I have just attended the annual convention of the Maryland Municipal League at the Convention Center here in Ocean City. There were rain storms yesterday that felt like monsoons and left the streets with at least six inches of standing water. Once inside the convention center, however, all was dry and comfortable. There were many municipalities from around the state represented here, as well as a whole host of commercial enterprises all looking for ways to connect to the municipalities' purchasing managers. You can't believe the amount of freebies; folks were walking about with large, reusable bags filled with stuff.
I was attending the annual convention as a representative of Chestertown's Green Team, giving out lots of information about the efforts made by Chestertown's government and citizens of the town to move toward a more sustainable future (see the newsletter below). I was also handing out copies of a Community Greening Toolkit, which gives examples of the kinds of projects undertaken in Chestertown, and offers resources for other municipalities to begin their own green projects without having to reinvent the wheel, as it were. Click on the link for more information.
If you have any greening tips you would like posted to the Chestertown Goes Green web site, send me an email and I'll see what can be done.
Briggs Cunningham is the Climate Action Coordinator at the Center for Environment & Society, and can be contacted here.
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