Sustainable Maryland Newsletters
2026
January 2026 - SM Action Grants Announced
February 2026 - SM's 15th Anniversary
2025
January 2025 - SM Action Grant Awardees / Gaithersburg HOA Summit / Sustainable Growth Webinar Library
February 2025 - SM Certification Webinar / Rockville's EV Plan / SM Virtual Happy Hours / Urban Forestry Careers Camp at UMD
March 2025 - Residing in Rural Communities Workshop / SM Virtual Happy Hours / Urban Forestry Careers Camp at UMD
April 2025 - Exelon Grants: Pepco and Delmarva Power (New!)
May 2025 - New SM Sponsor: Solar Landscape
June 2025 - Emmitsburg launches SM-funded Community Garden
July 2025 - SM Happy Hour
August 2025 - WALKtober SM Sustainability Tours
September 2025 - SM Action Grants Announcement
October 2025 - Pepco/Delmarva Power Grants Announced
November 2025 - Fall SM Events - Convening, Connecting, Inspiring
December 2025 - Happy Holidays / SM Happy Hour
2024
January 2024- SM Leadership Training: Funding Climate & Energy Projects / Climate Polluntion / Somerset Installs Solar at Town Hall
February 2024 - MD Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Update / Prince George's Bag It Right Bill in Effect / Sm Certification Webinar April 10
March 2024 - EFC Hiring for Two New Climate Positions / Bike Maryland Webinar on SM-Related Actions / Net-Zero Energy Survey
April 2024 - SM Certification Webinar April 10 / Small But Mighty Glen Echo Green Team / Port Towns Walkable Watershed Meeting April 23
May 2024 - SM 2023 Annual Report / SM Visits with Boonsboro Green Team / SM Climate Webinars
June 2024 - SM Certification Deadline June 30 / Pepco Grant Deadline July 12 / Urban Forestry Careers Camp This Summer
July 2024 - Brentwood & North Breentwood Remove Segregation-era Barriers and Install Public Art & Park / Sustainability Tours / SM Office is Moving
August 2024 - SM Sustaibability Tours in October / SM Climate Webinars this Summer / Apply for Costal Climate Action Planning Grants
September 2024 - MD Local Government Climate Action Support / SM Sustainability Tours in October / MD Climate Change Commission Wants Your Input
October 2024 - New SM Action Grants! / 2024 Pepco Grant Awardees / New SM Sponsor: Remington & Vernick / Eastern Shore Land Use Analysis / More SM Sustainability Tours
November 2024 - Welcome Highland Beach and Union Bridge! / Forest Heights Profile on WUSA9 / MEA Decarbonization Program Info Sessions
December 2024 - Riverdale Park Updates Town Seal / Prince George's Climate Stewards Academy / Consider a Year End Gift to SM
2023
January 2023- Urban Trees Program / Climate Program Portal Assists Communities in Navigating IRA and IIJA / Prince George's County Audubon - Wildlife Habitat Program
February 2023 - Chestertown Green Team Advances Organic Mosquito Control Effect / Prince George's County Virtual Sustainability Summit For Homeowner and Civic Associations
March 2023- Earth Month Events Across Maryland / Webinar: 2023 SM Certification / SM Virtual Spring Happy Hour
April 2023- We're Hiring! SM Program Assistant / Earth Month Events / Pepco Grants / Maryland Day
2022
January 2022 - Urban Forests as Natural Assets: Estimating and Communicating the Return on Investment in Urban and Community Forestly Resources / Uncovering the Immense Value of Parks in New York City / Tap into Resilience Summit / Online Training: Nitrates in Drinking Water and the Promise of Parternerships
February 2022 - SM Expands Work with Homeowners Associations in Gaithersburg / Update on Sustainable Maryland Program Fund HB0100/SB0014 / SM Certification and Re-Certification Webinar / SM Happy Hour
March 2022 - SM Expands Work with Homeowners and Civic Associations in Prince George's County / Update on Sustainable Maryland Program Fund HB100/SB14 / Electric Vehicles Webinars
April 2022- SB14 SM Program Fund Passes Both Chambers / Route One Pollinator Project / Earth Month Events
May 2022 - Gov. Hogan Signs SB14 into Law / Pollinator Week
June 2022- 2021 SM Annual Report / Middletown's Tree Tour / Pollinator Week
July 2022- Small Systems Assistance / Compete Streets / Prince George's Climate Action Plan Adopted
August 2022- Sustainable States Network 2021-22 Annual Report / Pepco Grants / Technical Assistance to Access Federal Infrastructure Dollars
September 2022 - Pepco Grants Deadline / Does Your Prince George's HOA Need Sustainabilty Assistance? / October is WALKtober
October 2022- Congrats to the 2022 SM Certified Municipalities!
November 2022 - EPA Recycling Grants for Local Governments / Sustainability Assistance for Homeowners and Civiv Associations in Prince George'd County in 2023 / Our 2022-2023 SM Program Assistants
December 2022 - Pepco Sustainable Communities Grants Announced / 3rd city of Gaithersburg Sustainability Summit for Homeowners Associations / UMD Student Assistance for Municipal Cabron Footprint
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