We here are Urban Discoveries Living are an environmentally conscious bunch. We recycle, we want a Prius, we cry over pictures of iceberg-stranded polar bears. But for all of our liberal intentions and green guilt (is that a phrase? Can we make it one?), we’re mostly paying lip service, we’re not really doing anything.
So we’re thankful for events and organizations like Baltimore Green Works, formerly Baltimore Green Week; they changed their name because, hey, there are 52 weeks we should be green a year, not just one. This week, April 18 – 25, is the official Baltimore Green Week. The events kicked off at Druid Hill Park on Saturday with Ecofest and the Baltimore Free Store, like we told you about on Friday. But there’s more than just Ecofest happening; there’s a whole week of events. We didn’t have space to list them all, but below are some highlights.
Climate Change Day, April 21st (today!), features a four-member panel discussion on what coping with climate change means locally. Held at Goucher College in the Kelly Lecture Hall, Reception from 6 – 7 p.m., panel discussion from 7 – 9 p.m.
Sustainable Food Day, April 22nd (tomorrow!), features the fearsome team-up of BGW and TreeBaltimore working to increase tree canopy in Baltimore. Druid Hill Park, 3:30 p.m., lunch provided by Chipotle. Talks by local farmers about food labeling, cooking demonstrations, and an evening discussion on vegetarianism are all also on the schedule.
Other upcoming BGW events include a Frederick Law Olmstead legacy tour in Roland Park, a green jobs panel, a meet and greet with the director of the Baltimore Green Map (we discussed the map here a few weeks ago), “Go Green Baltimore, Southeast Green Festival” at Southeast Anchor Library, and, finally, Gunpowder Falls State Park’s Second Annual Polar Fair on Saturday. So enjoy this beautiful April weather, and start doing something to keep the environment healthy instead of just saying you will.
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Green is great, but clean is better. I’ve never seen trash in the streets anywhere like there is in Baltimore. Dog crap litters the sidewalks and cigarettes carpet the ground around every bar.
Certainly can’t argue with you about that…. why do you think it is that Baltimore is so much dirtier than many other cities of comparable size? (It’s not just all in our imagination, right?) And how do we go about getting things fixed?
…the eternal questions. But let us know if you have any ideas, short of moving — we love the city, hate the trash….