I've lived in Baltimore for about 3 years now, and it's a pretty decent city. It's definitely not one of the greenest cities in America, like Portland, but it's slowly making positive changes to push forward with Obama's soon-to-be "green revolution."

Now, instead of sewage polluting the beautiful Port of Baltimore, it will be used for something else:electricity.

The mayor, Sheila Dixon, just cut the ribbon on the Back River Sewage Plant, which is a co-generation plant that takes methane gas from underground pipes, eliminates all of the bad elements in it and then uses the energy to run an internal combustion engine.

It's a win/win situation for the city, who will:

• Save tax dollars
• Produce less coal-fired plants
• Reduce 13 million pounds of CO2 emissions into the air

Let's hope that this is a success!

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