Sustainability : Featured Stories

Some Charm City residents are giving new meaning to the words Baltimore beehive. They are keeping bees in their backyard so their garden bears more fruit and they get to tap into their inner bad-boy. And no, they don't seem too worried about getting stung. 

You go to farmers' markets and dine at earthy farm-to-table restaurants. But what about your flowers? Local Color Flowers' Ellen Frost wants you to think about where your flowers come from. 

Since it was founded four years ago, Hamilton Crop Circle has become a cornerstone of its Northeast Baltimore community. It now supplies vegetables to the Chameleon Café, Wine Market, the Brewer’s Art and other restaurants throughout the city. 

Seawall Development has turned a vacant building in Remington into a thriving apartment and office complex for teachers and nonprofits. It is on the verge of completing a similar redevelopment in Hampden. Now, the Baltimore developer is about to take its socially responsible mission to other cities.

You can call the world your home. You can care about more than one place and learn lessons that apply globally from highly localized, community-oriented action. Open Society Institute-Baltimore operates with the goal of letting underserved communities know that they matter. Today, OSI-Baltimore announces its 14^th class of Community Fellows.

Though it sits just outside the northwest corner of the Beltway, Irvine Nature Center could be a different world -- one in which the city that is in reality only a few miles away might as well not exist at all. Bmore's Renee Libby Beck goes behind the scenes at Irvine to discover what it has to offer and find out how it's weathering difficult economic times.

Do you know where your food came from? Not just where you bought it, of course, but where it really came from? If you want to, you can thanks to the Baltimore Food Co-op, a brand-new Remington venture that aims to bring responsible, sustainable food retailing to Charm City.