USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week of September 21, 2009
News from Across the USM Campuses
September 25th
- Dr. Paula Shrewsbury from the University of Maryland, College Park,
Department of Entomology - "Influence
of Native Plants on Arthropod Biodiversity and Conservation Biological Control
in Urban Landscapes." Seminar
will be held on Friday at 2:00 pm in the Technology Research Center, Room 206,
on the campus of University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), and is free
and open to the public. Registration is not required. Visitor parking passes
for the TRC lot may be purchased for $4.00 in the CUERE office in TRC 102/105
on the UMBC campus, shortly before seminar.
September 24th
- Overview
of UMCP Campus Sustainability, 12:00-1:00pm, Prince George's Room,
Stamp Student Union, on the University of Maryland, College Park campus. The UMCP campus has made great progress in the past year toward its goal of
becoming a national leader in sustainability and a model green university. In
this first session of this semester's Sustainability Speaker Series, the staff
of the Office of Sustainability will provide an overview of the infrastructural
improvements, policies, programs, and people that are making this campus more
sustainable and will give a sneak preview of the exciting topics that will be
presented during the other sessions this semester.
September 24th - Aerosols
Matter for Climate and Health. What We Remote Sensing Scientists Can Do to Help,
Dr. Ralph Kahn, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Climate Branch. Abstract. Seminar will be
held from 3:30-4:30pm in the Computer and Space Sciences (CSS) Building,
Auditorium (Room 2400), on the University of Maryland, College Park campus. Refreshments
will be served at 3:00pm in the adjoining Atrium Contact: Rachel
Pinker for more information.
Frostburg
State University Finalizes Climate Action Plan: FSU Aiming for Climate Neutrality by 2030 (Frostburg
State University Press Release, 9/15/09)
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State of Maryland News
City
recycling exceeds expectations: 'People
have taken heed,' mayor says of gains (By Annie Linskey, The Baltimore Sun, 9/21/09)
Firms
Start to See Climate Change as Barrier to Profit (By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington
Post, 9/21/09)
Wine
corks sought by city for recycling (The Baltimore Sun, 9/20/09)
Environmentally
minded restrained by covenants: Neighbors,
preservationists cite safety issues, aesthetics (By Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun, 9/14/09)
Maryland
regulators open Constellation-EdF hearings today (The Associated Press as
reported in The Baltimore Sun, 9/14/09)
National and International News
Europeans
Say U.S. Lacks Will on Climate (By John M. Broder and James Kanter, The New
York Times, 9/20/09)
Silicon
Valley venture capitalists nurturing growth of green technology: Start-ups
often need big money and investors steeped in big science and big government. (By Todd Woody, The Baltimore Sun, 9/20/09)
Big Oil Goes Green for Real
(By Rana Foroohar, Newsweek magazine, 9/19/09)
In
hundreds of cities, parking spaces become parks (By The Associated Press as
reported on Yahoo News, 9/18/09)
Arctic
sea ice at third lowest level: Sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean reached the
third lowest level on record last year, according to the latest NASA statistics
(By Louise Gray, The [UK] Telegraph, 9/17/09)
Climate Action for
Some (By Jennifer Epstein, Inside Higher Ed, 9/17/09)
All
you can carry: College cafeterias go trayless (By Larry Gordon, The Los
Angeles Times, 9/14/09)
Energy
Secretary 'Optimistic' But Cautious (National Public Radio, 9/14/09)
Argentine
Cattle No Longer Just Home On The Range (By Juan Forero,
National Public Radio, 9/14/09)
12 current and
future fixes for transportation woes (By Evan Haning, WTOP Radio News,
9/14/09)
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