New Recycling Bins in Bethesda!

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Bethesda Green Introduces New Recycling Bins in Downtown Bethesda!

The New Recycling Bins Are Out

A huge thank you to Eagle Bank, Eat the Change, Johns Hopkins, Solar Mowing, and the Mid-Atlantic Beverage Association for sponsoring the bins. They will help contribute to responsible waste collection for the next decade or more. Learn more about our Bethesda Recycles Campaign.

Meet Environmental Leader Paula Gonzalez Alvarez

Bethesda Green’s Environmental Leaders Program is an experiential school-year long sustainability program targeting high school students in their senior year currently offered for Montgomery County high schools. The training focuses on environmental stewardship and community engagement with local organizations and businesses.

Paula Gonzalez Alvarez is a Senior at Walt Whitman High School and an aspiring engineer. She believes learning about green living and environmental conservation will help her create more sustainable projects in the future. Read Paula's blog post exploring the truth about compostable utensils here.

Hear from Former Bethesda Green Environmental Leader Eve London on Youth and Climate Change

Wondering how young people are acting on climate change? Former 2019-2020 Bethesda Green Environmental Leader, Eve London recently wrote about it in an op-ed. Read it here.

Incubator and Amplifier Accepting Applications

Bethesda Green’s Innovation Lab identifies and nurtures green, for-profit startups aligned with our vision for a sustainable, impactful, and purposeful economy. Our suite of programs support idea-stage companies through those raising Series A rounds, and we are currently recruiting.

Though applications for our Accelerator program have closed, rolling applications continue for our Incubator and Amplifier programs. Learn more about our programs here.

Questions? Contact the Innovation Lab team!

RSVP for DGrid Energy's January Info Session

Bethesda Green's Innovation Lab invites you to join Eugene Faison, founder and CEO of DGrid Energy, for an information session about how DGrid's system of food-grade cold storage solutions and wash stations can help address capacity concerns for farmers, farmers markets, food hubs and food pantries around the region. Sign up here!

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We are Officially a Green America Certified Green Business

We are thrilled to announce we have earned Green America's Green Business Certification. This Certification is awarded to small to mid-sized businesses and organizations that are committed to using their platform for positive social and environmental change and growing the new green economy from the ground up.

B Corp 101 January Workshops

The B Corp Workshop Series offers business tools to benchmark, express and improve their triple bottom line impact (People, Planet, Profit) through B Lab’s SDG Manager and B Impact Assessment (BIA). Through this program, our region is encouraging the triple-bottom-line business philosophy, so that one day, companies thrive not only to be the best, but also to attract the best for workers, and improve communities and the environment.

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Meet our New B Corp Intern Eleanor Spies

Eleanore Spies | B Corp Intern
Eleanore is a Bethesda native and third-year student at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is completing a major in economics and a minor in sustainability. Eleanore is passionate about reducing single-use plastic waste and teaching her peers about sustainability. She will be working on the Best for DMV Campaign and the B Corp 101 Workshop series. Outside of work, Eleanore can be found searching for new hiking trails, baking, and painting.

Thank you to ODNB!

Old Dominion National Bank stepped up over the summer to help Bethesda Green process our Paycheck Protection Program loan application to get much needed financial support during this challenging year. Mark Merrill, the bank’s Chairman and CEO, told me: “We believe that Bethesda Green’s mission of pursuing sustainable urban ecosystems is a laudable goal, and we appreciate the opportunity to help Bethesda Green continue its efforts. We look forward to an ongoing and expanded relationship and to assisting Bethesda Green and its individual members in the future.” We’re grateful for the partnership and thank ODNB for its support.

Support Bethesda Green and Gifts Outside the Box

Bethesda Green is participating in the Department of Environmental Protection’s Gift Greener Challenge, encouraging everyone to give gifts this holiday season that reduce waste: gifts of service, donations, etc. Check out the campaign and make a commitment to gift green this holiday season!

If you plan to order gifts from Amazon, use smile.amazon.com/ch/26-1825747 to generate donations for Bethesda Green.

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