One of the Havre de Grace Green Team’s primary passions is continuing education in the responsible use of our natural resources, both locally and abroad. The Green Team will always seek to provide the how, what, why and where to find facts and information on green initiatives in our fair city of Havre de Grace, Harford County, Maryland, USA.
Reflection: A Walk with Water — Environmental Documentary for January! See you Thursday January 19,2023 at 7 pm–Now at the Havre de Grace Opera House!
Reflection: A Walk with Water is the next documentary in the Green Team’s Environmental Film Series. It chronicles a 200 mile walk along the Los Angeles River and explores the disruption of the water cycle caused by climate change. The film investigates themes visited in our two earlier films this year: Regenerative agriculture, sustainable water use and ecological healing, Please join us at the beautiful and comfortable Opera House in Historic Havre de Grace.
Our environment is complex and changing topic that affects us all. Watching quality documentaries and reading are one avenue to better understanding our beautiful but threatened home. Thanks BGE for supporting our film and book series. Save the date, 2/15/23 at 7 pm for our “Books and Bites” discussion of Elizabeth Kolbert’s book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, at Coakley’s Pub in Historic Havre de Grace
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Parade Planning! Independence Parade Sunday July 4th!
We need you to make paper pollinators for the Independence Day Parade!
Want a fun activity and help prepare paper pollinators for the 4th of July Parade? The Havre de Grace Green Team invites you to construct some birds, butterflies, hummingbirds, bats, and bees for decorating an e-car masquerading as a giant bee! The paper pollinators will “fly,” tethered to the e-car with light, springy wire. We need lots and lots of them!
Our parade entry is sponsored by the Havre de Grace Green Team, the Havre de Grace Maritime Museum and Harford County Climate Action. Previously we have won first prize in the non-profit, walking group category. We want to win again this year!
Please join us by making paper pollinators and walking in the parade, too.
Here are instructions in PDF for making birds, bees, hummingbirds and bats for the parade. Remember they should be light and about 8 inches in size. Have your own ideas for making these paper pollinators especially with reused materials? Go for it!
Remember while we always think bees when talking about pollinators there are many other creatures that provide pollination so we humans have good food to eat. Here are some: bees, moths, flies, bats, butterflies, birds, beetles, wasps, birds, and even some small mammals like flying foxes!
Please just send the Green Team a note at hdggreenteam@gmail.com so we can tell you where and when to drop off your paper pollinators and the parade information if you plan to march Sunday afternoon, July 4.
Remember Havre de Grace is a Bee City! You can help bring back the pollinators! Many thanks to you!
Thanks to Lynn Galloro for the helpful instructions.
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Environmental Racism
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Food as Medicine: Preventing and Treating the Most Common Diseases with Diet
Dr. Greger has scoured the world’s scholarly literature on clinical nutrition and developed this new presentation based on the latest in cutting-edge research exploring the role diet may play in preventing, arresting, and even reversing some of our leading causes of death and disability.
COWSPIRACY
The Sustainability Secret is a groundbreaking feature-length environmental documentary following an intrepid filmmaker as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today – and investigates why the world’s leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it.
Blue Zones
A mission to help people Live Longer, Better. Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest
Years of Living Dangerously
It’s the biggest story of our time. Hollywood’s brightest stars and today’s most respected journalists explore the issues of climate change and bring you intimate accounts of triumph and tragedy. YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY takes you directly to the heart of the matter in this awe-inspiring and cinematic documentary series event from Executive Producers James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Plasticized
Plasticized is an intimate account of a first-hand journey aboard the Sea Dragon with the 5 Gyres Institute on the very first scientific expedition, focused on plastic waste, through the center of the South Atlantic Ocean. An eye-opening story about the institute’s global mission to study the effects, reality, and scale of plastic pollution around the world.