USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week
of October 8, 2012
News
from Across the USM Campuses
Oct. 11th - Rain
Barrels 101: Saving for a Sunny Day - Interested in installing rain barrels
at your home or just want to learn how to conserve water? Come to this workshop
by Blue Water Baltimore to learn how easy it is to set up your own rain
barrels! This workshop will be held from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm at SMC Campus
Center, Green Room at University of Maryland, Baltimore, located at 621 W.
Lombard St. Baltimore, MD 21201.
Oct. 12th - Dr. James
Connolly, Department of Urban Policy and Political Science, Northeastern University - "Organizing Urban
Ecosystem Governance through Environmental Stewardship in New York City."
Seminar will be held on Friday at 2:00pm in the Technology Research Center,
Room 206, on the campus of University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 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.
Oct. 17th - Where
Do We Go From Here? 'Gasland' Screening and Discussion. The boom in natural
gas drilling, a process called "fracking," raises concerns about
health and environmental risks. Learn more at this screening of "Gasland." The screening and
discussion will be held from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm at the SMC Campus Center, Room
351, located at 621 W. Lombard St. Baltimore, MD 21201. The event, sponsored by
UM Go Green, is free, and snacks will be provided. For more information, please
email gogreen@umaryland.edu.
State
of Maryland News
Offshore
Wind Environmental Studies To Start (By News Editor, Shawn J. Soper, The
Maryland Coast Dispatch, 10/5/12)
Board
of Public Works Approves Grants for Clean Water and the Chesapeake Bay: Grants Will Reduce Nutrient Pollution,
Improve Infrastructure (Maryland Department of the Environment Press
Release, 10/3/12)
Offshore Wind in Md.
Could Boost Recreational Fishing, Hurt Commercial Industry (By Rachel
Pacella, Southern Maryland Online, 10/3/12)
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National
and International News
American
Newspapers Give Far More Coverage To Climate Deniers And Skeptics Than Other
Countries (By Stephen Lacey, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress Blog,
10/5/12)
California
Gas Prices Jump By Up To 20 Cents Overnight (By Gillian Flaccus, The
Associated Press as reported by The Huffington Post, 10/5/12)
Rebuffing Shell, Judge
Affirms Greenpeace's Right to Protest: 'Civil disobedience is a right in
democracies' says Greenpeace head (By Common Dreams staff,
CommonDreams.org, 10/5/12)
Charts
Reveal Drill, Baby, Drill Fails to Stop High Oil Prices (By Joe Romm,
ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress, 10/3/12)
Penn
State Won't Participate in Drilling Group's Controversial Fracking Study
(By Nick DeSantis, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 10/3/12)
8
Out of 10 Undecided Voters Believe in Climate Change (By Brian Merchant,
Treehugger.com - Business/Environmental Policy, 10/2/12)
There
IS a Bicycle Economy, Two Cities Find (By A.K. Streeter, Treehugger.com -
Transportation/Bikes, 10/2/12)
Ten
Questions on Energy and the Environment Obama and Romney Should Answer at the
Debate (By Mark Hertsgaard, The Nation, 10/2/12)
Irreversible
Warming Will Cause Sea Levels to Rise for Thousands of Years to Come, New
Research Shows (The Institute of Physics as reported by Science Daily,
10/2/12)
Special
Report: The casualties of Chesapeake's "land grab" across America
(Reuters.com, 10/2/12)
50
months to save the world - interactive: The world has 50 months to go before
the dice become loaded against us in terms of keeping under a 2C temperature
rise. We asked Guardian readers and public figures what they would do to lead
us out of this climate predicament. From mass protest to pensions to personal
carbon targets, here are their suggestions (By Garry Blight and Guardian
Readers, The [UK] Guardian, 10/1/12)
Deepwater Horizon
Talks Stall as Groups Haggle over Diminishing Penalties (By Common Dreams
Staff, CommonDreams.org, 10/1/12)
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