PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY SUSTAINABILITY SUMMIT FOR HOMEOWNERS AND CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 6:30-8:30PM

Learn more about how your Prince George's County homeowner or civic association can organize itself to become a more sustainable community. Hear from Green Teams from across the County about their efforts to address stormwater management; become more energy efficient; create safer streets; foster greater community engagement, and more!

Learn how your community can organize a Green Team and receive assistance to create a customized Sustainability Action Plan.

Date: Thursday, March 30

Time: 6:30-8:30pm

Location: Zoom

Join us for this FREE virtual event!

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EARTH MONTH EVENTS ACROSS MARYLAND

Check out one of these Earth Month/Earth Day/Arbor Day events in April and May:

• Gaithersburg Green Month
• Laurel No Mow April
• Middletown Green Expo, April 22
• Bowie Earth Day Celebration, April 22
• Montgomery County Green Fest, April 22
• Hagerstown Earth Day Community Clean Up & Tree Planting, April 22
• Earth Day Arts Extravaganza, Easton, April 22
• Harford County (Aberdeen) Earth Day Celebration, April 22
• Laurel Lakes Clean-Up at Granville Gude Park, 9am, April 22
• Leonardtown Earth Day Celebration, April 16-22
• Boonsboro Earth Day & Arbor Day Celebration, April 23
• Arbor Day Tree Planting, Middletown, April 28
• Greenbelt Green Man Festival, May 13-14

WEBINAR: 2023 SM CERTIFICATION, APRIL 5

Join Sustainable Maryland staff on Wednesday, April 5 from 2:00 - 3:00pm for an overview of the 2023 Sustainable Maryland certification process.

If you are re-certifying, or this is your first time applying, we have some exciting new additions to our program and the certification process in the last year, including:

• More than 20 new SM Actions
• New SM Action Categories: Historic Preservation and Transportation

So whether your municipality will be applying for certification or re-certification this year, you are looking for inspiration for new Actions, or updating your Action Plan, please join us on April 5!

Click here to register and for Zoom link/password.

TOUR OF STORMWATER RETROFIT INTERSECTION, COLMAR MANOR, APRIL 17

Join SM staff on Monday, April 17 from 6:30-7:30pm for a guided tour of a stormwater retrofit of an intersection in Colmar Manor. This project was funded by the Town with federal and state grants. It features the heavy-duty, low maintenance PaveDrain system of permeable pavement as the roadway. Ernest Maier staff, who manufactures the product in Bladensburg, MD, will explain how a low-maintenance project like this can make your community more stormwater-friendly and minimize flooding, and the resources and funding available to implement it. Check out this short video of a Pave Drain installation.

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SM VIRTUAL SPRING HAPPY HOUR

APRIL 14, 4-5PM

Join the SM Team on Friday, April 14, 4:00-5:00PM for our first virtual Happy Hour of 2023.

Please join us for an informal check-in to share your local projects, challenges and questions about the SM program and resources.

All are welcome - Green Teams, Elected Officials, Government Staff, and State/Nonprofit representatives. 

Click here to log into the Zoom meeting

QUOTE

"The eastern half [of the US] is so much further ahead of schedule in terms of spring. Almost everyone I speak to about this has this existential anxiety that we are seeing climate change playing out in real time."

- Teresa Crimmins, director of the National Phenology Network and an environmental scientist at the University of Arizona, on the Network's report that parts of Ohio, Maryland, and New York are all recording their earliest spring conditions on record.