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Week of April 23, 2012

News from Across the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Campuses

April 26^th - Come to the Clark School Engineering Sustainability Workshop 2012 and learn how sustainability must be engineered. This event will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Kay Boardrooms and Rotunda,?Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, on the University of Maryland, College Park campus.?Co-sponsored by the University of Maryland Energy Research Center and the University of Maryland Office of Sustainability.

April 28^th - at University of Maryland, College Park. This community event will take place on the campus of University of Maryland, College Park from 10am - 4pm. [PDF] of events and activities.

(By Donald Boesch, The Journal Nature, 4/19/12) [Dr. Donald F. Boesch is the President of University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]

(Salisbury University Press Release, 4/18/12)

[Video] (The Washington Post, 4/17/12) [Report issued by University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]

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(U.S. Department of Education Press Release, 4/23/12) [4 Maryland schools were named "Green Ribbon" Schools - The schools are: Dunloggin Middle School?(Ellicott City), Francis Scott Key Middle School?(Silver Spring), Folger McKinsey Elementary School?(Severna Park), and Lucy School?(Middletown)]

(By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 4/23/12)

(By Candus Thomson, The Baltimore Sun, 4/19/12)

National and International News

(By Ari Rabinovitch, Reuters, 4/22/12)

(The Economist Magazine - Buttonwood's Notebook, 4/21/12)

(By Peter Rugh, CommonDreams.org, 4/21/12)

(Sundance.org, 4/19/12)

(By Tom Zeller, Jr., The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 4/17/12)

(By Justin Ellis, Nieman Journalism Lab as reported by ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress, 4/17/12)

(By Andrew Zaleski, Grist.org, 4/17/12)

(By Alyssa Battistoni, Mother Jones - Blue Marble Blog, 4/16/12)

(By Nate Berg, The Atlantic Cities Blog, 4/16/12)

(By Eric Talmadge, The Associated Press as reported by PostBulletin.com, 4/16/12)

(By Dominique Browning, Time Ideas as reported by ThinkProgress.org - Climate Blog, 4/16/12)

(By Greg Rucks and Jessie Morris, Rocky Mountain Institute as reported by ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress, 4/16/12)