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2007 Chesapeake Bay Report Card.

Trash Bash 2008 -- Support Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper

Stormwater Best Management Practices -- Definitions and Effectiveness -- December 4th

Wetland Deliniation Training -- Environmental Concern in St. Michael’s, MD -- November 10-14th

Maryland Department of Planning -- Smart Growth Listening Sessions

http://www.mdp.state.md.us/listeningsessions.htm

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Prince Georges County  
Bladensburg High School
4200 57th Avenue
Bladensburg, Maryland 20710

Tuesday, October 28, 2008
 Harford and Cecil Counties
Aberdeen High School
251 Paradise Road
Aberdeen, Maryland 2101-2399

Unable to attend? Take the survey!

You can help chart the future of growth in Maryland’s communities. The Maryland Department of Planning (MDP) and the Task Force on the Future for Growth and Development in Maryland invite you to participate in a survey informing their work on recommendations and strategies for sustainable growth in the State.

Maryland Growth Forums

Centreville Growth Forum RESCHEDULED
Thursday, October 23

Same time & location
7:00-8:30 p.m.

Queen Anne's Co. Public Library, Centreville Branch
121 S. Commerce St., Centreville, MD

(If you have already RSVPd for the previous date, please re-confirm your attendance for the new date.)

NOTE: Salisbury Growth Forum (unchanged)

Tuesday, October 14

7:00-8:30 p.m.

Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore

1324 Belmont Ave, Salisbury, MD

(Details here again...for your reference.)

The 1000 Friends of Maryland, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Environment Maryland, MD League of Conservation Voters, and MD Watershed Network invite you and other community leaders to a lively discussion on Maryland's growth policies and how they can be improved. These forums are intended to build on the State's (MDP's) recent listening sessions and to provide an opportunity to talk about specific ways to move forward.

We anticipate that during the 2009 General Assembly Session there will be significant growth legislation to improve Smart Growth policies, the local comprehensive planning process, and the state planning process. Conservation and environmental groups from across the state are beginning to develop a legislative package and request and welcome your input.

Please join us to discuss ideas and strategies on how to improve growth management in Maryland, conserve our natural resources, reduce air and water pollution, and create better places to live and work.

Please RSVP to:

Margaret Enloe - menloe@cbf.org

410-543-1999 x502

Please forward to other interested parties! All perspectives welcome!

Carbon Sequestration on Farms & Forest Lands -- October 21, 2008 -- University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative -- rggi.org -- Maryland participated in first CO2 Emissions Auction

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is the first mandatory, market-based effort in the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states will cap and then reduce CO2 emissions from the power sector 10% by 2018.

Maryland Commission on Climate Change -- Action Plan

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