Clifton High School Campus in Clifton Park, 701 St. Lo Drive, Baltimore, MD 21213. RSVP required, contact bgw@baltimoregreenworks.com or call 410.952.0334.
Social Change Art Opening:
Artists gather in this juried show to address social change issues and to activate the community by engaging viewers with their re-use of materials, by eliciting reactions and starting conversations. The show will be juried by Rebecca Hoffberger, Founder of the American Visionary Arts Museum and Marc Steiner, Host of the Marc Steiner Show and Producer of Emerging Media.
6-8 p.m. at the Towson Arts Collective, 406 York Rd. Lower Level, Towson, MD 21204.
- #12 Bus Drops off at the corner of York & Chesapeake Ave.
Tree Plantings & Free Giveaway:
Walter P. Carter Tree Planting: TreeBaltimore and Constellation Energy will host a tree planting in partnership with the students at Walter P. Carter Elem/Middle, the Watershed Associations, Parks and People Foundation and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, AmeriCorps and Bike Baltimore.
Earth Day with the Greater Baltimore Leadership Association at Druid Hill Park: The Department of Recreation and Park’s TreeBaltimore and the Greater Baltimore Leadership Association will plant trees in Druid Hill Park with local schools including St. Ignatius Loyola 7th grade boys.
SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2010: Energy Conservation
Final Green by Design Workshop – a DIY Row home Weatherization Demo: Join us as we partner with the Neighborhood Design Center (NDC), Civic works and Banner Neighborhoods to offer a free workshop on weatherization and energy conservation in the home. Learn from the pros at Civic Works how to weatherize and improve the energy efficiency of your home: caulking, weatherstripping, and related techniques such as how to properly install a water heater blanket. Pre-weatherization safety considerations such as carbon monoxide, avoiding moisture and preventing mold/mildew will also be addressed. Join participants afterwards for a cookout in celebration of NDC’s Green by Design workshop series!
t 219 N. Chester Street, Baltimore, MD 21231 at 10 a.m. Limited to 20 participants, RSVP required to khumphrey@ndc-md.org or call 410.233.9686 ext. 101.
- Bus #13 drops off at the corner of Wolfe and Orleans Street
Tree Planting and Giveaway
Chinquapin Park Clean-up/Tree Planting with Delta Sigma from Morgan State: In a continuing effort to fix up the Hillen Road section of Chinquapin Park, with a tree planting and cleanup, along with laying the ground work for a neighborhood vegetable garden.
Walter P. Carter Tree Planting. Tree Give-A-Way and Tree Delivery: TreeBaltimore and Constellation Energy will host a FREE tree giveaway, tree planting and tree delivery do to help out we haven’t thought of to residents in partnership with the students at Walter P. Carter Elem/Middle, the Watershed Associations, Parks and People Foundation and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, AmeriCorps and Bike Baltimore. 820 East 43rd Street, Baltimore, MD 21212, 9 a.m. For more information contact treebaltimore@baltimorecity.gov or call 410.396.7900.
If there is something you would like to volunteer for, please let us know! As always, any help is greatly appreciated. Check out our website to see how you can be a part of Baltimore Green Week! For more information on any of these events, please contact bgw@baltimoregreenworks.com or call 410.952.0334.
Check back for updates and scheduling for Baltimore Green Week, 2010.
