Week of February 11, 2008

Presentation on Maryland Student Climate Coalition to the University System of Maryland Board of Regents (February 15, 2008 USM Board of Regents Meeting. Meeting location is the University of Maryland University College, Room 1312 - Public Session begins at 8:30am) 

"Case Studies of LEED Facilities In Our Region" - Sustainable Speaker Series (To be held on February 20, 2008, from 12pm - 1pm, Symons Hall, University of Maryland, College Park)

University of Maryland, College Park -  Eco-Engineering Program - March 8, 2008
(Registration Deadline, Friday, February 29, 2008)

USM Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Initiative

• Practices
• Programs
• Policies

• Presentations (Power Point)
• Climate Change Definitions
• Facilities Master Planning
• Statewide Sustainability Efforts
• ACUPCC National Benchmarking
• Useful Links and References

UMBC works for a greener campus (By Andrea Thomson, Senior Staff Writer, The Retriever Weekly, 2/5/08)

Environmentalists aim to 'Focus' TU: Movies, presentations teach students about global warming (By Samantha Buckley, The Towerlight, 2/4/08)  

FSU accepting applications for wind and solar energy education program (From Staff Reports, Cumberland Times-News, 2/4/08)

Developer gives $3M to launch 'green' real estate program (By Ryan Sharrow Contributing Writer, Washington Business Journal, 2/4/08)

State of Maryland News

Academy Fosters Electric Dream (by David Zenlea, Special to the Baltimore Sun, 2/10/08)

City recycling shows a gain in 1st month of new system (By John Fritze, The Baltimore Sun, 2/6/08)

National and International News

Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You (By Alex Williams, The New York Times, 2/10/08)

Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat  (By Elisabeth Rosenthal, The New York Times, 2/8/08)

Age of "Green Economics" is Upon Us: UN (Reported by Andrew Stern; edited by Stuart Grudgings, Reuters, 2/7/08)

Google to Help Green Technologies Amass Scale (By Nichola Groom, Reuters, 2/6/08)