Saving the Environment One Yard at a Time

April 14, 2012 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. www.hcgreenfest.org

Free Admission & GiveAwAys

Sierra Club Sponsored Tree Planting • Outdoor Reptile Search Live Reptiles & Birds • Rain Barrel & Gardening Workshops • Green Vendors Outdoor Nature Play Space • Document Shredding & Electronics Recycling Goodwill Collection Truck • Nike ReUse-A-Shoe Collection Bikes for the World Bike Collection • Free Compost Bins & Workshop Schedule of Events A message from the County Executive Speakers Workshops CL 156 CL 153 CL 155 Outdoors for $25 and $35. Donating 100% of the costs to a local watershed organization. Cut-A-Thon local Aveda Concepts Salon - providing haircuts - Salon Marielle, Ellicott City’s Rain Barrel Workshop Thank you... - Learn how to build and 10:00 use a rainbarrel for joining us at Howard County’s fifth annual GreenFest. I hope you Light Pollution in Your will enjoy the day and take away Neighborhood - Howard 10:30 Astronomical League some practical tips that can be incorporated into your work, home Chickens in Your Bay-Wise Planting in Your *Garlic Mustard Pull and leisure. I appreciate your sup- 11:00 Yard - Cathy Yard - Learn to select Help rid the campus of this Hudson plants to benefit the Bay exotic plant invader port and all you are doing to make - Howard County Master Howard County a true model green Stop Stream Ero- Gardeners 11:30 sion in Your Yard community. - Mark Richmond, HoCo DPW I also want to thank the Departments of Recreation & Natural Weed Rain Barrel Workshop Tree Planting - Sponsored Parks, Planning & Zoning and Public Works for organizing 12:00 Control in Your - Learn how to build and by the Sierra Club - Join Yard - Lauren’s use a rainbarrel in and help plant a habi- this event, the vendors and presenters, and especially Garden Service tat buffer, meet at the pond behind Galleria the sponsors and volunteers who helped make Green- Guerilla Garden- Food Scrap Compost and Fest possible. Happy Earth Month! 12:30 ing in your Neigh- Recycling Workshop - borhood - Brian What can and cannot be Slagle put in your curbside bins Soil Testing and Nature Play Spaces *Watershed Walk - 1:00 Fertilizing Your Yard Workshop - Robinson Columbia Association -John McCoy, CA Foundation Ken Ulman Stormwater in 1:30 Your Yard - Jim Caldwell, HoCo OES Thank you to our sponsors: Backyard Beekeeping *Reptile & Amphibian Composting in Survey Help out with the 5 2:00 Your Yard - Master - Woody Medina, HoCo Aero Mist Mom’s Organic Market Beekeepers Association year reptile & amphibian Gardener Susan survey underway state-wide AgroLawn, Inc. NaturaLawn of America Levi-Goerlich *Watershed Walk Allen & Shariff Engineering Renewal by Andersen 2:30 Bob Marietta

Aurora Energy, Inc. Repax, Inc. Bath Fitter Salon Marielle Birnbaum Interpreting Services Solar City Classroom CL 138 Children’s Reptile and Amphibian Activity 2 - 3 pm Central Regional Tran- Straughan Environmental, Inc. sit/TRIP Resource Parking Lot Summit Insulation Document shredding and electronics recycling 10 am - 2 pm Clean Currents TerraLogos Energy Group GoodWill collection Truck 10 am - 4pm Climate Change Initiative of The James and Anne Robinson Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Collection Truck 10 am- 4 pm Howard County Foundation Nike ReUse-A-Shoe Collection 10 am - 4 pm Lauren’s Garden Service The Marketing Showcase Quad Outdoor Nature Play Space for Children of all Ages 10 am - 4 pm Master Gardeners Howard You’ve Got Maids County Viewing of the Sun through a Telescope Display 10 am - 4 pm Solar Tracker Display 10 am - 4 pm *Denotes meet on the Quad outside the Galleria. First Floor Burrill Galleria

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Second Floor Burrill Galleria Groups and Locations Groups and Locations Advanced Technology & Global Baskets, LLC 117,116 Howard County Recycling Potomac - Patuxent Chapter Research Corp. 126 Green Building Institute Division 239,240 Trout Unlimited 308 Aero Mist 130,131 & Youth Environmental Coalition 121 Howard County Stormwater Power Home Remodeling Group 8 AgroLawn, Inc. 103,104 Greenberries Company 112 Division 229 Renewal by Andersen 223 Allen & Shariff Engineering 10 Happy Family Brands 118 Howard Soil Conservation District 109 Repax, Inc. 135 Aurora Energy, Inc. 236 Health & Environmental Answers 127 Lancaster Farm Fresh Co-op/ 213 Sandy Spring CSA 32 Metropolitan Council 36 Howard Astronomical League 107 Salon Marielle Room CL 155 Lauren’s Garden Service 124 Bath Fitter 133 Howard Commuter Solutions 212 Shiner Solar 115 League of Women Voters, Berry Best Moms 136 Howard County Beekeepers Sierra Club 125 Environmental Committee 128 Birnbaum Interpreting Services 13 Association, Inc. 14 Smart Home Services 235 Little Ned Stories 34 Bowling Green Farm Quad Howard County Bird Club 305 Solar City 225, 226 Live Green DC 24 British American Auto Care, Inc. 20, 21 Howard County Conservancy 29 Summit Insulation 114 Lucy and Amelia, LLC 105 Center for Watershed Protection - Howard County Children’s Sustainable Growth, LLC 123 Nature Table 306, 307 Maid Brigade 232 Howard County Watershed Sustainable Solutions, LLC 19 Stewards Academy 106 Howard County Economic Master Gardeners of Howard County 26,27 SwitchItGreen, LLC 219 Central Maryland Regional Development Authority, TerraLogos Energy Group 15,16 Transit/TRIP Resource 132 Ag. Marketing 101 Mid-Atlantic Turtle and Tortoise Society, Inc. 301, 302, 303 The Breadery 111 Chesapeake Bay Environmental Howard County Forest Center 310 Conservancy District Board 221 MD Biological Stream The James and Anne Robinson Survey/MD DNR 17 Foundation 108 Chesapeake Bay Foundation 7 Howard County Green Business Council 222 Medomak Camp for Families The Marketing Showcase 220 Clean Currents 28 Howard County Library System 214 & Retreat Center 102 The Paper Pear 224 Climate Change Initiative Middle Patuxent of Howard County 23 Howard County Office TLV Tree Farm Quad of Consumer Affairs 122 Environmental Area 234 Columbia Association 216 Transition Howard County 218 Howard County Office Mom’s Organic Market 230, 231 Complete Home Solutions, LLC 110 Green Building of Environmental Sustainability 233 My Sweets and More 208, 209, 210 Council HCC Student Group 11 Conscious Corner (Roots, Howard County Public NaturaLawn of America 134 Bark, Nest, and Great Sage) 217 Veteran Compost 35 School System 30,31 NutriGrown 211 Earth Forum of Howard County 33 Watershed Advisory Howard County Public Works Oseh Shalom 18 Committee (CA) 215 Ecobeco 25 - Utilities 227 12 You’ve Got Maids 237, 238 Friends of Patapsco Valley Howard County Herp Atlas 228 & Heritage Greenway, Inc. 129 Pendeza Jewelry Creations 22 Howard County Rec & Parks, Friends of Whipps Cemetery Natural Resources 244, 243, 242 & Memorial Gardens, Inc. 120

Sponsors are noted in bold. Sponsors are noted in bold.