Dru Schmidt-Perkins
Catherine Pancake
Dru Schmidt-Perkins has more than twenty-eight years of experience on a broad range of energy, growth, and environmental issues. In 1998, she became the first executive director of 1000 Friends of Maryland, a nonprofit advocacy group. Before joining 1000 Friends, she was the Maryland State and Chesapeake Director of Clean Water Action for more than nine years.
Catherine Pancake is an artist and cultural worker who has co-founded such Baltimore-based radical arts groups as the High Zero Foundation and the Transmodern Festival. Her films include the 2006 documentary Black Diamonds, about mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. Catherine's experimental sound work has been published by several experimental record labels.
photo by La Kaye Mbah
Be-more Productive Baltimore
Be-more Productive Baltimore encourages Baltimore residents to take a second look at community and neighborhood spaces and re-think possibilities for green productivity. The project not only makes suggestions, but also provides a downloadable resource guide, The Neighborhood Diagnostic Tool, to help you find the ideas, people, and resources you need to Be-more Productive!
Food
Most urban neighborhoods can produce food that will stretch a family's budget and bring in wonderful fresh ingredients. Even a front stoop can host a productive container garden, and the front porch can be festooned with hanging vegetable and herb plants. The Neighborhood Diagnostic Tool will help you look at your neighborhood from a plant's eye and see where you and your neighbors can grow your family food.
