Seven preservation and revitalization projects in Baltimore City have been awarded a total of $50,000 through the Baltimore City Historic Preservation Fund. The projects represent a wide variety of challenges and opportunities – all focused on preserving neighborhood identity and contributing to community revitalization.
After 50 years of representing Maryland’s 27th District, 33 years of which he spent presiding over the Senate, former Maryland Senate President Emeritus Thomas V. “Mike” Miller Jr. announced Wednesday he is retiring from the state senate. President Miller was a long-term champion of Maryland’s history and heritage and received the 2014 President’s Award from Preservation Maryland in recognition of his commitment to historic preservation.
Preservation Maryland’s Executive Director Nicholas Redding is the host of PreserveCast, a podcast with a worldwide listenership that explores the broad world of preservation from every angle – from drones to mudlarking and everything in between.
Storm Cunningham in Frederick, MD, 2016.
At this year’s educational conference in July, Preservation Maryland had the pleasure of welcoming as our keynote a speaker and author whose work is leading the way for partnerships between preservationists and environmentalists, Storm Cunningham and have published to YouTube a high-quality video of his enlightening preservation:
Storm Cunningham is the publisher of Revitalization News and the author of The Restoration Economy, reWealth, and the forthcoming, Planetary Renewal: A Strategy To Reverse Our Decline. As a regional partnership planner he has facilitated comprehensive revitalization processes, not just a vision, project or plan which help places enhance their economy, boost quality of life and increase climate resilience by repurposing, renewing and reconnecting their natural built and socioeconomic assets.
Storm joined our group of preservationists, planners and heritage tourism and museum professionals to show the group how they can think differently about who they partner with and what benefit comes from those partnerships. If we want to make the world a better and more sustainable place, we need to breakdown the silos each discipline has wedge themselves. One example Storm shared was a potential relationship between water people and solar people. Instead of saying we have nothing in common, think about your goals and how they overlap. Solar people want to solar panels to make clean energy and water people want to get safe and clean water long distances. Water evaporates unless it is covered, so why not cover the water channels with solar panels? This is a win win. More energy and less water loss.