Editor's Blog

This announcement has come across the wires from Frankie Blackburn, the executive director of IMPACT Silver Spring. As a graduate of the IMPACT program, I highly recommend it to anyone interested in making a difference in our community.
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IMPACT Silver Spring is now accepting applications for the eighth year of its training program, Neighborhood IMPACT 2007, formerly called Community Empowerment Program (CEP). Neighborhood IMPACT is a unique leadership development and community action program offered to Silver
Spring renters.

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After you watch the "Cleaning the Green" video, check out "Showing Off on the Silver Spring Turf" uploaded to YouTube by blademonki (Ryan).

(BTW, Blademonki, feel free to contact us so that we can attribute you with more than a screen name.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUiE41wBBFs&NR=1

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Check out this fun video and blog entry from Richard Jaeggi—about cleaning the astroturf on Ellsworth Drive.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41ltzLBskJI

A few weeks ago my family was lamenting the horribly dirty state of Silver Spring's downtown green space, AKA, the Turf. I was complaining about my failed attempts to persuade local officials to clean it.

My daughter, uninterested in sharing my high dudgeon, made a brilliant suggestion. "Why don't we clean it ourselves?"

In a stroke: from powerlessness to power. Of course we could clean it ourselves— and have a good time to boot. So we teamed up with our friends the Karn/McDonagh's, put out a call for assistance on the list serve, and showed up on Saturday with brooms and trash bags.

As if by divine intervention, on the very Friday before our clean up, the Red Shirt Brigade was moved to do a thorough clean up of the turf, which made our jobs much easier. Big thanks to the Red Shirts.

This movie is a little vignette of that pleasant afternoon on the Turf.

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Clean Currents, LLC, a DC area sustainably-operated clean energy business announced today that it is sponsoring SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel’s Documentary Festival and donating offsets to make the event the first ever carbon neutral documentary film festival in the U.S.  The company will measure the carbon emissions from the energy used by the film festival and purchase clean energy credits to completely offset them. Clean Currents will also advise and help SILVERDOCS promote environmental initiatives during the week-long film fest in June.

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