USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week
of November 18, 2013
News
from Across the USM Campuses
Dec. 4th
- "No
Impact Man" - The TU Office of Sustainability presents the Sustainability
Film series, featuring
recently critically acclaimed documentaries on the most important issues of
this generation.
Environmental
activist Colin Beavan confronts the problem of consumption head on by getting
his family to live for one year with no net environmental impact. They
experiment with living without toilet paper, washer and dryer, refrigerator,
elevators, electric lights and cars. Along the way he finds that the low
consumption life style may be a more joyful one as well. The film begins at 7
p.m. in CLA 2110.
Dec. 4th
- Arboretum:
Public Health Garden, 12-12:45pm, Public Health Garden at the University of
Maryland Arboretum
State
of Maryland News
Howard
County expands composting collection to Clarksville (By
Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 11/15/13)
Meeting
to Air Harbor Point Development Questions: Toxic chromium entombed beneath Fells Point site slated for Exelon
headquarters. (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More
Green Blog, 11/14/13)
National
and International News
Wyoming
Council Rejects Residents' Protests Of Underground Coal Gasification Plant
(By Emily Atkin, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress Blog, 11/18/13)
Developing
countries push for climate change "reparations": Should the industrialized
nations most responsible for global warming compensate those now suffering its
effects? (By Lindsay Abrams, Salon.com - Sustainability Blog, 11/18/13)
Are
we witnessing the start of a global green revolution? Mass environmental
protests are gaining strength. If governments won't take the lead on an
imperiled planet, someone will (By Michael Klare, TomDispatch.com as
reported byThe [UK] Guardian - Environment Blog, 11/18/13)
Ocean acidification set to
spiral out of control: T The continued release of greenhouse gases
into the air is set to bring about huge changes to land ecosystems as they are
forced to adapt to rising temperatures. (By Jan Piotrowski, SciDevNet as
reported by Environmental News Network, 11/15/13)
'Sleepwalking to
Extinction': Capitalism and the Destruction of Life and Earth (By Richard
Smith, Ad Busters as reported by CommonDreams.org, 11/15/13)
How
Whisky Makers Could Soon Be Providing A Superior Biofuel (By Jeff Spross,
ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress Blog, 11/15/13)
'We Believe!' Even
Reddest States Admit Climate Change Real: Though their representatives in
Congress continue to deny it, majority of Conservative voters have no doubt
that warming planet is causing significant changes (By Jon Queally,
CommonDreams.org, 11/14/13)
New Report Unveils
Hidden Cost of Walmart's Climate Damage, Failure to Meet Environmental Target:
Greenpeace, Sierra Club Join with Leading Environmental Organizations Calling
for Change at Walmart Company's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Exceed Those of Many
Countries (Institute for Local Self-Reliance as reported by
CommonDreams.org, 11/13/13)
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