Sustainability

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Green is the word on everyone's lips. Alternative heating oil, green spaces, hybrid buses and green buildings have already come to Baltimore and advocates of sustainability are working hard to make Baltimore an example other metropolitan areas in the country can follow. TerraLogos is helping to lead the way to a more environmentally-friendly city with its Sustainable Design Consulting, Green Architecture and Planning, Home Energy Inspections and Green Home Improvement.

Sustainability Features

Slow and steady wins the race for Baltimore area bike retailer

Raymond Bolger Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Store owners know how tough it is to beat the chains that undercut them. But one Baltimore area bike retailer has come out on top since it opened 35 years ago. Race Pace Bicycles now operates five stores and brings in between $8 million and $10 million in sales.

Slideshow: Toast to the Drink Local Wine Conference in Baltimore

Steve Ruark Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Savor this slideshow that captured the red and white wines featured at the Twitter Taste-Off last weekend at Camden Yards. It was the final event in the daylong Drink Local Wine Conference in Baltimore.

Investing in the environment pays off for Woodberry firm

Katharine Schildt Scrivener Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Ecosystem Investment Partners raises money to restore and protect rural streams and wetlands. Developers and city agencies then buy credits from the company to fulfill federal environmental regulations. Learn more about this Baltimore company that is banking on the environment.

The local food movement is just a click away

Whitney Pipkin Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Relay Foods, Friends& Farms, Hometown Harvest and Baltimore's Green Grocer promise local food delivered to your doorstep or at fixed locations. Can they win over the buy-local crowd?

Green office architect planning wind-generation deal

Will Morton Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Architect and entrepreneur Stan Sersen has transformed a 1905 farmhouse on a former lumberyard into a modern office building called the Enviro Center. Now he is finalizing a wind-generation deal and an education initiative to teach environmental literacy to Maryland homeowners.

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