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Month: June 2018

Jane Berkow speaking during presentation

Green Burial: An Environmentally Friendly Option to Return the Body to Earth

June 27, 2018June 26, 2018 Carly Brockinton0

View our May speaker series featuring Jane Berkow, the president of the Green Burial Association of Maryland, which she helped found in 2015. In 2014, she retired from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, where she worked for 20 years as an organization development consultant.

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Where the Wild Things Live

June 20, 2018June 14, 2018 Carly Brockinton0

Bowie —  Two years after Bowie was certified as a National Wildlife Federation Certified Community Wildlife Habitat, the community has not stopped promoting its efforts to reverse the loss of wildlife habitat and promote the use of green spaces.

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Who we are

June 13, 2018June 13, 2018 Carly Brockinton0

A look at Prince George’s County demographics

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Bicycle riders

Largo Welcomes Bike Share Program

June 6, 2018June 14, 2018 Carly Brockinton3

Largo — Prince George’s County’s Bike to Work Day 2018 welcomed Capital Bikeshare to Largo as a newest arm of the multimodal transportation the Planning Department touts in its communities.

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Pig at Cabin Creek Heritage Farm

Rural Living, Just Beyond the Beltway

June 5, 2018June 14, 2018 Carly Brockinton2

Upper Marlboro — Cabin Creek Heritage Farm is an example of what the Prince George’s County Planning Department was striving to achieve in its RCP. The goal of the plan is “preserving our existing rural and agricultural communities including our rural viewsheds, farmland, and the agricultural economy.”

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