Â鶹ÊÓƵ National Green Campus
News Archive
Week of October 18, 2010
News from Across the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Campuses
Oct. 20th - , from 6-8pm at 2517 Van Munching Hall, on the University of Maryland, College Park campus. Please join us for a unique discussion on sustainable supply chain management. Laura Dunn, VP of Supply Chain and Analysis, HMSHost, Nancy Gillis, Sustainability Advisor, U.S. GSA, John LaPorta, Service Area Leader for Sustainable Procurement Consulting, IBM and Taylor Wilkerson, Senior Consultant, LMI will share their views and answer questions on this important topic. Co-sponsored by the Smith School's Supply Chain and Operations Club and Net Impact.
Oct. 20th - (Salisbury University Press Release, 10/15/10). Salisbury University celebrates National Campus Sustainability Day with activities including presentations, recycling opportunities and even bicycle tune-ups from 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 20, in the Wicomico Room in the Guerrieri University Center, on the Salisbury University campus.
Oct. 21st - . Presentation is by Dr. Joshua W. Elliott - University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Computation Institute. For more information, please contact Danniel Kirk-Davidoff. Event will be held in the Computer and Space Science (CSS) Bldg, 2400 (Atrium) on the UMCP campus. Pre-seminar refreshment from 3-3:30pm and the seminar is from 3:30-4:30pm, and is open to the public. Event is sponsored by the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Oct. 22nd - Dr. Melissa McHale of the North Carolina State University's Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources - 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.
Oct. 23rd - (University of Baltimore Newsroom, 10/16/10). The University of Baltimore community is invited to help the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's volunteer effort to plant trees throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed-an extended effort to slow down runoff and mitigate soil erosion into the bay. A group of UB students, faculty and staff will travel to a large dairy farm in Carroll County on Saturday, Oct. 23 to plant trees and shrubs in strategic locations. The project is part of the Farm Stewardship Program in the Monacacy River watershed. A carpool will leave from campus at 7:30 a.m. and return at about 3:30 p.m. Volunteers are advised to dress for the weather. Equipment and refreshments will be provided. You can via UB's Web calendar.
(Towson University Newsroom, 10/18/10)
(By Nicole Dao, The Capital, 10/16/10) [Article quotes Connie Musgrove of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]
(By Courtney Rhodes, WUSA9 - Bowie News, 10/13/10)
(By Carol Harvat, SoMDNesws.com, 10/13/10) [The UMCES's Chesapeake Biological Laboratory presented exhibits about their environmental focus]
(By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 10/11/10) [Article quotes Walter Boynton of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]
(By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 10/11/10) [Article quotes Dave Secor of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]
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State of Maryland News
(By Hanah Cho, The Baltimore Sun, 10/15/10)
(By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun, 10/14/10)
(By Hannah Cho and Frank D. Roylance, The Baltimore Sun, 10/12/10)
National and International News
(By RedOrbit.com, 10/18/10)
(The New York Times - Op Ed, 10/17/10)
(By Michael Grunwalk, Time Magazine - Viewpoint, 10/15/10)
(By Phuong Le, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 10/14/10)
(By Ayesha Rascoe, Reuters, 10/14/10)
(By Nick Bunckley and Bill Vlasic, They New York Times, 10/14/10)
(By Neela Banerjee, The Los Angeles Times, 10/14/10)
(By Amy Minsky, The Ottawa [Canada] Citizen, 10/14/10)
(By David Leonhardt, The New York Times, 10/14/10)
(By Juliette Jowit, The [UK] Guardian, 10/13/10)
(By MacMcClelland, Mother Jones, 10/13/10)
(The Baltimore Sun - Our View, 10/12/10)
(By McClatchy Newspapers as reported by the Salt Lake Tribune, 10/12/10)
(By Matthew L. Wald, The New York Times, 10/12/10)
(Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, 10/12/10)
(By Jill U. Adams, The Los Angeles Times, 10/11/10)
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