USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week of January 31, 2011
News from Across the USM Campuses
Feb. 1st - Purple Line Town Hall
Meeting Reminder - From 4-6pm in the Colony Ballroom, on the second floor of the
Stamp Student Union. Faculty, staff, students and members of the community are
invited to a town hall meeting, hosted by the President's Office, to discuss
the Purple Line light rail system. The proposed transit line would run
between Bethesda and New Carrollton, passing through Silver Spring, Takoma
Park, the College Park campus, and Riverdale. Following short formal
presentations, questions, suggestions, and comments from the audience will be
welcomed. Because of limited time, questions and comments need to be kept
to two minutes. Proceedings of this forum can also be viewed live via web
stream (please check www.umd.edu on Feb. 1
for the streaming link), and a videotape of the meeting will be posted on the
University website. Those who cannot attend the meeting can also submit
their comments to president@umd.edu.
Feb. 1st
- Julie
Gabrielli, NCARB, LEED-AP, founder GoforChange, green business consultants - "The Global
Importance of Sustainability" - This
event will be held at 5pm in the Lecture Hall of the School of Architecture,
Planning and Preservation, on the University of Maryland, College Park campus.
This lecture is a part of the Sustainable Tuesdays Lecture Series.
Feb. 4th - Dr. Elie Bou-Zeid,
Princeton University?- "Experimental and
Numerical Investigations of Coupled Energy and Water Transport in the Built
Environment." This seminar,
sponsored by the Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, will be
held on Friday at 2:00pm in the Technology Research Center, Room 206, on the
University of Maryland, Baltimore County 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.
Feb. 6th - April 2nd - 2011 Recyclemania event
- Several USM campuses are participating
in this event: Bowie State University,
Frostburg State
University, Salisbury
University, Towson
University, University of Maryland
Baltimore County, and University
of Maryland College Park.
Environmentalists,
oil industry seek mention of Gulf oil spill (By Gerard Shields, The
Advocate, 1/25/11) [Dr. Donald F. Boesch, President of the University of
Maryland Center for Environmental Science, is a member of President Obama's
Gulf Oil Spill Commission]
UMES
research examines aspects of water quality (By Corrie Cotton,
DelMarVaNow.com, 1/25/11)
Researchers
find virus plaguing soft-crab businesses: With
Dundalk crabbers' help, discovery may boost sales, ease harvest pressure (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun,
1/24/11)[Article quotes Eric Schott of the University of Maryland Center for
Environmental Science]
Battles
Over Mountaintop Coal Mining Rage in Wake of EPA Veto (By Paul Quinlan,
Greenwire as reported by The New York Times - Energy and Environment, 1/24/11)[Article quotes Margaret Palmer of the
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]
State
of Maryland News
Healing
Baltimore's harbor: A movement is under
way to purge the trash, bacteria and pollution that have long infected the
city's heart (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 1/30/11)
Pepco
struggles to end power outages (By Joe Stephens, The Washington Post,
1/31/11)
Chesapeake
Bay Foundation spent extra to make its headquarters eco-friendly (By Darryl
Fears, The Washington Post, 1/25/11)
Md. University
Fined For Air Pollution: Mount St. Mary's Faces $40K Fine (WBALTV.com,
1/25/11)
Solar
panel leasing for homes, businesses coming to Maryland: California firm acquires Clean Currents solar unit (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun,
1/24/11)
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National
and International News
Unrest
in Egypt Unsettles Global Markets (By Nelson D. Schwartz, The New York
Times as reported by Yahoo News, 1/31/11)
Arctic
Current Warmest In Over 2,000 Years, Warning Of Ice-Free Seas (Reuters as
reported by Huffington Post - Green Blog, 1/31/11)
New
Electricity Meters Stir Fears (By Felicity Barrenger, The New York Times - Environment, 1/30/11)
IEA
calls on OPEC to be flexible, watch Egypt (By Dmitry Zhdannikov, editing by Mike Peacock, Reuters, 1/29/11)
Gulf
Oil Spill Blowout Preventer Testing Could Be Compromised (By Harry R.
Weber, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 1/28/11)
Ban
Ki-moon: World's economic model is 'environmental suicide': UN secretary
general tells Davos panel that an economic revolution is needed to save the
planet as he shifts his focus from climate change to sustainability (The Associated Press as reported by The [UK] Guardian - Environment,
1/28/11)
Arctic Defrost Dumping Snow on
U.S. and Europe: The world's northern freezer is on rapid defrost as large volumes of warm
water are pouring into the Arctic Ocean, speeding the melt of sea ice,
according to a new study. (By Stephen Leahy, IPS News, 1/28/11)
Loss
Of Solar Jobs Has Mass. Rethinking State Aid (By Tovia Smith, NPR - Morning
Edition, 1/28/11)
No,
clean energy is not a substitute for climate change - Grist: President Obama
talked about clean energy in his state of the union address, but avoided
climate change. Than strategy won't work in tackling the climate challenge,
Says David Roberts (By David Roberts, Grist.org as reported by The [UK]
Guardian, 1/28/11)
Gulf
Oil Spill Fund Fraudulent Claims Top 7,000 (Brian Skoloff and Harry R.
Weber, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 1/27/11)
CU: Warming water in the
North Atlantic tied to heating Arctic (By Laura Snider, The Boulder Daily
Camera, 1/27/11)
BREAKING:
In a stunning reversal, USDA chief Vilsack greenlights Monsanto's alfalfa
(By Tom Phillpot, Grist.org, 1/27/11)
Obama
touts "clean" energy, skips climate change (By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More
Green Blog, 1/26/11)
Study
finds oil dispersants lingered deep under Gulf (By Renee Schoof, McClatchy
Newspapers, 1/26/11)
Climate
sceptic 'misled Congress over funding from oil industry': Patrick Michaels,
fellow at the Cato Institute, claimed 3% of his funding came from industry,
later revealed that figure to be 40% (By Suzanne
Goldenberg, The [UK] Guardian - Environment, 1/25/11)
100
Percent Renewable Energy Achievable By 2030: Study (By Joanna Zelman, The
Huffington Post - Green Blog, 1/25/11)
Penn
State to Dump Coal for Natural Gas (By Scott Carlson, The Chronicle of
Higher Education, 1/25/11)
State
Of The Union 2011: Obama's Clean Energy Promises (By Amy Lee, The
Huffington Post - Business Blog, 1/25/11)
Video:
Tree Harvesting for a Sustainable Project at University of Vermont (By
Scott Carlson, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1/25/11)
Newt
Gingrich: EPA Should Be Eliminated (By Mike Glover, The Huffington Post -
Politics Blog, 1/25/11)
OVERNIGHT
ENERGY: Energy on the Senate agenda, House Energy panel to unveil EPA bill in a
month (By Andrew Restuccia and Ben Geman, The Hill, 1/24/11)
Chevron
Accused Of 'World's Worst Oil-Related Disaster' In Ecuador: Alleged Evidence
Submitted In Lawsuit (PHOTOS) (By Joanna Zelman, The Huffington Post -
Green Blog, 1/24/11)
Welcome
to the year of living dangerously: Are riots, protests, revolts, mounting oil prices,
and mammoth worldwide unemployment the new norm? (By Michael T. Klare, Salon - News,
1/24/11)
Director of
Policy on Climate Will Leave, Her Goal Unmet (By John M. Broder, The New
York Times - Politics, 1/24/11)
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