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Marsh Resilience Summit: A Conversation Among Communities, Scientists, and Managers in Coastal Virginia and Maryland February 5-6, 2019 The Woodlands Hotel and Suites 105 Visitor Center Drive Williamsburg, Virginia 23185 View our agenda This two-day summit is a science-practitioner dialogue about marsh vulnerability and ways our different fields and communities respond to these changing landscapes. The…

Mountainside Education & Enrichment in conjunction with Bar-T Mountainside is hosting MAEF’s 7th annual Winter Farm-Based Education Workshop Wednesday, Jan. 16th, 2019 from 9:30-3:30. Bar-T Mountainside is home to a summer camp, challenge and retreat center, and working vegetable farm. Hands-on learning through agricultural and culinary programming is the main focus of their popular Harvest Camp during…

Join the Natural History Society of Maryland and biologist Nick Spero on a winter hike to look for bald eagles! This is a great time of year to see them! We may also see some Lesser Scaup, Hooded Mergansers, and Common Mergansers. Nick Spero is a biologist who loves to observe wildlife. He was featured…

Bring some of your best fossils to trade with other members of the Natural History Society of Maryland Fossil Club! Bring ideas on fossil hunting locations you’d like the club to visit in the upcoming year. If you are not yet a member of NHSM or NHSM’s Fossil Club, you can join at our meeting!…

The coywolf, a mixture of western coyote and eastern wolf, is a remarkable new hybrid carnivore that is taking over territories once roamed by wolves and slipping unnoticed into our cities. Its appearance is very recent – within the last 90 years – in evolutionary terms, a blip in time. Beginning in Canada but by…

The story of organic agriculture, told by those in California who built the movement. A motley crew of back-to-the-landers, spiritual seekers and farmers’ sons and daughters reject chemical farming and set out to explore organic alternatives in Evolution of Organic. It’s a heartfelt journey of change from a small band of rebels to a cultural transformation…

How much do you know about the food that’s on your plate? Based on the bestselling book by Jonathan Safran Foer, narrated by co-producer Natalie Portman, and directed by Christopher Quinn (God Grew Tired of Us), Eating Animals is an urgent, eye-opening look at the environmental, economic, and public health consequences of factory farming. Tracing the…

If you think waste is someone else’s problem…think again. In Trashed, actor Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution. The film reveals surprising truths about very immediate and potent dangers to our health. It is…

In the stunning documentary Bluefin, director John Hopkins crafts a tale of epic stakes set in the “tuna capital of the world.” Filmed in North Lake, Prince Edward Island, Canada, the film explores the baffling mystery of why the normally wary bluefin tuna no longer fear humans. Hopkins documents this phenomenon with breathtaking cinematography and brings…

Filmmaker James Redford embarks on a colorful personal journey into the dawn of the clean energy era as it creates jobs, turns profits, and makes communities stronger and healthier across the US. Unlikely entrepreneurs in communities from Georgetown, TX to Buffalo, NY reveal pioneering clean energy solutions while James’ discovery of how clean energy works,…