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When You’re Feeling Blue, Think Native Plants

Alliance staff, Jamie Alberti, loves to surround herself with blues, and that includes her outdoor space. If you’d like to add a little dash of blue to your gardens, consider her top five favorite blue native plants!

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Wild & Scenic Film Festival is Almost Here!

Since 2019, the Alliance has brought communities in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, DC, together by hosting the Wild & Scenic Film Festival across the watershed. This spring, the Film Festival will provide warmth, inspire action, and raise hope during a time of growth and rebirth.

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DEIJ at the Alliance: Greater Transparency & Accountability

Excitement, discomfort and growth are just some of the feelings that come to mind when describing the Alliance’s diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) journey as an organization. While the Alliance’s programming inherently focuses around restoration, conservation, and environmental resilience, it is with social justice efforts that we see the sustained impacts of this work, and in turn communities that are better able to address environmental challenges.

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Welcoming new Board Members and Leadership in 2023!

As the Alliance starts work in our 52nd year, we are excited to announce new Board leadership and members, Kaci Easley, John Cox, and Marvin Washington.

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Four Ways to Go Greener

Today officially kicks off National Green Week! The holiday, or days, can be observed from the first full week in February until April 30th. The beauty of the holiday is that you can choose any week during this timeframe to be your Green Week. All of us can observe this time and do what we can to ensure we are setting a green example for future generations.

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For a Resilient Chesapeake Bay, We Need an Even More Resilient Effort

I think often of how we’re building resilience into our landscapes, our communities and our partnerships. Resilience is defined as the ability to bounce back from adverse conditions, a concept that is at the root of the restoration efforts in the Bay watershed. When we focus on building something resilient for the future, it forces us to concentrate on the steps between now and that future state.

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More Milkweed for the Monarchs

I remember how excited I would get as a child before entering the local butterfly enclosure. My friends, family, and others there were always on the lookout for one of the most iconic pollinators in the Americas – the monarch butterfly. Decades later, while partnering with a monarch conservation group, I was thrilled to see the awe remain in the eyes of today’s children during their yearly monarch release. Crossing borders and biomes, monarch butterflies are still a source of wonder and an inspiring symbol of summer in the Chesapeake Bay.

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Chesapeake Tales: A Seven-part Fishing Adventure Series

In June of 2022, my brother and I teamed up with Fly Fishers International to create a seven-part video series highlighting the watershed’s different fisheries. Traveling in an old camper van, we spent seven days traveling over a thousand miles throughout the watershed. Our first stop led us to a familiar guest in the legendary waters of central Pennsylvania.

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The Alliance’s DEIJ Terminology Guide Continues to Evolve

The latest version of the Alliance’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ) Terminology Guide has been released! Since its debut in 2021, the DEIJ Terminology Guide has maintained the goal of providing communicative guidance on commonly used DEIJ expressions for organizations operating within the environmental field. With continued research and much feedback from our partners, …

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Thank You for an Impactful 2022

As we kick off 2023, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on all of the accomplishments you helped us achieve last year. By collaborating with like-minded individuals like you, our team worked around the watershed in 2022 to prevent pollution and accelerate clean water in our Chesapeake communities.

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