A wonderful new event premiered last Saturday – a walking tour of Greenbelt Lake led by Greenbelt City Park Rangers. Attendees seemed unanimous in their praise of the event (especially our guides) and were glad to hear it’ll be repeated … Read More
Help us archive Greenbelt’s experience of the Brood X Cicadas by sending us your photos and videos to add to the collection. (Photos are best sent at 1,000 pixels width, mailed to editor@greenbeltonline.org.) Or tag Greenbelt Online when you post … Read More
Greenbelters may be gearing up for their happiest spring ever – we’re SO damn happy to be able to gather outside again!! Still safely, of course. Drumming for Wellness What a spirit-booster it was to see community drumming in Roosevelt … Read More
by Hally Ahearn, Beth LeaMond and Susan Harris The City of Greenbelt currently supports several opportunities for residents to recycle organic matter, to keep food scraps from creating methane at the landfill. You can participate in returning food scraps to … Read More
By Guest post by Owen Kelley (This article was originally posted to the Prince George’s County Issues Forum on the Sierra Club website.) The Sierra Club is devoted to fighting climate change, and it does not take kindly to companies greenwashing … Read More
Greenbelt Biota, a Facebook group of 397 members as of July 2020, calls itself Greenbelt’s Natural History Society. and indeed these folks KNOW the critters and plants of Greenbelt like nobody else. (They’re also one of the first to get … Read More
by Jamie Jorgensen Greenbelt Online invited Jamie, (co-founder of Greenbelt Biota) to list for readers the most common birds seen in Greenbelt, plus where and when they can be seen. To further aid beginning and intermediate birders he recommends these … Read More
As a regular outdoor walker for exercise and the sheer pleasure of being outdoors, I’d been frustrated in my search for walking routes around Old Greenbelt. My own attempts had resulted in deadends, stretching of walking in the street and … Read More
Good news! Greenbelt has its own field guide now: “A Hundred Wild Things – a Field Guide to Plants in the Greenbelt North Woods.” In this blog post, local author Owen Kelley answers our questions about the field guide and … Read More
Greenbelters, I do love our own lake but for a change of pace I drive to beautiful, sunny Lake Artemesia, just 2 miles down Greenbelt Road. Blooming in this recent shot are white Hibiscus and purplish Joe Pye Weed. Catmint is … Read More
Remember the wedding of Hillary Gottemoeller and Joe Harris in Roosevelt Center back in 2015? Thought so! They’ll be returning to their wedding venue this Saturday, when they perform for the Crazy Quilt Festival, organized again by Joe. But this … Read More
by Jeff Lemieux Do you remember decades ago when Takoma Park, Md. declared itself a “nuclear-free zone”? The declaration generated both headlines and ridicule – it certainly created controversy and buzz. You could say it was a cheap gimmick. … Read More
Lake Artemesia was a popular place to enjoy a glorious Earth Day this year, and not coincidentally the site of a big Good Neighbor Day event. Their website tells us that Good Neighbor Day is a collaborative partnership between … Read More
Another great “Greenbelt Minute” from videographer Andy Zmidzinski. In this one he follows CHEARS volunteers Joe Robbins, Bob Cahalan and Eugenia Kalnay as they remove plastics and other crap out of Greenbelt Lake. Thanks, volunteers!
by Jeff Lemieux Several years ago, I wrote about trying to transform some of Greenbelt’s empty parking lots into usable space. Here’s an idea: what about community *solar farms? I have four locations in mind so far: 1) the southmost … Read More
