USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week
of October 10, 2011
News
from Across the USM
Campuses
Oct. 19th - Celebrate
Campus Sustainability Day at Towson University - Campus Sustainability Day is dedicated to raising awareness for campus
environmental initiatives and supporting cross-departmental, cross-disciplinary
campus planning for sustainability. This year, Towson University is
celebrating Sustainability Day on Wednesday, October 19 with a range of
programs and events. Help support Campus Sustainability Day by coming to the
events above and taking a few moments to discuss sustainability with your
colleagues or students. You can share also your thoughts on campus sustainability
on the Go Green Facebook page,
https://www.facebook.com/TowsonGoesGreen for a chance to win a gift
card to the University Store.
Nov. 10th - Environmental
Excellence in Health Care: Measuring Success. Join regional and national health care professionals, environmental
industry experts, and educators for this learning and networking event designed
to showcase the measurement practices of hospitals as they journey toward more
sustainable environments for hospital staff, patients, and communities. This event will be held from 7:30am - 4:15pm at the
University of Maryland School of Nursing, located at 655 W. Lombard St., Baltimore, MD, 21201
State
of Maryland
Red
Line to receive faster federal review: East-west
rail project among 14 chosen nationwide (By Michael Dresser and John Fritze, The Baltimore Sun, 10/10/11)
MD's
bottled water curb "disappointing" to industry (By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More
Green Blog, 10/6/11)
Annapolis
electric-vehicle charging business grows: Company
gets order to produce 1,500 stations (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 10/5/11)
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National
and International News
Professor
says state agency censored article (By Harvey
Rice, Houston Chronicle, 10/10/11)
Portland
Cyclists Log A Million Bike Commute Miles (A Month) (By A.K. Streeter,
Treehugger.com - Cars and Transportation Blog, 10/10/11)
Arrivederci,
automobile! (By Mark Halper, SmartPlanet.com, 10/9/11)
Climate
Change A Concern For European Citizens, Poll Finds (By Don Melvin, The Huffington
Post - Green Blog, 10/7/11)
Melting
Arctic ice clears the way for supertanker voyages: Scandinavian shipowners say cargo routes
through the Arctic, made possible by warmer temperatures, would save money and
emissions (By John Vidal, The [UK] Guradian, 10/5/11)
Why
Conservative White Males Are More Likely to Be Climate Skeptics (By Julia
Pyper, ClimateWire as reported by The New York Times, 10/5/11)
Who's
Bankrolling the Climate-Change Deniers? (By Bryan Walsh, Time Magazine -
Going Green, 10/4/11)
Clark
College site certified gold for energy efficiency (By Tom Vogt, The
Columbian, 10/4/11)
2011 Arctic
Ozone Loss 'Unprecedented' (Environmental News Service, 10/3/11)
Do
You Live in an 'Eco Neighborhood'? (By Kaid Benfield, The Atlantic -
Cities, 10/3/11)
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