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Week of May 05, 2008

News from Across the USM Campuses

Diamondback Staff Editorial: The Way The Wind Blows (The Editorial Staff, The Diamondback Online, 5/2/08)

Patuxent River Given D-minus [Report conducted by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and the Patuxent Riverkeeper] (By Andy Zieminski, The Gazette.Net, 5/1/08)

Different Water Sources Sought for UMES, ECI (By Liz Holland, Delmarva Now Online, 5/1/08)

Green Energy Tests to Begin (By Jad Sleiman, The Diamondback Online, 5/1/08)

Colleges Target Trays for Waste (Article cites Frostburg State University) (By Carolyn Potts, The Badger Herald, 4/30/08)

Big Issue: A Greener Campus....And More (By Tom Ventsias, Between The Columns - University of Maryland, College Park, 4/8/08)

State of Maryland News

Going Phosphate Free (Sun Editorial, The Baltimore Sun, 5/1/08)

The Well-Manicured Lawn: A Global Menace (By Andrew McBee, The Baltimore Sun, 5/1/08)

Farm Bill May Help the Bay (By Matthew Hay Brown and Tom Pelton, The Baltimore Sun, 4/29/08) 

Montgomery Aims to Make Green Homes Mandatory (By Ann E. Marimow, The Washington Post, 4/23/08)

National and International News

Fight Global Warming Block By Block: Across U.S., Communities Rethink How They Operate and Grow (By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post, 5/4/08)

Fees would turn UCLA green: Students will vote on a referendum that would fund environmental projects with a $4 increase (By Julia Stephanides, The Daily Bruin, 5/1/08)

Bowdoin gets "Maine-Stream" Wind Power (By Jake Kulju, EcoLocalizer Maine, 4/29/08)

Energy crunch forces Juneau to conserve: Alaska's capital city cuts back after avalanches damage power lines (Associated Press for MSNBC.com, 4/29/08)

Devastated By Tornado, Kansas Town Rebuilds on Green Plan (AFP-Google News, 4/20/08)

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