Chesapeake Bay Green Entrepreneur Roundtable
Please join us on Zoom to hear from several entrepreneurs addressing ecological and collective health in communities across the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This online space is intended to highlight environmental and social entrepreneurs, helping to connect them to resources, build awareness of their work, and amplify their current needs (including funding, partnership-building, customer introductions, team-building, and more).
On March 13, we will hear from:
What the Sprout (Quandra Gray, Founder)
Quandra is leading an effort to build food security in Baltimore through community-focused agricultural education focused on microgreens.
Living Energy Lights (Sam Butler)
Living Energy Lights is helping multi-family buildings and apartments become energy independent — with solar thermal heating, PVs designed to minimize battery needs, on-site biogas, and thick wall insulation that stores carbon.
Growing, harvesting, and producing consumer goods on marginal lands (Michael Maddox, Project Coordinator, UMD Climate Resilience Network)
Mike is coordinating an effort to form a cooperative of growers producing miscanthus on salty/marginal lands throughout the Chesapeake Bay region at an industrial scale for use in producing paper and other commercial products.
Good Idea Solar (Justin Aydelotte, President & Founder)
Justin works with family farmers to convert a portion of their land to community solar, providing clean, renewable energy to the surrounding community at below-market rates.
This online event is open to all. If any of the below describe you, you will likely find this series of calls helpful:
You are interested in understanding novel and entrepreneurial approaches to ecological and social challenges in the watershed.
You are seeking to build partnerships and collaborate with ecological and social entrepreneurs the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
You are interested in finding an internship or job with an organization working on ecological or social challenges.
You want to fund novel and entrepreneurial approaches to ecological and social challenges.
Each entrepreneur will speak for no more than 8 minutes with 5 minutes for Q&A and will end their portion with a summary of their needs. Examples of needs might include talent, fundraising, customer intros, stakeholder and government connections, etc.
The value of this event is in increasing connectivity between different stakeholders in the regional climate and entrepreneurship ecosystems. By holding this call, we hope to facilitate connections between entrepreneurs, supporters, funders, government, community members, and more.
We intend to hold this event on regular basis going forward. Entrepreneurs interested in participating in future roundtables should email Scott Christensen at schris14@umd.edu.