USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week
of October 31, 2011
News
from Across the USM Campuses
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. Keynote
speaker: Christina Vernon, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, senior director, sustainability
and environmental strategy, Office for a Healthy Environment, Cleveland
Clinic. 7:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., School of Nursing. For fees and registration
information, please visit the web site. This event will be held from 7:30 am to 4:15 pm, at the University of Maryland School of Nursing,
located at 655 W. Lombard St., Baltimore, 21201.
Climate
change is real, and action is needed (Editorial by Don Boesch, The
Baltimore Sun, 10/30/11) [Dr. Donald F. Boesch is president of the University
of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]
UMBC
Researchers Develop Sensor for Satellite Climate Change Measurements (UMBC
News Blog Stories, 10/27/11)
State
of Maryland News
Constellation,
Exelon chiefs testify before PSC: Leaders
grilled on first day of merger review before state energy regulators (By Hanah Cho, The Baltimore Sun, 10/31/11)
Clean
Energy Confab in Baltimore (By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More
Green Blog, 10/27/11)
Md.
commission proposes 15-cent increase in gas tax (By Aaron C. Davis, The
Washington Post - Post Local, 10/25/11)
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National
and International News
Oil
Declines in New York, Paring Biggest Monthly Increase Since May 2009 (By Ann Koh, Bloomberg News, 10/31/11)
With
Generators Gone, Wall Street Protesters Try Bicycle Power (By Colin Moynihan, NY/Region, 10/30/11)
Richard
Muller, Global Warming Skeptic, Now Agrees Climate Change Is Real (By Seth
Borenstein, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 10/30/11)
President
Interrupted: Turned off by Obama, young
enviros look to EPA for salvation. (By Olga
Belogolova, The National Journal - Environment, 10/28/11, updated
10/29/11)
What
Do Republicans Have Against Biking and Walking? In these antagonistic political times,
bikers and walkers are now targets of controversy for some members of Congress. (By Jay Walljasper, Alternet.org-
Environment, 10/28/11)
Romney
Remarks on Global Warming Trigger New Claims of Flip-Flopping (By Jonathan
Wiseman, The Wall Street Journal - Washington Wire Blog, 10/28/11)
Koch-funded
global warming proof goes unnoticed: Work bankrolled by the
right-wing magnates finds support for global warming -- too bad the media
doesn't care (By Peter Finocchiaro, Salon.com, 10/27/11)
Interior
outlines plans to speed solar development on public lands (By Juliet
Eilperin, The Washington Post - National, 10/27/11)
Jane
Lubchenco Exclusive: ‘We Don't Fully Understand The Consequences' Of Drilling
The Arctic (By Brad Johnson, Think Progress - Green Blog, 10/25/11)
Durban May Be Last
Chance to Stabilize Climate Under Two Degrees (By Stephen Leahy, Inter Press
Service as reported by CommonDreams.org, 10/24/11)
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