Money For Trees From BGE
BGE is trimming and removing thousands of trees in our neighborhoods to protect their electrical wires from damage and destruction. Whatever you... Read More
Urbanite Poster Competition
Friends, last May the Urbanite invited local organizations to submit poster proposals (graphics and 500 words) to compete for their Healthy Food... Read More
Incredible Edible Movement
Pam Warhurst offers up a compelling vision of how we can make the under-utilized and wasted spaces around our homes, businesses and... Read More
Trees, Wires and Why We Can’t Pit Energy Against Environment Anymore
My op-ed on the need to re-think above-ground wires running from central power stations to individual houses as the best way to... Read More
Age-Old Gardens
This blog was created by BOP Intern Morgan Mullaney. The Baltimore Orchard Project picked up a beautiful book yesterday at the historic... Read More
The Beams in our Cathedrals
The story is told of the massive oak beams in the ceiling of College Hall at New College, Oxford. New College was... Read More
Treasures in Waverly
by BOP Intern Sebastian Lim Baltimore City, on the surface, seems to be a congregation of expansive businesses, busy people, and a... Read More
Natural Cities
In his 2011 book, Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning, Timothy Beatley (he teaches about sustainable communities at the... Read More
89 Orchards in Baltimore City 100 years ago
BOP Summer Intern Elena Makansi tells of her remarkable discovery: This past Thursday I got to feel like a true historian: buried... Read More
Openings for Fruit Trees
Well, it is happening. BGE, in their understandable desire to keep us safe from extensive power outages caused by unstable, over-grown trees... Read More