Public Art Across America Grants
Deadlines:
Feb. 12, 2021; May 12, 2021
Montgomery County Green Bank
Montgomery County Energy Efficiency Program
Prince George's County Sustainable Energy grants
Prince George's County Green Energy Loan program
Maryland Urban & Community Forestry Grants
(Maryland DNR)
Deadline: semi-annual
Charles County Forestry Grant Program (Chesapeake Bay Trust)
Deadline: Rolling
Community Engagement & Restoration Mini-grants (Chesapeake Bay Trust)
Deadline: Rolling
Prince Georges County Raincheck Rebate (Chesapeake Bay Trust)
Deadline: Rolling
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EVENT AND WEBINAR CALENDAR |
Naturally Latino Conference
Dates: Dec. 2-4
MAEOE Annual Conference: Climate, Nature, People & Education- It's All Connected!
Location: Baltimore
Dates: February 4-7
Maryland Ornithological Society
Dates: May 14-16
Location: Cumberland
Virtual - MD Association of Floodplain and Stormwater Managers
Dates: June 17-18
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Greenbelt receives sustainability certification from Sustainable Maryland
BYD to Introduce the First Electric Battery Refuse Truck to Maryland (City of Hyattsville)
Mount Airy awarded re-certification as a Sustainable Maryland community
More (including video clip)
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SM STUDENT VOLUNTEERS CREATE MORE SUSTAINABILITY RESOURCES WEBPAGES FOR MUNICIPALITIES |
UMD undergrad student volunteers have recently completed or are working on new Sustainability Resources webpages for several municipalities, including Glen Echo, Cottage City, North Chevy Chase, and Boonsboro. Students act as consultants for the projects, meeting virtually with Green Teams and municipal staff to gather information for the pages. They also learn website content management and webpage designs skills, and have a tangible product to put on their resumes at the end of the project. Many thanks to this semester's SM student volunteers: Caroline Manzo, Kevin Krawczyk, Shane Querubin, and Mikaela Greenwald.
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INCORPORATING JUSTICE, EQUITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION |
This fall EFC staff engaged in deep discussions on justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI) issues in our personal lives, within our own organization, and with the communities we work with across Maryland and the mid-Atlantic. Staff members have been working through the Urban Sustainability Directors Network's Equity Foundations Training, a holistic curriculum of webinars, videos, and worksheets designed to help apply an equity lens to local government sustainability efforts.
Staff members are also utilizing the GARE Racial Equity Toolkit to see how EFC and our MOST and SM programs can address these issues directly in our work with communities. This month staff completed Module 4 - Using Racial Equity Tools, which focuses on how municipalities can adopt a racial equity tool to better address inequities in their daily operations and decision-making.
Using a racial equity tool process, the SM program will be reviewing each of our Actions and embedding questions to help towns to look at and address JEDI issues when undertaking projects, planning events, and installing infrastructure. While we were unable to convene our traditional fall SM Leadership Training, SM is still committed to hosting our next Leadership Training workshop on issues of JEDI sometime in Spring 2021. Stay tuned...
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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY EMBARKS ON NEW CLIMATE ACTION PLANNING PROCESS |
The Prince George's County Climate Action Commission has embarked on the process of creating a Climate Action Plan for the County. The first public meeting to outline this process, which aims to build resilience to regional climate change impacts and to set climate stabilization goals, was held earlier this month. While regional in nature, this plan will benefit from the input of municipal elected officials and staff, Green Teams and engaged residents. The role of local governments in setting goals, implementing policy and leading residents and businesses by example, cannot be overestimated. The SM team will provide periodic updates and help facilitate public engagement on this crucial step towards meaningful local action in solving the climate crisis.
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"We have to re-establish American leadership globally on climate change, and re-establishing global leadership is going to require getting our house in order domestically."
-Ernest Moniz, former Secretary of Energy and climate adviser to President-elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
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