USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week of February 15, 2010
News
from Across the USM Campuses
February 18th - Sustainability Taskforce
Meeting - Coppin State University, from 3:30 - 5:00 pm in Room 218B, Dining and Meeting
Hall, on the CSU campus.
February 19th - Dr. Peter Groffman, Cary Institute of Ecosystem
Studies,?Millbrook, NY. "Nitrogen
Cycling in Urban Watershed Ecosystems." The seminar will be held on Friday at 2 PM in the Technology Research Center,
Room 206, on the UMBC campus, 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.
February 25th - 6:30-8:00pm, National Building Museum,
Washington DC - A Green Building is a
Healthier One - Can working in a green
building make you healthier? And if you can prove this, would reduce a
company's health care insurance? Find out if this is a game changer when
considering how and when to build sustainably. A discussion with: Gregory Kats,
senior director and director of climate change policy, Good Energies, Michelle
Moore, Federal Environmental Executive, President's Council on Environmental
Quality, Mark Nicholls, Senior Vice President, Corporate Workplace Executive,
Bank of America, Vivian Loftness, Professor, Carnegie Mellon School of
Architecture, Moderator, Robert Ivy, Architectural Record Editor-In-Chief.
March 21-23 - The Inn & Conference Center, University of Maryland
University College Smart and
Sustainable Campuses Conference - Colleges and universities have a significant impact on the built
and natural environment and are under increasing pressure from governments,
students, and community members to carefully mitigate their environmental
footprint. This comprehensive symposium features sessions and workshops on
smart growth and sustainable practices that serve the economy, the community,
and the environment. Topics include institutionalizing sustainability,
operational solutions, smart growth and campus planning, and assessment and
measurement.
Environment,
international study degrees approved by UB regents (By Andrew Katz, Capital News
Services, 2/13/10)
SU hosts
Chesapeake forum (By Deborah Gates,
DelMarVaNow.com, 2/12/10) [Article
quotes Court Stevenson of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental
Science, and Tom Horton of the Salisbury
University Environmental Issues program]
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Road Salt Concerns Some Environmental
Experts (By Kavitha
Cardoza, WAMU - National Public Radio, 2/11/10) [Article quotes Sujay Kaushal, of the
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]
Feared
coastal flooding has yet to materialize: Ocean City officials expect to examine
beach Monday (By Andrea F. Siegel, The Baltimore Sun, 2/8/10) [Article quotes Dr. Donald F. Boesch,
President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]
State
of Maryland News
Don't
use lawn fertilizer to melt ice; try sand or litter (By Meredith Cohn, The
Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 2/12/10)
On
the "green trail" at Baltimore auto show (By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green
Blog, 2/12/10)
General Assembly
targets road salt in drinking water (By Meredith
Cohn, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 2/12/10) [Original
article in the Gazette.Net]
National
and International News
Cities
Prepare for Life With the Electric Car (By Todd Woody and Clifford Krauss, The New York Times, 2/14/10)
Wyoming considers
becoming first state to tax wind energy production (By Matt Joyce,
The Washington Post, 2/14/10)
Washington's snowstorms, brought to you by
global warming (By Bill McKibben, The Washington Post,
2/14/10)
Oil
groups mount legal challenge to Schwarzenegger's tar sands ban: Californian
legislation branded 'unconstitutional'; Lobby group includes UK energy
companies
(By Terry Macalister, The [UK] Guardian, 2/14/10)
Climate
skeptics heart the IPCC (mistakes) (By
Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post -
Post Carbon, 2/14/10)
As
politicians waffle on climate change, glaciers exit Glacier National Park: Gubernatorial frontrunner
Hickenlooper flip flops on warming; Senate dark horse Romanoff rails against
delays
(By Becca Blond, The Colorado Independent, 2/12/10)
Business
groups challenge EPA finding on greenhouse gases (By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post - Post Carbon, 2/12/10)
Snowstorm
and climate change: After a dumping in the Washington area, critics are delighting in the
irony, and supporters are saying the snow fits the pattern of global warming. (By Jim Tankersley, The Baltimore Sun,
2/12/10)
Guest
post: The post-Copenhagen view of U.S. climate policy in Europe (By Eric
Berger, The Houston Chronicle - The Sci Guy Blog, 2/12/10)
More
Green Attack Ads (By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post - Post Carbon, 2/11/10)
Climate
science emails cannot destroy argument that world is warming, and humans are
responsible: Climate science can no longer afford to be a closed shop or
over-simplify the complexities of a changing climate if it is to reclaim
credibility (By Fred Pearce, The [UK] Guardian, 2/9/10)
U.S.
Proposes new climate service (By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post, 2/9/10)
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