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Week of April 4, 2011

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April 2011 - - To celebrate, the Office of Civic Engagement along with the Environmental Initiatives Sub-Committee, TU Goes Green, and the University Bookstore have planned a series of fun and exciting events aimed at saving our planet! For more information on any of these events please e-mail Jillian Koller at jkolle1@students.towson.edu

April 5^th - - Dr. Bruce James, Director, Environmental Science and Policy Program will discuss education opportunities in sustainability along with the status of the sustainability minor and sustainability education as part of the weekly lecture focusing on sustainability and the University of Maryland, College Park. The lecture will take place from 5:00- 6:15pm at the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, in the Auditorium, Room 0204, on the UMCP  campus. This Lecture is one in a series offered during the Spring Semester as part of ARCH 289i, Smart Growth Goes to School. The series is co-sponsored by the Campus Office of Sustainability. The event is free and open to all. For more information, contact Christine Cestello Hinojosa at 301-405-6286, or at hinojosa@umd.edu.

April 8^th - Dr. Kurt Stephenson, Virginia Tech? Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics??- 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.  ?

April 10^th (10pm) and April 11^th  (2am)?- University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's new Maryland Sea Grant Film Examines This fresh perspective examines conflicting claims about the calamities that struck down some of the world's richest oyster grounds. Three particular groups come to the forefront -- the watermen who fish the oysters, oyster farmers who grow them and scientists who study them. Recent research and long-forgotten historical archives shed light on and re-evaluate the groups' roles. This film is a part of the .  

- The 2011 University of Baltimore Environmental Sciences Summer Academy is for high school students, and is led by Stanley Kemp and Wolf Pecher, both lecturers in the University's Division of Liberal Studies and experienced environmentalists. The program consists of two off-campus field trips, laboratory work and a number of related classroom activities. As many as 14 students will be selected to participate. Among the opportunities presented to them will be field studies of two of Maryland's key ecosystems: the urban watershed known as the Jones Falls, and the singularly inspiring Chesapeake Bay-the nation's largest estuary and home to more than 300 species of fish, crab and shellfish.

(Salisbury University Press Release, 3/31/11)

(UM Newsdesk; University of Maryland, College Park; 3/31/11)

(By Arlette Philogene; UM Newsdesk; University of Maryland, College Park; 3/30/11)

(By Jonathan Tilove, NOLA.com, 3/29/11) [Article quotes Dr. Donald F. Boesch, President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and a member of President Obama's Gulf Oil Spill Commission]

State of Maryland News

April 7^th - , with Gil Peñalosa, executive director of 8-80 Cities, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Bain Center, in Columbia, MD. Peñalosa is passionate about vibrant and healthy communities. As the commissioner of Parks, Sport and Recreation for the City of Bogotá, Colombia, Peñalosa's team initiated the "new Ciclovia" - car-free Sundays - today an internationally-recognized program that sees more than 1.3 million people walk, run, skate and bike along 75 miles of Bogotá's city roads. Registration is desired but not required to attend this presentation. To register, or to find out more information, please respond via e-mail to Event.RSVP@ColumbiaAssociation.com. The Bain Center is located at 5470 Ruth Keeton Way in Columbia. Hosted by the Columbia Association, for more information, contact Sheila L. Green at 410-715-3171. [PDF]

(By Susan Reimer, The Baltimore Sun, 4/1/11)

(By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 4/1/11)

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(By Liz F. Kay, The Baltimore Sun, 3/30/11)

(By Julie Bykowicz, The Baltimore Sun - Maryland Politics, 3/30/11)

(By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 3/28/11)

National and International News

(By Paul Krugman, The New York Times - Opinion, 4/3/11)

(By Joanna Zelman, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 4/4/11)

(By Ann Koh and James Paton, Bloomberg News, 4/1/11)

(Reported by Ira Flatow, NPR - Science Friday, 4/1/11)

(By Anthony DiPaola, Bloomberg News, 3/31/11)

(By The Monitor's Editorial Board, The Christian Science Monitor - The Monitor's View, 3/31/11)

(By Steven Mufson, The Washington Post - Business, 3/30/11)

(By John M. Broder, The New York Times, 3/30/11)

(By John Collins Rudolf, The New York Times - Green Blog, 3/30/11)

(By John Broder, The New York Times - Energy and Environment, 3/30/11)

(Reported by Ayesha Rascoe, Roberta Rampton and Timothy Gardner; edited by Sofina Mirza-Reid, Reuters UK, 3/30/11)

(By Mari Yamaguchi, The Huffington Post - World Blog, 3/30/11)

(By John Podesta, Carl Pope, Gene Karpinski; Center for American Progress - Energy and Environment, 3/30/11)

(By Rocky Kistner, NRDC as reported by The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 3/29/11)

(By Justin Gillis, The New York Times - Green Blog, 3/29/11)

(The Associated Press as reported by The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 3/29/11)

(By Tom Bergin and Dominic Lau, Reuters London, 3/29/11)

(The European Commission - Transport and Travel, 3/28/11)

(By Jess Zimmerman, Grist.org - Politics Blog, 3/28/11)

(By Elly Blue, Grist.org - Biking Blog, 3/28/11)

(By Mychaylo Prystupa, CBC News [Canada], 3/28/11)

(By Gavin Blair, The Christian Science Monitor, 3/28/11)