USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week
of August 26, 2013
News
from Across the USM Campuses
Helping
Discover Students' Sustainability Knowledge (UMD Right Now, 8/23/13)
Creating
Next Generation Electric Vehicle Batteries (UMD Right Now, 8/23/13)
Scientists
nearly certain that humans have caused global warming (By Darryl Fears, The
Washington Post - Health & Science, 8/20/13) [Article quotes Dr. Donald F.
Boesch, President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental
Science]
State
of Maryland News
New
network mulls offshore wind: OC's would be first in American waters (By
Jennifer Shutt, DelMarVaNow.com, 8/21/13)
The
importance of Maryland's leadership on climate change (Maryland Department
of the Environment - Climate Change in Maryland, 8/19/13)
New
business network mulls Maryland offshore wind (Green Energy Holding Blog,
8/19/13)
Power
plant proposed for Brandywine (By Steven Mufson, The Washington Post,
8/19/13)
National
and International News
Keystone
XL Decision Likely Delayed Until 2014 (By Kate Sheppard, The Huffington
Post, 8/26/13)
'Unhospitable Oceans'
Acidifying at Rate Unseen in 250 Million Years (or Ever)
New study shows oceans
in peril as acidification is happening at rate perhaps never seen in planet's
history
(By Jon Queally, CommonDreams.org, 8/26/13)
To
meet emissions targets, we've all got to be like France: Experts say the
European nation is the only country even close to cutting greenhouse emissions
in half by 2050(By Kevin Bullis, Salon.com, 8/26/13)
Is
Al Jazeera America going to change the way networks cover climate change?
(By Thomas Stackpole, Grist.org, 8/23/13)
Is
climate change humanity's greatest-ever risk management failure? Humans are
very good at managing risks, except when it comes to the greatest risk we've
faced - climate change (By Danan Nuccitelli, The [UK] Guardian -
Environment Blog, 8/22/13)
Get
Ready For Food Prices To Go Way Up, Thanks To Climate Change (By Jeff
Spross, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress Blog, 8/21/13)
Meet
The 25-Year-Old Prepared To Spend 10 Years In Jail To Stop Coal (By Ari
Phillips, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress Blog, 8/21/13)
'Ecological Debt Day'
Reached: World in Resource Overdraft: We have now overshot the Earth's
resources for the year, meaning all consumption from here borrows from future
generations (Sarah Lazare, CommonDreams.org, 8/20/13)
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