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Join us for the 6th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival on March 7 at The Miracle Theater in Washington, DC!
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The end of 2023 brings us to the close of another fabulous year of green infrastructure in Washington, DC! “‘Tis the season for stormwater management” is how the carol goes, right?
This semester’s Environmental projects Intern, Jordan Oliver, from Bowie State University, has concluded his time with the Alliance! The fall 2023 term brought some very special times which included monthly water quality monitoring, events, networking relationships, and exciting professional development opportunities.
Beneath a creek’s waters lives an entirely different ecosystem of critters that would not look out of place from the movie franchise, Alien, clinging to rocks and crawling on the submerged substrate. Despite their less than loveable features, a stream’s aquatic benthic macroinvertebrates are great indicators of stream health.
Please join the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and Washington, DC’s Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE) for a free, virtual rain garden installation training.
Learn about how you can manage stormwater on your property with shade trees, rain barrels, rain gardens, BayScaping, or permeable pavers.
Join the Alliance’s Washington, DC team as we partner with Boating in DC for a Project Clean Stream event! Experience paddling on the Potomac while helping clean trash and debris from the local waterway.
Learn how to install a rain barrel! The District Department of Energy & Environment offers rebates on rain barrels to DC residents.
Apply now to join us at the HBCU/MSI Chesapeake Bay Summit where students and faculty members from HBCUs and MSIs in Washington, DC and Maryland will come together to discuss issues related to the Chesapeake Bay.
When you think of bamboo you may think of giant pandas or red pandas and that makes perfect sense as the word ‘panda’ is thought to have come from the Nepalese words ‘nigalaya ponya’ translating to ‘bamboo eater’. Although you can find both beloved creatures in zoos or research institutions, like the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, there are no wild North American species that consume the invasive bamboo species.
