USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week
of October 29, 2012
News
from Across the USM Campuses
Nov. 2nd - "Urban Sustainability
and Environmental Justice in Baltimore" - Dr. Chris Boone, School of
Sustainability, Arizona State University. Seminar will be held on Friday at 2pm
in the Technology Research Center, Room 206, on the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County campus, and is free and open to the public. Registration is
not required. Visitor parking passes for the TRC lot may be purchased for $4.00
in the CUERE office in TRC 102/105, on the UMBC campus, shortly before the seminar.
Nov. 2nd - 4th
- College Park
Sustainability Jam - The Center for Social Value Creation is hosting a
weekend long event aimed at creating new, real-world ideas to promote and
advance sustainability. Using the principles of Design Thinking and rapid
Design Prototyping, the College Park Sustainability Jam is part of a global Jam
movement that connects "Jammers" from all backgrounds, levels of
experience, and parts of the world. This event will be held from 5pm on Nov. 2nd
through Nov. 4th at 2pm at the Center for Social Value Creation
located in Van Munching Hall, Suite 2410, on the campus of University of
Maryland, College Park.
University
of Maryland Housekeeping Unit Wins Green Seal Certification (USM Newsdesk,
10/26/12)
State
of Maryland News
New
160-acre solar farm will be largest in Maryland (By Kaustuv Basu, The
Herald-Mail, 10/26/12)
Virginia's
Allen gets flak from fellow Republican in Maryland over energy stance(By
Fredrick Kunkle, The Washington Post - Post Local, 10/25/12)
Frosh:
Majority of Senate would support fracking moratorium (By Alexander Pyles,
The Daily Record, 10/25/12)
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National
and International News
Frankenstorm:
Meteorologist Warns Hurricane Sandy an Outgrowth of Global Warming's Extreme
Weather (By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now as reported by EnergyBulletin.net,
10/29/12)
Smartphone apps allow users
to see critical environmental issues (By Allison Winter, Environmental News
Network, 10/29/12)
Mother
Nature's wake-up call: You won't hear much about climate change during coverage
of Hurricane Sandy. You should. (By Andrew Leonard, Salon.com, 10/29/12)
Will
Hurricane Sandy Get Politicians to Pull their Heads Out of the Sand? (By Dan
Lashof, Natural Resources Defense Council, Switchboard Blog, 10/27/12)
Frankenstorm
2012: Hurricane Sandy Hybrid Could Hit New York, New Jersey And Pennsylvania
(By Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press as reported by The Huffington Post,
10/26/12)
Daily
Disclosure: Chevron gives $2.5 million to conservative super PAC - Corporate
contributions to groups rare (By Rachael Marcus and John Dunbar, Center for
Public Integrity, 10/26/12)
David
Attenborough: US politicians duck climate change because of cost - The
naturalist warned it would take a terrible example of extreme weather to wake
people up to global warming (By Adam Vaughan and Camila Ruz, The [UK]
Guardian, 10/25/12)
Group Petitions EPA
for Fracking Toxicity Data: Environmentalists call for public reporting of
chemicals in oil, gas extraction (By Common Dreams staff, CommonDreams.org,
10/25/12)
Not-So-Permanent
Permafrost: 850 Billion Tons of Carbon Stored in Frozen Arctic Ground Could Be
Released
(Science Daily, 10/25/12)
What
Killed Climate Change Legislation? (By John Hudson, The Atlantic Wire,
10/23/12)
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