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Week of April 13, 2009

News From Across the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Campuses

Friday, April 24^th. Ecofest is the annual Earth Day celebration organized by UMBC Students for Environmental Awareness. Events held at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.  

 . Events will focus on environmental stewardship, taking action, and celebrating and serving the Earth. All events are free and most are open to the public.  Frostburg State University.

- 10:00am - 3:00pm, sponsored by the University of Baltimore. Join the Aquarium in a party for Our Ocean Planet, honoring the new dolphin show and celebrating Earth's watery world. Explore what you can do to enjoy, protect and respect our blue planet-starting with your own backyard. Event is at the National Aquarium, 501 E. Pratt Street in Baltimore. Price: Adults- $29.95, Seniors- $28.95, Children- $19.95. For more information, the National Aquarium in Baltimore can be reached at 410-576-3800 (daily 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) or at .

This seminar will be held at 2 PM 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 the seminar.

April 15, 2009 at 6:30 in the Architecture Building Auditorium - Lecture: "Sustainability, Materiality, and Architecture." The University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation along with Emerging Green Builders are hosting Blaine Brownell of to discuss "Sustainability, Materiality, and Architecture". This event is free and open to the public. AIA CES credit is available. Unless otherwise noted, lectures are held in the Architecture Building Auditorium.

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Sustainability at Salisbury University - (April 2009)

- Please join us this April in celebrating Earth Month! All month long, various departments and student groups will be hosting events on and around campus promoting green ideas and practices. University of Maryland, College Park.

. Events are held at The Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts, on the campus of University of Maryland, College Park. For more information about scheduled events, contact Laura Mertens, Communications Coordinator ?Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, at mertens@umd.edu or at (301) 405-8151.

(UM Newsdesk - Science and Technology, 4/8/09)

(By Erica Mitrano, SoMoNewsOnline.com/The Recorder, 4/8/09) [Report by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]

(By Lindsay Perma, The Washington Examiner, 4/7/09) [President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Dr. Donald Boesch, is quoted in the article]

(By Greg Holzheimer, The Gazette, 4/7/09)

 
State of Maryland News

(By Jay Hancock, The Baltimore Sun, 4/8/09)

(By David Dishneau, The Associated Press as reported in The Baltimore Sun, 4/8/09)

(Baynet.com, 4/8/09)

  (Utility Products Press Release, 4/3/09)

 National and International News

. Earth Day 2009, April 22, will mark the beginning of which will also be the focus of the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day in 2010.

(By Kendra Marr, The Washington Post, 4/10/09)

(John M. Broder, The New York Times, 4/10/09)

(By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post, 4/8/09)

(By Thomas Friedman, New York Time Op-Ed, 4/7/09)

(By Jad Mouawad, The New York Times, 4/7/09)

(By Reuters as reported in The New York Times, 4/7/09)

(By Kate Galbraith, The New York Times - Green, Inc., 4/7/09)