USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week
of June 13, 2011
News
from Across the USM Campuses
June 17th
- Rooftop
Garden Summer Work Party - South Campus
Dining Hall, second floor; University
of Maryland, College Park - Join the students of UMD Rooftop
Community Gardens to help build the garden on the roof of the South Campus
Dining Hall.
June 18th - Gardening
Workshop and Drawing for 10 Free Rain Barrels - 10am-noon, Davis Hall, 9217 51st Avenue, College Park, MD 20740 - One-hour
workshop on Water Conservation and Gardens, including seven basic principles to
ensure that you save water, money and time. Kimberley M. Knox-community
outreach manager for the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC),
coordinator of WSSC's native-plant demonstration garden, member of the
Beltsville Garden Club, and editor of Landscaping for Water Conservation:
Xeriscape! To Register: Please
email janiso@erols.com or call Elisa
Vitale at 240-487-3538, X2.
August 20th - Campus
Sustainability Case Studies - National Wildlife Federation - Campus Ecology has been helping individuals and campuses address
sustainability and climate change since 1989, and our members have been making
a difference. We have their stories to prove it. Campus Ecology gathers these
case studies to document and celebrate the great work being done at colleges
and universities across the country, and to help others learn from these
projects. Campus Ecology is currently accepting case studies for the 2010-2011
academic year. Case studies are
due August 20, 2011.
Terps
Win Maryland Green Registry Leadership Award [PDF] - The Maryland Green Registry Leadership Awards recognize organizations
that have shown a strong commitment to the implementation of sustainable
practices, the demonstration of measurable results, and the continuous
improvement of environmental performance. Read here how these award winners
achieved their environmental successes and continue to move their organization
forward along the path to sustainability.
In
UMBC power outage, students turn to games, conversation: Students discover talking and other low-tech
pastimes during days-long power outage on campus (By Laura Vozzella, The Baltimore Sun,
6/6/11)
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State
of Maryland News
Coal
exports through port booming: Asian
demand for fuel turns bay into parking lot (By Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun,
6/11/11)
Taste:
Urban foraging takes root: Locavores
shop parks and yards for fresh greens and other wild foods (By Laura Vozzella, The Baltimore Sun,
6/6/11)
O'Malley
orders Marcellus shale study (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun,
6/6/11)
National
and International News
Best
news of the year: Solar-power costs plunge (By Jay Hancock, The Baltimore
Sun - Jay Hancock's Blog, 6/10/11)
Montana
Overwhelmed With Flooding, Supplies Ferried In; Western States To Receive Aid
(By Matthew Brown and Stephen Dockery, The Associated Press as reported by The
Huffington Post, 6/10/11)
Divided
OPEC Losing Control of Oil Market (By Patrick Allen, CNBC.com, 6/10/11)
Worldwide
Oil Demand Outweighs OPEC's Present Supply: Report (The Huffington Post -
Business Blog, 6/10/11)
Summers
Are Going To Get Hotter, Stanford Scientists Say (By Joanna Zelman, The Huffington Post -
Green Blog, 6/9/11)
Key
regulator: Speculators swamping oil, grain markets (By Kevin G. Hall,
McClatchy Newspapers, 6/9/11)
Mitt
Romney Attacked For Being Reasonable About Climate Change (The Huffington
Post, 6/9/11)
The
Gas is Greener (By Robert Bryce, The New York Times - Op Ed Contributor,
6/7/11)
Roundup
Birth Defects: Regulators Knew World's Best-Selling Herbicide Causes Problems,
New Report Finds (By Lucia Graves, The Huffington Post - Green Blog,
6/7/11)
Opponents
Of EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulation Dominate TV News Coverage (The Huffington
Post - Green Blog, 6/7/11)
Australian
climate scientists receive death threats: Universities move staff into safer accommodation
after a large number of threatening emails and phone calls (By Oliver Milman, The [UK] Guardian, 6/6/11)
Ray
LaHood Dons Helmet And Bikes To Work (The Huffington Post - Politics Blog,
6/6/11)
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