conference

Board members and interested parties must preregister for this annual conference.  Keep on top of the latest Land Trust topics, news, and procedures.  Check MET website to pre-register or for more information.

Formerly called the "Calvert Green Expo," the event has a new name and a new focus to bring you the freshest ideas in sustainable living!

Join for a hands-on festival of learning, playing, and engaging with people of all ages and backgrounds with an interest in sustainable, healthy lifestyles. Explore the links between sustainability, energy efficiency, conservation at home and at work, and a healthy environment. Talk with green product and service exhibitors and learn more about home improvement and healthy homes.

The Festival features local foods and spirits, along with homegrown entertainment. Children will enjoy recycled art projects and activities. Presentations and demonstrations throughout the day share the many ways that plants, air, water, soil and energy sustain our homes, our health, and our planet.

Come hear Dr. Orrin Pilkey and see the artwork of renowned artist Mary Edna Fraser at CBL on Solomons as they talk about their books A Celebration of the World's Barrier Islands (Columbia University Press) and Global Climate Change, A Primer (Duke University Press)  "There are 2,200 barrier island in the world, found on every continent except Antarctica. These amazingly dynamic features make up about 10% of the worlds open ocean coastlines and are found from the tropics to the Arctic . The Persian Gulf Islands formed in a desert environment, the Colombian Pacific islands formed in a tropical rain forest environment and the barrier islands of Siberia formed in the Arctic. America has by far the largest number (405) of such islands, many of which are popular tourist resorts. Each chain of islands is made up of different varieties of sediment, and is subjected to different types of waves and storm histories.. The barrier Islands of Iceland face some of the highest waves found in any of the worlds oceans while the islands along the Egyptian Nile Delta shore are subjected to small waves as a rule. All the islands went through similar histories of sea level change and most came to their present location and shape within the last 5,000 years and most are eroding today in response to sea level rise.” Orrin Pilkey and Mary Edna Fraser

FREE but limited space
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May 11, 2019  2-4  PM        

Every age can participate in this citizen-science app that records flora and fauna of a site.  Load the app onto your cell phone and take photos of nature around you.  Prizes for the most species recorded and for the rarest!  Add to a world wide database of species.  

Easter egg hunt on the farm for little visitors at  3 pm.  Free, but advisable to RSVP, as it looks to be a popular event.

Send your email address to SaveLand@PTLT.org and ask to be on the mailing list for this and/or three more scheduled iNaturalist events by PTLT this year.