{"id":1578,"date":"2015-07-20T10:56:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T14:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2015-07-20T10:56:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T14:56:15","slug":"maryland-green-registry-names-2015-leadership-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/2015\/07\/20\/maryland-green-registry-names-2015-leadership-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Green Registry names 2015 Leadership Award winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Media Contacts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jay Apperson or Adrienne Diaczok
\n410-545-3003
\njay.apperson@maryland.gov
\n<\/a>adrienne.diaczok@maryland.gov<\/a><\/p>\n

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Maryland Green Registry names 2015 Leadership Award winners<\/strong>
\nWinners to be recognized at an evening event with U.S. Green Building Council, Maryland Chapter on July 29<\/span><\/span> in Baltimore<\/em><\/p>\n

(BALTIMORE, MD \u2013 July 20, 2015<\/span><\/span>) <\/strong>Maryland Department of the Environment Deputy Secretary Mary Tung will recognize Maryland Green Registry leadership winners including Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems, Prince George\u2019s Community College, Hord Coplan Macht, MedImmune\/AstraZeneca <\/strong>and Honest Tea <\/strong>at the\u00a0sixth annual\u00a0Maryland Green Registry Leadership Awards onWednesday, July 29<\/span><\/span>, in Baltimore. This year, the Registry has partnered with the U.S. Green Building Council, Maryland Chapter<\/a>\u00a0 on the event.<\/p>\n

In addition to the leadership awards, the Registry will also\u00a0announce\u00a0the collective annual environmental results and cost savings as reported\u00a0by all 450 Maryland Green Registry<\/a> member organizations over the past year and the total results of the Registry\u2019s Compost Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

WHO:<\/strong> \u00a0MDE Deputy Secretary Mary Beth Tung,\u00a0members of the Maryland Green Registry and U.S. Green Building Council, Maryland Chapter, and other members of the business and environmental communities.<\/p>\n

WHEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 Wednesday, July 29, 2015, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.<\/span><\/span> \u00a0The awards presentation begins at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

WHERE:<\/strong> \u00a0Nick\u2019s Fish House<\/a>, 2600 Insulator Drive, Baltimore, MD. Free onsite parking.<\/p>\n

WHY:<\/strong>\u00a0 The Leadership Awards recognize organizations that have shown a strong commitment to implementing sustainable practices, demonstrating measurable results and continually improving environmental performance. The Maryland Green Registry is a state program with more than 450 member organizations engaged in a wide range of sustainable practices.\u00a0 They include manufacturers, schools, healthcare facilities, nonprofits, and government.\u00a0 Each year, the Maryland Green Registry Leadership Awards are presented to five member organizations that have shown a strong commitment to implementing sustainable practices, demonstrating measurable results and continually improving environmental performance.<\/p>\n

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Media Contacts: Jay Apperson or Adrienne Diaczok 410-545-3003 jay.apperson@maryland.gov adrienne.diaczok@maryland.gov Maryland Green Registry names 2015 Leadership Award winners Winners to be recognized at an evening event with U.S. Green Building Council, Maryland Chapter on July 29 in Baltimore (BALTIMORE, MD \u2013 July 20, 2015) Maryland Department of the Environment Deputy Secretary Mary Tung will recognize  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maryland-green-registry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}