Fellow Maryland residents: have you ever wanted to visit somewhere beautiful, like Yosemite or Yellowstone, but have never been able to because it would be too expensive to book hotels or fly by plane? Today, I present to you four places within the National Park System that are within driving distance from our nation’s capital. …
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When we think of Japan, we imagine litter-free cities, high-tech bullet trains, and the pristine air revealing the views of Mount Fuji and towering pagodas from many miles away. After all, Japan is one of the world’s leading contributors to sustainability (ranked #21 most sustainable according to the United Nations) and serves as a green …
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It is late October, while people are glued to the TV screen to watch the Fall Classic – ALCS and NLCS. As a neutral fan, I have been more rewarded than, say, a die-hard Oriels fan, whose team got eliminated in just a matter of days
Towering over the south side of Baltimore and adjacent to the intersection of Interstate 95 and 395, the infamous Wheelabrator Baltimore incinerator has sparked controversy and environmental protests in the city for decades. The Wheelabrator is a power plant that burns food waste
It is late October, while people are glued to the TV screen to watch the Fall Classic – ALCS and NLCS. As a neutral fan, I have been more rewarded than, say, a die-hard Oriels fan, whose team got eliminated in just a matter of days
Each year from September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic American Heritage Month. When we celebrate the countless contributions of more than 60 million Hispanic and Latin Americans in the U.S. to our society, do you know there are many historical landmarks
Can you name a US holiday in September? Of course, everyone knows about Labor Day. Some may
be able to name the holidays on the Jewish calendar, but I bet you that the vast majority will be hard
pressed to name this one – National CleanUp Day.
Back in July 2021 our family set up on a road trip northward to Maine. Shortly after passing New York City, we were along I-95 heading north along the Rhode Island Coastline. My Dad who is an engineer in the energy industry,
On the morning of June 13, 2022, a once-every-500-year flooding event devastated Yellowstone National Park in a way that had never been witnessed before. This event was caused by an unfortunate combination of weather factors. An atmospheric river dumped several inches of rain for days across northwest Wyoming and southeast Montana, which coincided with a …
Nowadays we talk about battery storage but few people realize that another form of energy storage is simply by water, and large volumes of it
