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Week of February 2, 2009

News From Across the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Campuses

Join student from around the country in watching the "Solutions for the First 100 Days" webcast to learn how we all can encourage the new Congress and Administration to support legislation that will reduce global warming emissions and develop a domestic clean energy economy.  Learn about ways to get active with the student group, UMD for Clean Energy.  Meet speakers from the Office of Sustainability and the National Wildlife Federation.  Free pizza and drinks will be served! 

at Chesapeake College, Todd Performing Art Center, Wye Mills, MD. For more information, contact Greg Farley at 410-822-5400, ext. 389 [The Keynote Speaker is Louis Codispoti, of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]

. RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. Over a 10-week period, schools report recycling and trash data which are then ranked according to who collects , , , or have the . With each week's reports and rankings, participating schools watch how their results fluctuate against other schools and use this to rally their campus communities to reduce and recycle more.

(By Deborah Gates, Delmarvanow.com, 1/28/09) [Article quotes David Nemazie, of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]

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(Allison Stice, The Diamondback, 1/28/09)  [Article cites the advocacy of the Maryland Student Climate Coalition]

(By Staff, The Examiner, 1/27/09) Donald Boesch, president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, is participating in a major study on climate change by the National Academies of Science and Engineering. Boesch, of Annapolis, serves on the overall coordinating committee that will write the final report based on the work of four separate panels. He is one of seven Maryland residents selected to work on this two-year congressionally mandated study, which will investigate and make recommendations on the issues related to global climate change.

(By Michelle Cleveland, The Diamondback Online, 1/27/09)

WYPR (National Public Radio) - Maryland Morning Radio Program (1/27/09) - (Audio) Scroll down Maryland Morning web page to click on audio for this specific show [show features Dr. Donald Boesch, President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]

State of Maryland News

(By Laura D'Alessandro, Delmarvanow.com, 1/30/09)

(By Laura Smitherman, The Baltimore Sun, 1/29/09)

(By Tom Horton, Delmarvanow.com, 1/29/09)

(By Karyn Strickler, OpEd News.com, 1/28/09)

(By Scott Dance, Baltimore Business Journal, 1/28/09)

(By Sean Patrick Norris and Liam Farrell, The Capital, 1/26/09)

(By Sean R. Sedam, The Gazette, 1/23/09)

(By Sue Schultz, Baltimore Business Journal, 1/23/09)

(The Office of Governor Martin O'Malley - Press Release, 1/23/09)

National and International News

(1/2009)

(By Warren Brown, The Washington Post - Column, 2/1/09)

(By Senator Richard G. Lugar - R-IN, The Washington Post - Editorial, 2/1/09)

(By Roger K. Lewis, The Washington Post, 1/31/09)
(By Laura Coverson, ABC News, 1/31/09)  
(By Bryan Walsh, Time Magazine on-line, 1/31/09)

(By Warren Brown, The Washington Post, 1/30/09)

(By Dina Cappiello, The Associated Press as reported in The Baltimore Sun, 1/27/09)

(By Samantha Young, The Associated Press as reported in The Washington Post, 1/27/09)

(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration News, 1/26/09)

(By William Branigin, Juliet Eilperin, and Steven Mufson, The Washington Post, 1/26/09)

(They New York Times, 1/25/09)

(Published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, 1/23/09)