USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week of September 27, 2010
News from Across the USM Campuses
Sept. 30th
- "Cities for Cycling" at
University of Baltimore - How are
city planners in major metropolitan areas like New York, Washington and
Portland overcoming obstacles when it comes to integrating bicycling into
community infrastructure? How can a city's "car culture" be
adjusted to better accommodate bicyclists? Find the answers to these
questions and more when the University of Baltimore and UBgreen host
the National Association for City Transportation Officials' Cities for
Cycling event on Thursday, Sept. 30 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Langsdale Library
Auditorium, 1420 Maryland Avenue, Baltimore, MD.
Oct. 1st - Dr. Allen Klaiber? Pennsylvania State
University - "Is
All Space Created Equal? Uncovering the Relationship Between Competing Land
Uses in Subdivisions." This seminar, sponsored by the Center for Urban
Environmental Research and Education, will be
held on Friday at 2:00pm in the Technology Research Center, Room 206, on the
University of Maryland, Baltimore County campus, and is free and open to the
public. Registration is not required. Visitor parking passes for the TRC lot may
be purchased for $4.00 in the CUERE office in TRC 102/105 on the UMBC campus
shortly before seminar.
Algae
eyed to clean Chesapeake Bay: Scientists
say 'scrubbers' can reduce pollution, produce fuel (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore
Sun, 9/26/10) [Article quotes Walter
Boynton of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]
Jellyfish
in Inner Harbor a sign of drought: Stinging
nettles swim north as dry conditions make upper bay saltier (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore
Sun, 9/23/10) [Article quotes Raleigh Hood of the University of Maryland Center
for Environmental Science]
Keeper
wants state sanctioned for withholding farm data (By Tim Wheeler, The
Baltimore Sun, B'More Green Blog, 9/23/10) [Article cites the University of
Maryland Environmental Law Clinic]
Going
for gold: The challenge of building green (By Matt Demoga, The Diamondback
Online, 9/20/10)
Guest
column: Green living is apolitical (By Matthew Popkin, The Diamondback
Online, 9/20/10)
$3.6
million buys bigger, environmentally friendly DOTS buses: Four of eight new
Shuttle-UM buses are costly hybrids (By Alicia McCarthy, The
Diamondback Online, 9/20/10)
Growing
grub: Activist
shares garden's bounty (By Claire Saravia, The Diamondback Online,
9/20/10)
University works to reduce
stormwater runoff pollution (By Yasmeen Abutaleb,
The Diamondback Online, 9/20/10)
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