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Week of April 9, 2012

News from Across the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Campuses

April 10^th - ?- Professor Rob Sprinkle, School of Public Affairs, Co-Director, UMCP Sustainability Minor. This lecture is a part of the University of Maryland, College Park's Sustainability Speaker Series, and is co-sponsored by the University Office of Sustainability, and ARCH 289i. This event will be held at?3:30pm on Tuesday, at the Lecture Hall, School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, on the campus of University of Maryland, College Park.

April 16^th  - 17^th - Register now for the to be held at the University of Maryland, University College Inn and Conference Center. This conference is hosted by the University of Maryland, College Park. Conference tracks are: Life Cycle of the Built Environment; Community Connections; The Campus as a Learning Laboratory; Fostering Behavior Change; and Strategic Implementation.

(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, April 2012 Issue)

State of Maryland News

April 21^st - and (April 20^th - 28^th)

(By Scott Graham, Baltimore Business Journal, 4/5/12)

(By Kiley Kroh and Erin Gustafson, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress, 4/4/12)

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• Presentations
• Climate Change Definitions
• Facilities Master Planning
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(By Jonathan Schell, The Nation as reported by CommonDreams.org, 4/6/12)

(By Severin Carrell, The [UK] Guardian, 4/6/12)

(By Christopher Mims, Grist.org, 4/5/12)

(Reuters as reported by The New York Times, 4/5/12)

(By Raj Patel, Slate.com, 4/5/12)

(The Associated Press as reported by The Washington Post, 4/5/12)

(Interview with Richard Heinberg by Dan Rodricks, NPR/WYPR Baltimore - The Dan Rodricks Show, 4/4/12)

(By Chris Nelder, SmartPlanet.com, 4/4/12)

(By Common Dreams Staff, CommonDreams.org, 4/4/12)

(By Jay Walljasper, Sharable.net as reported by CommonDreams.org, 4/3/12)

(By Common Dreams staff, CommonDreams.org, 4/3/12)

(By SPIEGEL Staff, Spiegel Online International, 4/2/12)