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groSo­lar is North America’s pre­mier dis­trib­u­tor, installer and inte­gra­tor of solar energy solu­tions for res­i­den­tial and com­mer­cial instal­la­tions. Founded in 1998, groSo­lar is the largest 100 per­cent U.S.-owned dis­trib­u­tor in the solar indus­try, and is the fourth-largest instal­la­tion com­pany in North Amer­ica. The com­pany has offices and ware­houses across the US, dis­trib­ut­ing solar elec­tric and [more…]

This past Tues­day, the League of Women Vot­ers, the Envi­ron­men­tal Sus­tain­abil­ity Board and the Howard County Cit­i­zens Asso­ci­a­tion held a forum on storm water.  The recent floods from Trop­i­cal Storm Lee high­lighted to the com­mu­nity what many of us have known for quite some time:  how we man­age and con­trol our stormwa­ter is a seri­ous [more…]

This post will likely end up a bit wonkier than our usual posts but I thought it might be worth­while to explain exactly what the Office of Envi­ron­men­tal Sus­tain­abil­ity is and tell its “ori­gin story”.  In the early months of 2007 newly elected County Exec­u­tive Ulman put together a Com­mis­sion on the Envi­ron­ment and Sus­tain­abil­ity [more…]

Almost every home has some type of energy waste – energy that is being used when there are ways to pre­vent it.  Whether the home­owner has unin­su­lated pipes or is using flu­o­res­cent light bulbs, the energy waste adds up, and that costs you — the res­i­dent — real cash.  You may be think­ing to your­self that your [more…]