Blue Water Baltimore is honoring Earth Day all week long with an array of activities focusing on green practices. There are plenty of opportunities to get involved and provide a direct environmental impact in Baltimore. Go Green for Earth Day Tuesday, April 21 Sustainability Annual Town Hall from 6 pm to 8 pm Join us and other city…
Through the Blue Water Congregations program, Blue Water Baltimore and Interfaith Partners of the Chesapeake are working with places of worship to implement projects on their grounds to help improve the health of our local waterways. Stormwater projects such as hardscape removal, pervious pavement, rain gardens, and rainwater harvesting with cisterns or rain barrels decrease…
In my recent blog about pruning I discussed why we prune trees and the best time to prune them. This week, we will provide you with four easy-to-follow steps on how to prune young trees as well as tips to make the pruning process as painless as possible for you and your trees. Step 1: Assess…
Rain barrels are an easy way for you to harness stormwater, lower your water bill, and reduce pollution in our streams. And, if you build your own rain barrel at one of our workshops this spring it’s an economical way to help your local watershed. The workshop registration is just $65 per barrel, and each workshop lasts…
To help you learn how to care for the trees at your home or on your street, we are announcing a series of all-new tree pruning workshops. These free events will teach you what you need to know, and enable you to help Blue Water Baltimore maintain some of the several thousand trees we have planted over the last…
Are you anxious to get the New Year off to a good start? Ready to turn over a new leaf, see new things, and be more active in 2015? There may be no better way than with a First Day Hike. For the past several years, America’s state parks have been organizing hikes on New…
In mid-November, 260 volunteers joined staff from Blue Water Baltimore and Gunpowder Valley Conservancy to remove trash from local streams during the annual Better Waterways Fall Cleanup. At ten cleanup sites, seven in Baltimore City and three in Baltimore County, our amazing volunteers who cleaned up 10,000 pounds of trash! Together we also worked to…
This fall, the Baltimore City Council will be considering a bill that will place a 5-cent fee on disposable plastic and paper bags. Anyone who lives in Baltimore knows that litter is a serious problem. One of the most prominent type of trash seen in our neighborhoods, trees, and floating in the Baltimore Harbor, is…
We’re coming up on workshop season, which means it’s time to consider attending one of our Fall rain barrel workshops on either Sunday, September 7 or Sunday, October 5. Join Blue Water Baltimore and build your own rain barrel to take home. With a considerable discount off the standard price, our workshops are community events to help…
Just one week ago, people across Baltimore rallied to the cause of generosity. Tuesday, December 3rd was #GivingTuesday – a day set aside in the spirit of Black Friday and Cyber Monday but for giving as good as you get. At the front of the movement in Baltimore was GiveCorps, a Charles Village-based startup. Their…