Location
Memorial Episcopal Church
1407 Bolton St
Baltimore, MD, 21217
Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/08/2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Category(ies)
The History of Urban Forests and the Imperative of Green Infrastructure for our City” You won’t want to miss noted historian/author and scholar Jill Jonnes’s lecture on Urban Forests. She, the Founder and Co-Chair of Flowering Tree Trails and co-founder of the Baltimore Tree Trust, will also discuss “green infrastructure” as a means of controlling urban run-off. Dr. Jonnes will be joined in the Q&A afterwards by: Jenn Aiosa, Blue Water Baltimore’s Executive Director; Lisa Schroeder, Parks & People Foundation’s CEO; Jodi Rose, Interfaith Partners of the Chesapeake’s CEO; Lisa McNeilly, Director of the Baltimore Office of Sustainability; and, (invited) Dion Wright, Civic Works Foundation Deputy Director. Subject-matter experts will also be in attendance. WHEN: April 8, 2019, 7-9pm WHERE: Memorial Episcopal Church, 1407 Bolton St. (Bolton Hill), Baltimore City ADMISSION: Free (donations will be kindly accepted at the door) HOSTS: Creation Care Team, Memorial Episcopal Church, and Greengrace (Maryland Episcopal Environmental Partners, a mission of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland) SPONSORS: Blue Water Baltimore/Herring Run – Bolton Hill Garden Club – Chesapeake Bay Trust – CityScape Engineering – Fresh on the Avenue/No Boundaries Coalition – Loyola University Maryland – Morgan State University – MICA – Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake/One Water Partnership Jones Falls – Mahan-Rykiel Associates – Parks & People Foundation, Patterson Park Audubon Center – University of Baltimore