Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ National Green Campus
News Archive

Week of February 7, 2011

News from Across the Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ Campuses

Feb. 8th - - This lecture will be held at 5pm,in the Lecture Hall of the School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, on the University of Maryland, College Park campus. The presentation will be by Dr. Ann Wylie, Vice President for Administrative Affairs, and Scott Lupin, Director of Sustainability and Associate Director of the Department of Environmental Safety, for the university, and is a part of the Sustainable Tuesdays Lecture Series.

Feb. 9th - Ryan Rykaczewski  (NOAA/GFDL) - This event is hosted by Victoria Coles, and is a part of the Horn Point Laboratory Faculty Seminar Series. Seminar will be held on Wednesday at 11:00am in the HPL auditorium

Feb. 10th - Jonathan Thompson of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, ? This event is hosted by Matt Fitzpatrick, and is a part of the Appalachian Laboratory Seminar Series. The seminar will be held on Thursday at 3:30pm, in Room 109 of the Appalachian Laboratory.

Feb. 11th - Dr. Colin Polsky,?Clark University,?Graduate School of Geography?-   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.

(By Hilary Staver, The Diamondback Online, 2/7/11)

(By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 2/6/11) [Article quotes Heath Kelsey of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]

(By Steven Spinello, The Diamondback Online, 2/3/11)

(By Liz Holland, DelMarVaNow.com, 2/3/11) [The research is being conducted at a University of Maryland Eastern Shore facility near Assateague.]

(By Tim Brennan, The Baltimore Sun, 2/3/11) Tim Brennan is a professor of public policy at UMBC.

(University News, University of Maryland College Park, 2/2/11)

(By Yasmeen Abutaleb, The Diamondback Online, 2/2/11)

State of Maryland News

(By Jay Hancock, The Baltimore Sun, 2/6/11)

(BY Darryl Fears, The Washington Post, 2/6/11)

(By Steve Hendrix, The Washington Post, 2/5/11)

(By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 2/4/11) 

(NPR - The Signal, 2/4/11)

(By Hanah Cho, The Baltimore Sun, 2/4/11)

(By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 2/3/11)

Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Initiative

(By Lindsey McPherson, The Columbia Flyer, 2/3/11)

(By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 2/3/11)   

(By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 2/2/11)

National and International News

(The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 2/4/11 updated 2/7/11)

(By Paul Krugman, The New York Times - Opinion, 2/6/11)

(By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The [UK] Telegraph, 2/6/11)

(By Martin Abbugao, AFP as reported by Yahoo News, 2/5/11)

(By Melissa Eddy, The Associated Press as reported by The Washington Post, 2/5/11)

(By Oilver J. Chiang, Yahoo Finance, 2/5/11)

(The Associated Press as reported by Fox News, 2/4/11)

(The White House - Office of Media Affairs, 2/3/11)

(By Charley Baline, MSN - Money, 2/3/11)

(By Stuart Grundings, Reuters as reported by MSNBC.com, 2/3/11)

(By Michael D. Shear, The New York Times - Politics, 2/3/11)

(By Sheila McNulty, Financial Times, 2/3/11)

(Interview by Christoph Schult and Christian Schwägerl, Der Spiegel - International, 2/2/11)

(Interview by Christoph Schult and Christian Schwägerl, Der Spiegel - International, 2/2/11)

(By Hamish McRae, The [UK] Independent - Opinion, 2/2/11)

(NPR - The Diane Rehm Show, 2/1/11)

(By Robert Gibbons, Reuters, 1/31/11)

(AFP as reported by Google News, 1/31/11)

(By Clifford Krauss, The New York Times - Green Blog, 1/31/11)

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