November, 2007

News from Across the USM Campuses

Governor O'Malley Marks Opening of the New Camille Kendall Academic Center at the Universities at Shady Grove  - Center is the University System's Newest "Green" Building (From the University System of Maryland, 11/9/07)

Building a Sustainable America - One Community at a Time (by Susan Ackerman for the Environmental Protection Agency, 11/8/07) [$275,000 grant awarded to University of Maryland College Park]

It's easy being green (By Carrie Wells, The Diamondback, University of Maryland, College Park, 11/5/07)

State of Maryland News

Climate change already affecting Bay, experts say (by Karl Blankenship, The Bay Journal, November 2007)

USM Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Initiative

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

Students teach students to waste less on campus (By G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Special for USA TODAY, 11/4/07)

All the Grass Is Brown (and the Skies Aren't Gray) (From Inside Higher Ed, 11/6/07)

Environmentalists march on Capitol (By Hon Lung Chu for the Duke Chronicle, 11/6/07)