Green Business Directory

This blog was writ­ten by Julie Napoli­tano, intern with The Office of Envi­ron­men­tal Sus­tain­abil­ity and stu­dent at UMD study­ing Envi­ron­men­tal Science-Natural Resource Man­age­ment. Thank you Julie! In the mood to enjoy some of the beau­ti­ful weather we had last week, I decided to take my son for a walk around Font Hill wet­land park near our [more…]

This blog was writ­ten by the Howard County Recy­cling Divi­sion – Thank you! Amer­ica Recy­cles Day is being cel­e­brated this year on Mon­day, Novem­ber 15th.  Since 1997, com­mu­ni­ties across the coun­try have come together to cel­e­brate Amer­ica Recy­cles Day. More than a cel­e­bra­tion, Amer­ica Recy­cles Day is the only nation­ally rec­og­nized day ded­i­cated to the pro­mo­tion [more…]

This blog entry is from Elissa Rei­neck – I’m a part-time Howard County employee and one thing I do is orga­nize com­mu­nity cleanup events.  Awhile ago, I was check­ing out the Sav­age Mill Trail because the area has been hav­ing some trash and other issues lately, and I had been con­tacted about doing a com­mu­nity [more…]

Howard County’s Bureau of Envi­ron­men­tal Ser­vices is offer­ing some great oppor­tu­ni­ties to de-clutter and get rid of some stuff before the hol­i­days and cold weather are upon us: Paper Shred­ding — So many bills and credit card offers come in the mail with our per­sonal infor­ma­tion on them.  If you would like to have them shred­ded [more…]

This blog post is from Christo­pher Rus­sell, Energy Man­ager. If you are moti­vated to reduce energy costs, the sequence of your actions makes a dif­fer­ence. To put it all in per­spec­tive, the aver­age house­hold spends about $2,000 to $2,500 per year on energy uses, exclud­ing vehi­cles.  You have three basic energy cost reduc­tion oppor­tu­ni­ties: 1.       [more…]

OK – I am not sug­gest­ing that all the hol­i­day lights on your house actu­ally be the color green.  That would just be weird.  But, at my house we’ve been grad­u­ally con­vert­ing over to the LED strings of lights and it’s going really well so far.  We’ve got snowflake ici­cle ones, color strings, and those [more…]

Megan L. Reuwer is an attor­ney and United States Green Build­ing Coun­cil LEED (Lead­er­ship in Energy and Envi­ron­men­tal Design) accred­ited pro­fes­sional. As a LEED AP, she pos­sesses the knowl­edge to help clients eval­u­ate the require­ments and ben­e­fits of sus­tain­able build­ing prac­tices and coun­sel own­ers, con­struc­tion con­sul­tants, and oth­ers involved in the devel­op­ment, con­struc­tion, and financ­ing [more…]