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Week of March 29, 2010

News from Across the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Campuses

March 29^th - Paving the Way and Growing Energy - The first episode examines the need for greater transportation efficiencies, and the second looks at ethanol production in Brazil and its future in the United States. Salisbury University brings sustainability to the silver screen during the film series .  Sponsored by the Office of Cultural Affairs, Salisbury University. Admission is free and the public is invited. For more information call 410-543-6271.

April 2^nd - Dr. Katalin Szlavecz, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University,   Seminar will be held on Friday at 2pm in the Technology Research Center, Room 206, on the University of Maryland, Baltimore County campus. The seminar, which is a part of the CUERE Seminar Seriesm, 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.

Celebrate

and other April events to celebrate - Celebrate Earth Month at University of Maryland, College Park

(By Annie Linskey and Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 3/27/10)

(By Pamela Wood, The Capital, 3/26/10) [Article quotes the staff of the Horn Point Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]

(County Times - Southern Maryland Online, 3/25/10) [Article quotes the staff of the Horn Point Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]

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State of Maryland

(By Larry Carson, The Baltimore Sun, 3/28/10)

(By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 3/27/10)

(By Kevin Spradlin, The Cumberland Times News as reported by The Baltimore Sun, 3/27/10)

(By The Baltimore Sun Staff, The Baltimore Sun, 3/25/10)

National and International News

(By Tom Heap, BBC News, 3/28/10)

(By Michael McCarthy, The [UK] Independent, 3/26/10)

(EPA News Release, 3/26/10)

(By Ben Geman, The Hill, 3/26/10)

(By Jonathan Watts, The [UK] Guardian, 3/26/10)

(By David Adam, The [UK] Guardian, 3/26/10)

(The BBC News, 3/24/10)

(By Brit Liggett, Inhabit.com, 3/22/10)

(Reported by Dick Gordon, The Story - NPR, 3/24/20)

(By Michael Graham Richardson, Treehugger.com, 3/23/10)

(AFP as reported by Yahoo News, 3/22/10)

(By Charles Duhigg, The New York Times, 3/22/10)