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Week of April 25, 2011

News from Across the USM Campuses

April 26th - May 4th - Ignite UMD: Sustainovate 2011 - The University of Maryland is offering a variety of sustainability events from movies, to lectures to conferences.

FSU's Wind and Solar Energy Program Highlighted in New ARC Report (FSU News Release, 4/22/11)

Princeton Review Again Names SU a 'Green College' (Salisbury University Press Release, 4/20/11)

Oil spill commissioners touch raw nerves at anniversary event (By David Hammer, The Times-Picayune, 4/19/11)[Dr. Donald F. Boesch is President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and was a member of President Obama's Gulf Oil Spill Commission]

For many in Louisiana, the real disaster of 2010 wasn't the oil spill but the drilling moratorium (By The Times-Picayune Staff, 4/19/11)[Dr. Donald F. Boesch is President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and was a member of President Obama's Gulf Oil Spill Commission]

Commons goes single stream: Resident Life continues test (By Claire Saravia, The Diamondback Online, 4/19/11)

Pharmacy Hall Addition Strikes LEED Gold (University of Maryland Office of Communications, 4/19/11)

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Chesapeake Bay grasses decline, new report says (The Baltimore Sun - Maryland Politics, 4/22/11)

Gas prices rise for 4th straight week to $3.85 (By Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun - Getting There Blog, 4/22/11)

New farms to take root in Baltimore: Officials aim to turn over 10 vacant acres to farmers (By Julie Scharper, The Baltimore Sun, 4/20/11)

Clean energy: Catonsville biofuel firms files to raise $15 million (By Gus Sentementes, The Baltimore Sun - BalTech Blog, 4/20/11)

National and International News

Pennsylvania Fracking Spill: Natural Gas Well Blowout Spills Thousands Of Gallons Of Drilling Fluid (VIDEO) (The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 4/20/11)

Texas wildfires creep closer to Dallas area (By Laurie Fox, Reuters, 4/20/11)

BP files suits against gulf rig owner and maker of blowout preventer (By Steven Mufson, The Washington Post - Business, 4/20/11)

Transparent Photovoltaic Cells Turn Windows Into Solar Panels (By John Collins Rudolf, The New York Times - Green Blog, 4/20/11)

The voice of America's frustrated youth, Power Shift, is on its way to the UK: President Obama has given this climate change movement plenty to protest about in the US, now it comes to Europe (The [UK] Guardian - Environment Blog, 4/20/11)

Eco Etiquette: A Year Without BlackBerry (By Jennifer Grayson, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 4/20/11)

Secretary Chu Announces New Funding and Partnership with Google to Promote Electric Vehicles: Since its inception in 1993, DOE's Clean Cities program helped save nearly 3 billion gallons of gasoline (UD Department of Energy Press Release, 4/19/11)

Nil, Baby, Nil: Congress Fails To Pass A Single Oil Spill Law (By Marcus Baram, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 4/19/11)

Climate Change: Doing Nothing Will Cost More Than Preventative Measures, New Report Shows (The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 4/19/11)

BP Marks Gulf Oil Spill Anniversary With Campaign Contributions (By Michael McAuliff, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 4/19/11)

Energy security and environmental change could radically alter society: military report (By Mike DeSouza, The Vancouver Sun, 4/17/11)