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Building Blocks

One House at a Time has assisted in the transfer of more than three-hundred derelict properties, including forty-nine this past year.

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Fecal Matters

Septic tanks send pollutants into the ground that find their way into waterways and drinking water.

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Owning Your Stormwater

The Watershed Stewards Academy was launched in 2009 as a partnership between the county's Arlington Echo Outdoor Education Center and the Anne Arundel Department of Public Works.

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Transportation

Dude, Where's Your Car?

Even though the U.S. lags way behind other developed countries on public transit, American teenagers are increasingly losing interest in driving too.

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For the Birds

Mistletoe contains a systemic poison that can be fatal to people and pets. But cedar waxwings and other songbirds, love mistletoe berries.

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Holiday Tree, My Holiday Tree

Ground-level troubles never show up campaign debates. They are troubles rooted in a climate off-balance, in unchecked power plant emissions and ecosystems gone haywire: actual life issues many lawmakers want to keep under the surface, while voters fuss over superficialities.

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Staff Report

Real Food, Fast

In 2012, Real Food Farm will try to expand its mobile market program into more neighborhoods with help from a Farmers Market Promotion Program grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Environment

The Greening of Annapolis

Maryland's capital city has started a program to encourage businesses and homeowners to reduce their pollution, and it’s catching on. Other cities are trying similar programs.

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Calling All Oysters

For the last century and a half, Chesapeake Bay oysters have yielded huge harvests and inspired debates, disputes and even open combat. But exactly how many oysters are in what Native Americans called the Great Shellfish Bay?

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