USM National Green Campus
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USM Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Initiative |
Long-anticipated
South Campus Commons apartment building opens: Some students express dissatisfaction with
the new building's amenities (By Ben Present, The Diamondback Online, 1/26/10)
No way to avoid strip mining's dangers (The Virginian-Pilot Editorial, 1/25/10) [Editorial cites research by Margaret Palmer and Keith Eshelman, of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science] Clean energy legislation: Cut the red tape (By Matt Dernoga, The Diamondback Online, 1/25/10) State of Maryland News One Less Car holds annual bike symposium [on February 3, 2010 in Annapolis] (By Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 2/1/10) City cleaning, greening one ticket at a time (By Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 1/29/10) State gets $70 million in federal rail funds (By Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun - Getting There Blog, 1/28/10) GM to build electric motors in White Marsh: Expansion brings 180 jobs, needed boost to economy (By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun, 1/27/10) National and International News 2010 Green Car Vision Award (Awarded at the 2010 Washington Auto Show, January 27-31, 2010 at the Washington E. Walter Convention Center, Washington, DC) An Electric Boost for Bicyclists (By David Goodman, The New York Times, 1/31/10) In Portland, Growing Vertical (By William Yardley, The New York Times, 1/30/10) Obama sets targets on agencies' greenhouse-gas emissions (By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post, 1/30/10) China Leading Global Race to Make Clean Energy (By Keith Bradsher, The New York Times, 1/30/10) Study finds white roofs may cool cities (By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 1/29/10) President Obama Sets Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Target for Federal Operations: Target to Drive Energy Cost Reductions in Federal Operations, Creating Clean Energy Jobs (The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, 1/29/10) European Union Farmers Face Genetic Contamination of Seeds: Biodiversity, already decaying fast as a result of climate change and intensive farming, is under further threat by genetic modification (GM) of seeds, says a leading German ecological activist. (By Julio Godoy, IPS News, 1/29/10) Obama announces $8 billion investment in high-speed train system (CNN Politics, 1/28/10) Obama pitches clean energy in State of the Union (By Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 1/28/10) New study says slowdown in global warming may be the result of less stratospheric water vapor (The Associated Press as reported by The Baltimore Sun, 1/28/10) Environmentalists target Blanche Lincoln (By Lisa Lerer, Politico, 1/28/10) Oil bigs to Obama: Get real (By Adam Lashinsky, CN Money, 1/28/10) Is This Apple Green? (By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 1/28/10) SEC Sets Corporate Climate-Change Disclosure Standard (By Jim Efstathiou Jr., Bloomberg News, 1/27/10) State of the Union: Obama Urges Clean Energy Economy, Plus Nuclear Plants and Offshore Drilling (By Larry West, About.com - Larry's Environmental Issues Blog, 1/27/10) Wind Power Grows 39% for the Year (By Jad Mouawad, The New York Times, 1/26/10) How stimulus saved renewable energy (By Steve Hargreaves, CNN Money, 1/26/10) World's glaciers continue to melt at historic rates: Latest figures show the world's glaciers are continuing to melt so fast that many will disappear by the middle of this century (By Juliette Jowit, The [UK] Guardian, 1/25/10) Dutch spending still rising...on bicycles (By Ben Berkowitz, Reuters, 1/25/10) Sweet Idea: Coke Uses Sugar Cane for Bottles (By David Knowles, AOL News, 1/25/10) Economic growth 'cannot continue': Continuing global economic growth "is not possible" if nations are to tackle climate change, a report by an environmental think-tank has warned. (BBC News, 1/25/10) |