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How founders are taking on housing costs worldwide.

Plastic is Trisha Cheeny's bag. A recent graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she majored in interdisciplinary sculpture, Cheeny is looking to launch Pälemer, a line of clothing and accessories derived...

Mr. Trash Wheel and Professor Trash Wheel sound like characters on a children's program, but they are actually solar- and hydro-powered trash interceptors cleaning up Baltimore's Inner Harbor. As cute as they are effective,...

While the timing may seem inopportune—the infamous Baltimore riots occurred nearly one year prior—organizers and residents alike believe that an ambitious event like Light City Baltimore is needed now more than ever to...

Perhaps most famous as the backdrop for parts of the HBO series “The Wire,” the East Baltimore area located just north of the Johns Hopkins Medical School is notorious for its high vacancy, poverty, and crime rates...

Silo Pont by Turner Development Group When originally constructed in 1923, the grain elevator owned by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was the world’s largest and fastest...

Every year as part of Greenbuild’s GreenZone, BDC enlists the help of generous sponsors to construct an environmentally friendly building for a local non-profit...

Baltimore’s Water Wheel picked up an unexpected and alarming visitor last week: a five-foot-long ball python found cozied up on the machine’s solar power inverter...

The earthquake in Nepal, the riots in Baltimore, the London marathon – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week

“Burn baby, burn” is an old chant for a new generation of Americans who are too inconvenienced to put a bottle or two in a blue bin instead of a brown one...

Located on what had once been an underutilized and largely paved pass-through space along the city's Inner Harbor, Pierce's Park was developed to satisfy a need for a children's play area in Downtown Baltimore...

Every year, stormwater runoff carries tons of trash and debris from the streets and streams of the Jones Fall watershed down into the mouth of the Jones Falls stream and out into the Baltimore Harbor...

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization produced a new study that says the United States has the greatest potential for fish farming. While oceanic agriculture has become popular overseas, it still hasn’t taken hold...

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization produced a new study that says the United States has the greatest potential for fish farming. While oceanic agriculture has become popular overseas, it still hasn’t taken hold...

Last year Japan set to work testing the world’s fastest “floating” maglev train, which can hit top speeds of over 310 mph. Now, keen to share (or show off) their feat to the rest of the world, the Japanese...