USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week
of March 25, 2013
News
from Across the USM Campuses
March 29th - Dr. Megan
Heckert?Swarthmore, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr Colleges - "Greening vacant land
to promote revitalization and sustainability: Synergies and trade-offs at urban
and neighborhood scales." Seminar will be held on Friday at 2:00pm in
the Technology Research Center, Room 206, on the UMBC campus. Event is free and
open to the public, and 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 seminar.
April 15th - 16th - Smart and
Sustainable Campuses Conference - Colleges and universities are
incubators of innovation, tackling the biggest challenges of society through
creative means. The 2013 Smart and Sustainable Campuses Conference provides the
setting to learn, share and explore how campuses are using their passion for
innovation to develop technologies, infrastructure, programs and curricula that
address the world's most pressing sustainability challenges.
April 27th - Towson
University's 5th Annual Environmental Conference - The annual
conference addresses the impact of individuals and communities on the
environment and actions that individuals and communities can take to positively
impact the environment and create a more sustainable world. The conference is
designed to raise awareness among students, faculty and staff about
environmental topics, issues and solutions. Each year members of the campus
community gather to hear presentations from faculty, students and environmental
leaders in the Baltimore region.
State
of Maryland News
"Bottle"
bill dies in House: Beverage industry, retailers fought measure favored by
environmentalists (By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 3/25/13)
House
approves higher gas tax, sending bill to Senate: Increase in 23.5-cent rate
would be first since 1992 (By Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun, 3/22/13)
Energy
Administration Announces "EVnomics" Electric versus Gas Vehicle Commuter Cost
Calculator (Maryland Energy Administration, Press Release, 3/18/13) [PDF]
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National
and International News
Scientists
link frozen spring to dramatic Arctic sea ice loss: Melting sea ice, exposing huge parts of the ocean to the atmosphere,
explains extreme weather both hot and cold (By
John Vidal, The [UK] Guardian, 3/25/13)
Protests
against tar-sands pipelines heat up in U.S. and Canada (By Susie Cagle,
Grist.org, 3/25/13)
Earth
Hour 2013 celebrations around the world - in pictures: From Colombo to the Kremlin, major landmarks, businesses and households
in cities around the world turned their lights off for one hour at 8.30pm on
Saturday 23 March to raise awareness about climate change and show support for
renewable energy (The [UK] Guardian, 3/25/13)
Confronting a Senate
Beholden to 'Big Oil': An update on the battle to stop the Keystone XL pipeline
(By Bill McKibben, 350.org as reported by CommonDreams.org, 3/24/13)
Green
Job Growth Outpaced All Other Industries 2010 - 2011 (By Ryan Grenoble, The
Huffington Post - Green Blog, 3/20/13 updated 3/21/13)
Climate
Science Denier Leads House Science Subcommittee (By Rebecca Leber,
ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress Blog, 3/20/13)
Why
Obama's Major Plans for Climate and Energy Are a Major Disappointment:
Unfortunately Obama's "all of the above" energy strategy relies on
more dangerous fuels and is based on bogus information that reads like gas
industry PR. (By Ted Glick, GlobalPossibilities.org and Alternet.org -
Environment Blog, 3/20/13)
Real
market forces now drive action on climate change: After years of frustration, circumstances are shifting from a global
climate treaty serving as the sole impetus (By
Graciela Chichilnisky, The [UK] Guardian, 3/18/13)
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