Archive for the ‘environment’ Category
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Does a bear tweet in the woods?
When bear hunting season opens October 26, the state Department of Natural Resources plans to keep hunters informed by using Twitter.
The DNR has put a limitation on this year’s hunt of 60 to 85 black bears; once that mark is reached, the hunt’s called off.
Bear Project Leader Harry Spiker told the Associated Press that tweeting [...] -
Power in numbers
Let’s face it, no matter how “green” you are, if you don’t have the green to pay for solar panels, they’re out of the question.
A California group, recognizing the prohibitive cost of the panels, thought it might be worthwhile to round up some like-minded neighbors to get a group discount. They formed a company, One [...] -
Create your own Walden Pond in Baltimore
“Project Budburst” may sound like a hokey name for an action flick, but it’s a serious undertaking to combat climate change - and you can help.
The one-year-old project recently added Baltimore to its network of cities where citizen scientists are helping to document their observations of plant phenophases - their major life cycle changes. Scientists [...] -
New hybrid buses eco-friendly but expensive
Gov. Martin O’Malley and other state officials unveiled a new hybrid bus Friday afternoon at the Motor Trend International Auto Show in Baltimore, saying it was the first step toward the state’s goal of running 600 hybrid MTA buses by 2014.
That would put the Maryland Transportation Authority three-quarters of the way toward its goal of [...] -
BBC special looks at Maryland’s environment
Maryland’s fight for cleaner air is getting some love from the BBC.
BBC World News America’s Katty Kay — you may know her from regular appearances on Meet the Press and The Chris Matthews Show — traveled from D.C. to Maryland’s James Island with environmental scientist Court Stevenson to get a look at the problems plaguing [...] -
Scuppies and Dinkpops in Paradise
Yesterday, I was chatting with my editor about the current appeal in our culture today of all things “green” — and we were trying to put our finger on the correct term for a particular type that exists in most cities across the country.
You’ve noticed them: late 20s to early 30s, working as architects or [...] -
Zipping around
Goucher College has teamed up with Zipcars to offer students and others on the college’s Baltimore campus round-the-clock access to two Honda Civic Hybrids.
As a recent Goucher grad, I was proud to see the school continue on the road to going green. When I was a student, our environment group installed a solar panel [...] -
Doe’nt Go There!
The Baltimore City Department of Public Works issued a news release that took me by surprise, at least through my cursory glance at the headline, which said “COMMUNITY DEER MEETING.”
I’ve heard rumors that deer sometimes wander into the wooded areas of the city (one report of a deer in Guilford, which I frankly don’t believe). [...] -
University system gets a nod from Sierra Club
None of Maryland’s colleges and universities made the Sierra Club’s list of “Cool Schools” – recognizing the higher ed institutions with the best environmental initiatives – but one university system did get a nod in Sierra magazine’s “bright ideas” section:
“Thanks to a coalition of students, all 15 institutions in the University System of Maryland are [...] -
Ye Olde Roland Park Country Club
The lordly New York Times has caught wind of the debate in Roland Park over the sale of 17 acres of open space belonging to the Roland Park Country Club to Keswick Multi-Care Center, a company that wants to build a 300-unit eldercare facility with a 400-space parking garage underneath it.
Many Roland Park residents are [...]