September 8th, 2009 | by Clay Gump | published in Environment
Staying on the topic of “Green” financing. The Environmental Finance Center is hosting a Financing Renewable Energy symposium. During the symposium experts from across the country will highlight the resources available for creating sustainable financing for renewable energy projects, as well as present success stories featuring agriculture waste to energy, solar, wind, and energy conservation [...]
September 5th, 2009 | by Clay Gump | published in Environment, Politics
[flickr float="center"]3890128966[/flickr] A student based group called UMD for Clean Energy is spearheading a campaign called Green for College Park where they plan to become very actively involved in the upcoming City elections to push forward clean energy policies. Our campaign is to influence city politics by pushing a green platform with a clean energy policy that will set [...]
July 27th, 2009 | by Clay Gump | published in Environment
As our plans for a new Route 1 seem to be stalling other communities are moving ahead. The Washington Post reports on Edmonston’s efforts at revitalizing the area by installing a “green street” that should make folks who travel Route 1 green with envy. In a few weeks, workers will start ripping up Edmonston’s main [...]
April 22nd, 2008 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in Environment, Transportation
Did you know you can purchase a bundle of one-day parking permits to park on campus, get discounted Metro cards, or even rent a Zipcar on campus? Many of our readers commute to the UMD campus, and others are effected by the choices made by those who work or study here. To the end of [...]
December 13th, 2007 | by David Daddio | published in Bicycles, Environment
We’ve heard the concept tossed around a couple of times, but what would it actually take to bring this great trail north of its terminus behind Home Depot? Crossing under 12 lanes of beltway traffic doesn’t appear to be the biggest obstacle since there is already a substantial underpass in place for the stream. The real [...]
December 6th, 2007 | by R. Michael Farhoodi | published in Environment, Transportation
An impressive environmental movement has been building lately concerned about the warming of earth’s climate and what we should do about it. A major force in it has been the passions of activists, especially college students. The recent Powershift 2007 conference at our campus brought together students from around the country to consider what should [...]
October 18th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in East Campus, Environment, Old Town, Transportation
The East Campus Community Review Steering Committee has been meeting since August to hear from the developers and their consultants about a wide variety of issues surrounding the project. We have encouraged our readers to attend these meetings (and many have) and I am an official committee member of this committee. The meetings are preceded [...]
October 15th, 2007 | by Eric Fidler | published in Environment, Events
(Fawna Xiao of the University of Maryland is ready for the next round of visitors at the 2007 Solar Decathlon on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 15. The Maryland team took second place in the architecture portion of the competition. Credit: Kaye Evans-Lutterodt/Solar Decathlon) The U.S. Department of Energy inaugurated its biennial [...]
