USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week
of October 14, 2013
News
from Across the USM Campuses
Maryland
Gov. O'Malley touts huge Chesapeake Bay oyster planting: Population remains far
from its highest levels (DelawareOnline.com, 10/12/13)
Conference
highlights need for environmental planning (By Shauna Thompson,
MyEasternShoreMD.com, 10/7/13)
Students
Take Top Prize for Intelligent Trashcan (UMD Right Now, 10/7/13)
State
of Maryland News
Governor
O'Malley Receives National Environmental Education Award (AccessDNR, Maryland
Department of Natural Resources, 10/11/13)
State
Officials Comment on Climate Change Effects at Eastern Shore Land
Conservancy Conference (Conduit Street, Maryland Association of
Counties, 10/9/13)
DNR
Hosts More Than 50 Day to Serve Events (Maryland Department of Natural Resources,
DNR News, 10/8/13)
National
and International News
Think
a New Economy Is Possible? Meet the Man Already Making it Happen
Rob
Hopkins helped start the first Transition Town. Now it's a global network of
thousands of communities showing no signs of slowing down. (By Tara Lohan, Alternet.org -
Environment Blog, 10/14/13)
US Court: Transcanada's
Keystone XL Profits More Important than Environment (By Steve Horn, DeSmog
Blog as reported by CommonDreams.org, 10/14/13)
Study
links warmer water temperatures to greater levels of mercury in fish (By
Darryl Fears, The Washington Post - Health and Science, 10/13/13)
Bowdoin
College Solar Panel Installation Will Be Largest In Maine (By James Gerken,
The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 10/11/13)
An
Unprecedented Antarctic Disaster, Unfolding in Darkness (By Jonathan Lilly,
The Huffington Post - Science Blog, 10/11/13)
Nearly
70 percent of Fox climate pundits doubt global warming (By Chris Mooney,
Grist.org, 10/10/13)
Climate
Change Will Bring Conditions Outside Historical Variability In Coming Decades
(By Andrew Freeman, Climate Central as reported by The Huffington Post - Green
Blog, 10/9/13)
Are Utility Companies
Out to Destroy Solar's 'Rooftop Revolution'? In California, customers who
install solar systems and battery arrays are finding themselves cut off from
grid (By Jon Queally, CommonDreams.org, 10/9/13)
L.A.
Times Says It Won't Publish Letters Pushing Climate Denial And Other ‘Errors Of
Fact'. Deniers Object. (By Joe Romm, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress
Blog, 10/9/13)
A
New Study Calculates the Year Climate Change Will Hit Your City
(Smithsonian.com - Surprising Science Blog, 10/9/13)
Al
Gore: The Media Is 'Frightened to Death' of Talking About Climate Change
(By Emma Green, The Atlantic Cities Blog, 10/8/13)
PETM
Shocker: When CO2 Levels Doubled 55 Million Years Ago, Earth May Have Warmed
9°F In 13 Years (By Joe Romm, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress Blog,
10/8/13)
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