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Week of February 15, 2010

News from Across the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Campuses

February 18^th  - - Coppin State University, from 3:30 - 5:00 pm in Room 218B, Dining and Meeting Hall, on the CSU campus.

February 19^th -  Dr. Peter Groffman, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies,?Millbrook, NY. The seminar will be held on Friday at 2 PM in the Technology Research Center, Room 206, on the UMBC 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.

February 25^th - 6:30-8:00pm, National Building Museum, Washington DC - A Green Building is a Healthier One - Can working in a green building make you healthier? And if you can prove this, would reduce a company's health care insurance? Find out if this is a game changer when considering how and when to build sustainably. A discussion with: Gregory Kats, senior director and director of climate change policy, Good Energies, Michelle Moore, Federal Environmental Executive, President's Council on Environmental Quality, Mark Nicholls, Senior Vice President, Corporate Workplace Executive, Bank of America, Vivian Loftness, Professor, Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture, Moderator, Robert Ivy, Architectural Record Editor-In-Chief.

March 21-23 - The Inn & Conference Center, University of Maryland University College - Colleges and universities have a significant impact on the built and natural environment and are under increasing pressure from governments, students, and community members to carefully mitigate their environmental footprint. This comprehensive symposium features sessions and workshops on smart growth and sustainable practices that serve the economy, the community, and the environment. Topics include institutionalizing sustainability, operational solutions, smart growth and campus planning, and assessment and measurement.

 (By Deborah Gates, DelMarVaNow.com, 2/12/10) [Article quotes Court Stevenson of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and Tom Horton of the Salisbury University Environmental Issues program]

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Initiative

• Practices
• Programs
• Policies

• Presentations
• Climate Change Definitions
• Facilities Master Planning
• Statewide Sustainability Efforts
• Useful Links and References

(By Andrea F. Siegel, The Baltimore Sun, 2/8/10) [Article quotes Dr. Donald F. Boesch, President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]

State of Maryland News

(By Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 2/12/10)

(By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 2/12/10)

(By Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 2/12/10) [ in the Gazette.Net]

National and International News

 (By Todd Woody and Clifford Krauss, The New York Times, 2/14/10)

(By Matt Joyce, The Washington Post, 2/14/10)

(By Bill McKibben, The Washington Post, 2/14/10)

(By Terry Macalister, The [UK] Guardian, 2/14/10)

(By Juliet Eilperin, The  Washington Post - Post Carbon, 2/14/10)

(By Becca Blond, The Colorado Independent, 2/12/10)

(By Juliet Eilperin, The  Washington Post - Post Carbon, 2/12/10)

(By Jim Tankersley, The Baltimore Sun, 2/12/10)

(By Eric Berger, The Houston Chronicle - The Sci Guy Blog, 2/12/10)

(By Juliet Eilperin, The  Washington Post - Post Carbon, 2/11/10)

(By Fred Pearce, The [UK] Guardian, 2/9/10)

(By Juliet Eilperin, The  Washington Post, 2/9/10)