USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week
of September 17, 2012
News
from Across the USM Campuses
Oct. 1st - Project Green
Challenge 2012 - This is a
global call to action for high school and college students to transition from
conventional to conscious living. It
successfully engages youth by uniting them in a commitment to sustain a healthy
and just planet. Comprised of 30 challenges in 30 days throughout the month of
October, PGC presents participants with daily themes (body, food, labeling,
paper, fair trade, energy...) and up to four challenge opportunities at varying
levels of engagement. Participants are awarded points based on challenge
completion and the top 20 daily submissions receive prizes. We are finalizing
outreach, prizes, challenges, and a robust digital platform with our small
staff, dozens of volunteers, a web team of students and adults collaborating
from Canada, India, Bangladesh, China, and Northern and Southern California.
It's an extraordinary initiative on every front!
Oct. 13th - Chesapeake
and Beyond - Horn Point Open House - The Horn Point Laboratory invites the
public to take part in its annual community Open House on Saturday, from 10:00
a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Located on the banks of the Choptank River on Maryland's
Eastern Shore, the laboratory is renowned for its study of marine ecosystems. The
theme of this year's event is "The Bay and Beyond" and features
investigations by the laboratory's scientists in the Chesapeake Bay and coastal
areas around the nation and the world. The Horn Point Laboratory is located at
2020 Horns Point Road in Cambridge. For more information, call (410) 221-8425.
Think
Green, Get Green - Apply for the University Sustainability Fund by November 1st
- Got a green idea? Cash in on it! We could give you the money you need to
implement your sustainability project on campus. Over the past two years,
$290,000 has been given out to students, staff, and faculty to enhance
sustainability at University of Maryland, College Park.
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State
of Maryland News
Oct. 6th - 13th - From
the Bay, For the Bay Dine Out is Back! Governor Martin O'Malley today
announced the return of the From the Bay, For the Bay Dine Out, a week-long
celebration of Maryland
seafood benefiting the Oyster Recovery Partnership. More than 70 high-profile
restaurants have already signed up, including Ryleigh's Oyster House, Woodberry
Kitchen, Equinox, and Matchbox. Last year's inaugural promotion proved a
success, raising $25,000 for oyster restoration projects.
Warm
fall expected: Meteorologists say region has seen above-normal temperatures
(By Sam Speigelman, DelMarVaNow.com, 9/14/12)
Gas
prices hit unusual mid-September spike (By Melany L. Paralman, DelMarVaNow.com, 9/14/12)
National
and International News
Arctic Sea Ice Will
Reach 'Final Collapse' Within Four Years: Expert (By Common Dreams Staff,
CommonDreams.org, 9/17/12)
As
climate change crisis looms, presidential campaigns stay quiet (By Erika
Bolstad, McClatchy News, 9/17/12)
Campaigners
'Vindicated' As Shell Halts Arctic Drilling
A series of safety
failures, ice floes, and public pressure has put an end to this year's drilling (By Common Dreams staff,
CommonDreams.org, 9/17/12)
Financial
Costs of Climate Change Seriously Underestimated by US Government Calculations
(By Mat McDermott, Treehugger.com - Business/Economics, 9/17/12)
False
Balance Lives: In Worst Climate Story Of The Year, PBS Channels Fox News (By
Joe Romm, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress, 9/17/12)
Vanishing
Arctic ice is the planet's white flag of surrender: The planet's last great
global ice melt left a benign and balmy climate in which civilisation was
cradled: the new great melting heralds a grave threat to civilization (By
Damian Carrington, The [UK] Guardian, 9/14/12)
Saving
the Ozone Layer: Lessons for Fighting Climate Change (By Frances Beinecke,
Huffington Post - Green Blog, 9/14/12)
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