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Wednesday May 4th Doors Open at 6:00pm Film starts at 7:00pm St. Margaret’s Fellowship Hall 1601 Pleasant Plains Road Annapolis, Maryland Parking Available FREE Admission, Donations at the door much appreciated. Click here to RSVP for event The Alliance in partnership with the Bay Journal are pleased to host the Annapolis area’s FIRST showing of Beautiful Swimmers …
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The Maryland Water Quality Trading Advisory Committee held its first meeting in January 2016. The Alliance’s Executive Director Al Todd serves on this advisory group formed to help Maryland develop a nutrient trading and offsets policy to accelerate the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay while reducing costs to local governments and citizens. Trading and the …
Businesses can have a big impact on water quality and public health. Here, employees pick up trash during Project Clean Stream. Photo courtesy: Bill&Debbie/flickr Membership and Sponsorship Now Open to All in Chesapeake Region’s Business Community Read full press release: Alliance Launches New Businesses for the Bay Partnership (.pdf) (Annapolis, MD – February 3, 2016) …
Trees for Sacred Places partnership helps faith communities take environmental action Church members planting at All Saints Lutheran Church (January 19, 2016- Annapolis, MD) The Trees for Sacred Places Program, a partnership between the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay (Alliance) and Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake (IPC), is a unique program that brings restoration, community …
The Greening Virginia’s Capitol project, funded by National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, is complete! Several low impact development practices have been installed to help filter and reduce stormwater runoff, thus reducing the amount of pollutants that are reaching the James River. To celebrate the project completion, we held a media tour on August 3rd. Watch …
This past fall, we launched a campaign to encourage people like you to take small steps to reduce the impact their yards and houses have on local waterways. Through an online contest we chose two properties to “crash” and install Bay-friendly landscaping. We had a great time getting our hands dirty! At one house, we …
[one_full ][title content_ ]Join us this Spring! Sign up to Volunteer! The Alliance and Moms Organic Market volunteers in 2015. Local streams and woodlands receive a clean start every spring as thousands of volunteers come out for Project Clean Stream, one of the largest cleanup events in the Chesapeake Bay region. Every year, the Project Clean Stream …
The Alliance hosted the 2015 Chesapeake Business Forum on November 10, 2015 at the Bond Street Wharf Building in Baltimore, Maryland. The Forum brought together business leaders, from organizations both large and small, to network and learn more about environmental sustainability goals, challenges and successes, identify needs, develop sustainable solutions, and kickoff the Businesses for …
Forests are the best land use for reducing excessive sediment and nutrient inputs into the creeks, streams, and rivers that flow into the Chesapeake Bay. Trees prevent severe soil erosion, they trap and take up nutrient pollution before it reaches waterways, and through their shade and inputs of leaves, stems, and other biomass, trees help …
Lori Keenan and her family purchased their 234 acre farm in 1999. At the time, the family sought an escape from their residence in the middle of the bustling Washington, D.C. area. They found relief in the foothills of the Blue Ridge in nearby rural Virginia. Their family retreat, Ballina farm, quickly evolved from just …
