Â鶹ÊÓƵ National Green Campus
News Archive
Week
of September 30, 2013
News
from Across the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Campuses
October
3rd -
- West Virginia University - This event is a part of the Fall 2013 Appalachian
Laboratory Visiting Scholar Seminar Series.
This
seminar will be held on Thursday at 3:30pm and located in Room 109 of the
Appalachian Laboratory.
October 4th - Dr. Richard Feiock from Florida
State University- This
seminar is a part of the Fall 2013 Seminar Series sponsored by the Center for
Urban Environmental Research and Education (CUERE) at University of Maryland,
Baltimore County. The seminar will be held at 2:00pm in the Technology Research
Center, Room 206, on the UMBC 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.
October
12th - - The Horn Point Laboratory invites the public to
take part in its annual Open House from 10am to 3pm. Located on the banks of
the Choptank River on Maryland's Eastern Shore, the laboratory is renowned for
its study of marine ecosystems.
State
of Maryland News
(Maryland Department of the
Environment, Press Release, 9/27/13)
(Maryland
Department of Transportation, News Release, 9/26/13)
October
5th - 12th - Governor Martin O'Malley today announced the
return of the From the Bay, For the Bay Dine Out, a week-long celebration of
Maryland seafood benefiting the Oyster Recovery Partnership. More than 50
high-profile restaurants have already signed up, including Ryleigh's Oyster
House, Woodberry Kitchen, Rocklands, and Matchbox. Last year's inaugural
promotion proved a success, raising $20,000 for oyster restoration projects.
(Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Access DNR, 9/25/13)
(By Michael Graham
Richard, Treehugger.com, 9/23/13) [68% of Maryland respondents approve of
efforts to increase the number of bike lanes in the DC-Metro area]
National
and International News
(By Jon Queally, CommonDreams.org, 9/27/13)
(By John
Upton, Grist.org, 9/27/13)
(By Michael E. Mann,
The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 9/27/13)
(By Duncan Clark, The [UK] Guardian, 9/27/13)
(By Chris Tackett, Treehugger.com - Climate Change Blog, 9/27/13)
(By Andrea Germanos, CommonDreams.org, 9/26/13)
(By John Upton,
Grist.org, 9/25/13)
(American Consumer Survey as reported by the
League of American Bicyclists, 9/25/13)
(Reuters as reported by The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 9/25/13)
(By Lindsay
Abrams, Salon.com, 9/25/13)
(By Mark Byrnes, The
AtlanticCities.com, 9/24/13)
(By Matt Ferner, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 9/24/13)
(By Amir
Bibawy, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 9/24/13)
(By Andrea Germanos,
CommonDreams.org, 9/23/13)
(Oxfam Issue
Briefing, Oxfam.org, September 2013) [PDF]
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