USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week of
December 10, 2007
News From
Across the USM Campuses
Students
brave cold for renewable energy (by Pat Moehrle, The Diamondback,
University of Maryland College Park, 12/7/07)
Amid snowfall, students call for action on global
warming (by Kelsey Volkmann, The Examiner, 12/6/07)
State of Maryland News
Gansler:
Chesapeake Bay in 'crisis' (By Luke Broadwater, The Examiner, 12/10/07)
Troubled
tributary: Runoff, growth turn the Choptank into Md.'s second-most polluted
river By Rona Kobell, Baltimore Sun Reporter, 12/9/07)
Bay at a
‘crossroads,' regional leaders say Environmental summit fears help is overdue
and more harm is on the way (By Sean R. Sedam for Gazette.net, 12/7/07)
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Wind power firm wants to use state forests for wind
farm (The Associated Press, 12/6/07)
Draft Report Suggests
Cutting Emissions by 90% by 2050 (By David Fahrenthold, Washington Post, 12/5/07)
Drastic
action on warming: Governor's panel urges that Md. take steps to slash pollution
90% (By Tom Pelton, Sun Reporter, The Baltimore Sun, 12/5/07)
National News
Colleges
Strain to Reach Climate Friendly Future (By Richarf Monastersky,
The Chronicle of Higher Education, from
the issue dated 12/14/07) Article available to non-subscribers
through 12/14/07
The Nobel Lecture given
by The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2007, Al Gore (Oslo, Norway, 12/10/07)
In Bali, developing
nations push for climate aid (By Peter N. Spotts, Christian Science
Monitor, 12/7/07)
Severe
Storms Becoming More Frequent (By Frank D. Roylance, Sun Reporter, The
Baltimore Sun, 12/5/07)
Thunder, Hail, Fire: What Does
Climate Change Mean for the U.S.? (By David Biello,
Scientific American, 12/5/07)
A dirty climate solution (By
Steven I. Apfelbaum and John Kimble, The Baltimore Sun, Op-Ed, 12/4/07)
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