Environment
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Going Green
'Green' Landscaping Companies Get Boost from County Certification
Seven landscaping businesses based in Montgomery County were the first to be recognized as part of the county's Green Landscape Business Certification Program. It's an extention of the ge...
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Schools
German School's Science Building Gets LEED Gold
Potomac's newest green building—the new science building at the German School of Washington, DC—recently received LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold Certification f...
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Going Green
Montgomery County Recycles More Than Any Other Place in Maryland
How much of what Montgomery County residents dispose ends up in landfills? Less than half, according to data from the Maryland Department of the Environment, which ranked the county first...
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Schools
Brickyard Educational Farm's Sophia Maravell Speaks at Wood Acres E.S.'s Earth Week
Wood Acres Elementary School, the largest elementary school in the Walt Whitman High School cluster, is hosting Earth Week activities this week, according to a school statement. On T...
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Business
Lockheed Martin, Microsoft Among Top 10 Renewable Energy-Using Organizations
Bethesda-based defense giant Lockheed Martin Corporation ranked ninth on the Environmental Protection Agency's list—released Wednesday—of organizations using renewable energy, according t...