Chesapeake Bay

What's Cleaner: Used Toilet Water or the Chesapeake Bay?

Judd Legum | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green


Judd Legum

Below is a brief excerpt from a conversation with Prof. Howard Ernst I recorded. He reveals how he answered a question you wish didn't need asking -- What's cleaner: used toilet water or the Chesapeake Bay?

Power Plants Don't Have to Suck (Literally)

Steve Fleischli | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green


Steve Fleischli

Collectively, the power industry sucks in approximately 80 trillion gallons of water annually to cool their equipment. In the process, they kill on a massive scale fish, larvae and other aquatic organisms.

Feds to Release Plan to Clean Up Chesapeake Bay

Nancy Stoner | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green


Nancy Stoner

The Chesapeake Bay watershed spans portions of six states and more than 60,000 square miles. The only way to clean up the Bay is to get all of those states to work at home to clean up the streams.

Obama to New Orleans: Drop Dead?

Harry Shearer | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics


Harry Shearer

The farther we get into this administration, the clearer it becomes that New Orleans is now enjoying its second consecutive federal administration with a do-nothing approach to helping the city.

Governor Kaine Leading the Way for the Chesapeake Bay

Ginna Kelly | Posted 06.13.2009 | Green


Ginna Kelly

Chesapeake Bay's health to be greatly improved by Virginia Governor Tim Kaine's aggressive efforts.

My Co-Worker is a Terrorist

Jake Brewer | Posted 11.23.2008 | Green


Jake Brewer

My co-worker, Josh's, most terrorizing activities? Helping pass landmark legislation like the Maryland Healthy Air Act and the Clean Car Bill.

Plain Food, Please

Amy Ephron | Posted 10.09.2008 | Living


Amy Ephron

We'd walked past it a couple of times, a simple storefront set back from the street with a small porch, a glimpse of tables inside, unassuming. The Key Lime Cafe. Full at lunch-time, we assumed it was a Maryland version of a diner.

The Dalai Lama: Ultimate Camp Counselor

Lindsay Mannering | Posted 07.09.2008 | Living


Lindsay Mannering

Every August from second grade to freshman year of high school, Mom and Dad packed my cedar trunk into the Plymouth Voyager and drove me northeast acr...