Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ National Green Campus
News Archive

Week of November 18, 2013

News from Across the Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ Campuses

Dec. 4th - - The TU Office of Sustainability presents the Sustainability Film series, featuring recently critically acclaimed documentaries on the most important issues of this generation.

Environmental activist Colin Beavan confronts the problem of consumption head on by getting his family to live for one year with no net environmental impact. They experiment with living without toilet paper, washer and dryer, refrigerator, elevators, electric lights and cars. Along the way he finds that the low consumption life style may be a more joyful one as well. The film begins at 7 p.m. in CLA 2110.

Dec. 4th - , 12-12:45pm, Public Health Garden at the University of Maryland Arboretum

State of Maryland News

(By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 11/15/13)

(By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green Blog, 11/14/13)

National and International News

(By Emily Atkin, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress Blog, 11/18/13)

(By Lindsay Abrams, Salon.com - Sustainability Blog, 11/18/13)

(By Michael Klare, TomDispatch.com as reported byThe [UK] Guardian - Environment Blog, 11/18/13)

(By Jan Piotrowski, SciDevNet as reported by Environmental News Network, 11/15/13)

(By Richard Smith, Ad Busters as reported by CommonDreams.org, 11/15/13)

(By Jeff Spross, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress Blog, 11/15/13)

(By Jon Queally, CommonDreams.org, 11/14/13)

(Institute for Local Self-Reliance as reported by CommonDreams.org, 11/13/13)

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