USM National Green Campus
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USM Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Initiative |
Smart
Growth incentives fail to rein in suburban sprawl (By Timothy B. Wheeler,
The Baltimore Sun, 11/3/09) [Article quotes Gerrit-Jan Knaap, Director of the
Smart Growth Research Center at the University of Maryland, College Park]
Environment: Horn Point researcher received international award (DelMarVaNow.com, 11/2/09) [Michael Kemp, a University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point lab researcher, recently received the Odum Lifetime Achievement Award from the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation.] Student Internship - Build Straw Bale Homes in Moab, Utah this Spring - Are you graduating a semester early or a semester late? Are you looking for an internship for next semester? Do you just want to take some time off and have a life-changing experience? My name is Noah Aptekar and I am working for an affordable housing nonprofit called Community Rebuilds based in Moab, UT. We are just getting off the ground and I wanted to invite you to be one of our interns while we build our FIRST home for a deserving low-income family in Moab, UT, from January 15-May 30, 2010. Our application and recommendation forms can be found on our website: www.communityrebuilds.org.
State of Maryland News Coalition decries Charles connector: Foes say highway will bring sprawl Environmental hazards feared (By Christy Goodman, The Washington Post, 11/8/09) 'Smart growth': A start or a failure? (The Washington Post - Letters to the Editor, 11/8/09) Cardin, other Dems move climate bill in Senate (By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 11/5/09) Maryland, other states warned about bay cleanup: EPA presses for detailed plans to cut pollution (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 11/5/09) Annapolis considers 'renewable energy park': Old landfill would use methane, sunlight, yard waste to generate electricity (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 11/4/09) America's most toxic cities - where's Baltimore? (By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 11/3/09) National and International News Japan eyes solar station in space (By Karyn Poupee, AFP as reported on Yahoo News, 11/8/09) As oceans fall ill, Washington bureaucrats squabble (By Les Blumenthal, McClatchy Newspapers as reported on Yahoo News, 11/8/09) Chemicals in Our Food, and Bodies (By Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times - Op Ed, 11/8/09) Climate legislation benefits are real (The Washington Post - Letter to the Editor, 11/7/09) Painting a street green hasn't stimulated one new job: Energy-efficiency investments Tangible gains still ahead for $25 billion initiative (By Alec MacGillis, The Washington Post, 11/7/09) Ecosystem in Peru Is Losing a Key Ally (By Simon Romero, The New York Times, 11/7/09) Creating a Landfill to have Cleaner Air (By The Associated Press as reported in The New York Times, 11/7/09) Environmental groups at odds over new tack in climate fight: Some favor playing down threat, focusing on bill's positives (By David A. Fahrenthold, The Washington Post, 11/6/09) Shell Oil to pay $19.5M in environmental fines (By The Associated Press as reported in The Washington Post, 11/6/09) LED Lighting Contest (Interview by Ira Flatow, National Public Radio - Science Friday, 11/6/09) LED Lighting Contest (Science Friday - National Public Radio, 11/6/09)[Audio] Dominican Republic town blames U.S. firm for birth defects: A small Dominican Republic town plagued by birth defects wants to know if a U.S. power company is to blame. (By Frances Robles, The Miami Herald, 11/5/09) China, Coal and Climate Change (The Diane Rehm Show - National Public Radio, 11/5/09) [Audio] Toward a Stalemate in Copenhagen: How Industry Pressures and National Agendas Dim Prospects for a Climate Treaty (By Marianne Lavelle, The Center for Public Integrity, 11/4/09) Colorado's vast beetle-kill pine forests threaten power grid: Experts seek to head off disaster with green solutions (By David. G. Williams, The Colorado Independent, 11/3/09) Lobbying cash obscures US climate debate: When it comes to the debate in the United States over what to do about climate change, cash may very well have clouded the issue. (By Kerry Sheridan, The [UK] Telegraph, 11/3/09) Senate Republicans boycott climate bill (By Foon Rhee, The Boston Globe, 11/3/09) Snows Of Kilimanjaro Shrinking Rapidly, And Likely To Be Lost (Science Daily, 11/3/09) BPA found in food packaging: Plastic hardener linked to increased cancer risk (By Andrew Zajac, The Spokesman-Review, 11/3/09) |