USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week
of August 5, 2013
News
from Across the USM Campuses
Is
Maryland Paying a Disproportionate Cost for Climate Change? (Reported by
Sheilah Kast, NPR - WYPR - Maryland Morning, 7/30/13) [Interview with Dr.
Donald F. Boesch, President of the University of Maryland Center for
Environmental Science]
Farmers' Market at
Maryland - The market is located in front of Cole Field House, on the
University of Maryland, College Park campus, and is open on Wednesdays from
11am - 3pm.
State
of Maryland News
August 9th
Deadline - K-12
Environmental Education Mini Grant - The Chesapeake Bay Trust Mini Grant
Program supports activities such as Meaningful Watershed Educational
Experiences (MWEE), teacher professional development and programs to advance
environmental literacy in the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers and streams.
(The Chesapeake Bay Trust)
How
Maryland's New Climate Plan Could Actually Lower Energy Costs (By Jeff
Spross, ThinkProgress.org - ?Climate Progress Blog, 7/31/13)
National
and International News
ELF
Bike-Car Hybrid: Solar-Paneled Vehicle Is The Bike Of The Future? (VIDEO)
(By Valerie Bonk, The Huffington Post - GreenBlog, 7/31/13)
A
Nation On Fire: Climate Change And The Burning Of America (By Tom Kenworthy,
ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress Blog, 7/31/13)
EPA
chief: preventing climate change the opportunity of a lifetime - Gina McCarthy
signals she is ready for political fight in optimistic first speech as head of
US environmental agency (The Associated Press as reported by The [UK]
Guardian, 7/30/13)
US Cities Under Water:
New Study Shows Flooded Future - Climate Crisis Threaten to Flood Hundreds of
Coastal Cities (By Common Dreams staff, CommonDreams.org, 7/30/13)
BP's
Deepwater compensation fund running dry: Company raises estimate of
compensation claims to $9.6bn in second quarter and ups overall provision for
oil spill to $42.4bn (By Angela Monaghan, The [UK] Guardian, 7/30/13)
Tar
Sands Oil Has Been Leaking Into Alberta For 10 Weeks And No One Knows How To
Stop It (By Katie Valentine and Ryan Koronowski, ThinkProgress.org -
Climate Progress Blog, 7/29/13)
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