4 hours per month, volunteer

Apply to join a select team of student leaders who provide an hour-long sustainability lesson to introductory classes during the Fall semester. Teach interactive lessons about sustainability and climate change and how each affects students, their studies, and future career prospects. Sustainability Advisors receive training and experience in developing skills in public speaking and peer-to-peer outreach as well as raising awareness and mobilizing action to protect our environment.

8 hours per week, $15/hour

The Office of Sustainability is now accepting applications for internships for the Fall 2022-Spring 2023 academic year. Explore our new openings and apply by May 10th on our website:

• Resident Engagement Intern

• Green Greeks Intern

• Leadership Development Intern

• Student Sustainability Network Intern

• Communications Intern

• Staff Sustainability Intern

• Outreach Events Intern

Green Dining Student Staff Positions (Farmers Market, Terp Farm, and Campus Pantry)

Fall 2022, 10 hours per week, $13 per hour

Under the direction of the Manager, the Student Staff report to and assist with daily operations of Green Dining projects including the UMD Campus Pantry, Terp Farm, and the Farmers Market at Maryland. Duties will vary according to location, but will generally include customer service, organizing, and cleaning, increasing the capacity of the overall program, planting, harvesting, and crop management at Terp Farm, assisting CCMA AmeriCorps VISTAs, and other assignments. Learn more & apply

AmeriCorpsVISTA Positions

These are 12-month Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic (CCMA)AmeriCorpsVISTA positions that begin on July 1, 2022. Learn more and browse other opportunities with AmeriCorps VISTA here. If you have questions about the UMD Campus Food System Education Project, email campuspantry@umd.edu. Questions about the Terp Farm Project, email terpfarm@umd.edu. Questions about the First Generation Student Success Project, email bbehling@umd.edu.

• The CCMA UMD Campus Food System Education Project will build capacity for the Campus Pantry Teaching Kitchen, Campus Community Gardens, and expand food literacy both on and off-campus. Apply here.
  

• The CCMA University of Maryland Terp Farm Project builds capacity for produce gleaning to bring fresh foods to the Campus Pantry and other anti-hunger partners. Apply here.
  

• The UMD First Generation Student Success Project will build capacity for First Generation Forward campus initiatives, to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy. Apply here.

Thursday, May 12th, 11am-12pm

Help your office achieve Green Office certification! Become a Green Office Representative by attending training and implementing a checklist of sustainable actions at the Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum levels. Select one or more representatives from your office to attend a 1-hour, virtual training to gain sustainable practices and tools, tips, resources, and guidance on the steps to implement improvements to your office and achieve certification!

Wednesday, May 11th-18th

As part of the residence hall move-out process, the Terps Move-Out Donation Drive serves as an opportunity for students to donate new or gently-used items to donation stations set up throughout our residence halls, with items going to support the Terp to Terp Campus ReStore, GreenDrop and the American Red Cross, the Campus Pantry, University Libraries, and DOTS/BikeUMD. In addition to donating, anyone can sign up to volunteer to sort and send goods to our campus and community partners.

Mondays 3-4pm, Thursdays 3-4pm, & Saturdays 10-11am

Drop in to any weekly work hours and assist with planting, pruning, weeding, planning, watering, or harvesting. As an added bonus, you can take home whatever vegetables, fruit, or herbs we harvest that day!

May 11th, 11am-3pm, Tawe’s Plaza

May 11 is the last Spring Season Farmers Market. Farmers Market will return to campus on August 31, 2022. Search Maryland's Best to find farmers markets open this summer. The UMD Farmers Market features producer-only local vendors from within 250 miles of College Park. Every farmer and producer selling at our market grows or makes what they sell themselves. Market Manager, Chef Larry Tumlin, offers a cooking demonstration (with free samples) at noon during each Market. The weekly SustainableUMD booth at the market offers fun sustainable DIYs or activities each week along with resources to help individuals adopt sustainable choices in their daily life.

Thank you and congratulations to all who achieved certification through the SustainableUMD Outreach Programs this academic year!

The UMD campus is used as a living laboratory for sustainability, integrating research and education with the campus itself to innovate new sustainability solutions. UMD helps advance sustainability literacy through curricular and co-curricular programming.

• Cumulatively, 18,829 students have taken the Green Terp Pledge

• 606 offices have participated in the Green Office Program

• 20,910 students have been taught through Sustainability Advisor lessons

Sally DeLeon was recently promoted to Sustainability Manager with the Office of Sustainability!

As Sustainability Manager, Sally is a systems thinker who distills priorities and manages the team in the Office of Sustainability. She tries her best to listen to divergent perspectives from partners across the SustainableUMD network and find common goals and priorities that the Office of Sustainability can use to guide strategy. She also works closely with implementation leaders for UMD’s Climate Action Plan to facilitate achievement of carbon reduction targets. She joined the Office in 2011 and dedicated herself to building out UMD’s sustainability metrics programs while improving campus-wide access to sustainability-related information. She believes in the power of UMD as a community that can create and test realistic solutions to vexing problems like climate change, food insecurity, energy-related externalities, human disconnection from nature, and more.

Before joining the UMD community, Sally garnered broad experience across the fields of sustainability education and development. She completed a fellowship at Rocky Mountain Institute where she collaborated with brilliant engineers and architects and then co-authored an early guide on climate action planning in higher education. She also taught high-school level marine biology, environmental science, anatomy & physiology, chemistry, biology, and physical science and was recognized by the University of California System for her innovative approach to making science hands-on and engaging. As a graduate student, she worked with the World Bank, the UK’s Department for International Development, and The Tiffany & Co. Foundation to educate mining industry stakeholders on sustainability opportunities and challenges in mining communities around the world. As an undergraduate, she interned at Echo Hill Outdoor School on Maryland’s Eastern Shore to provide outdoor education opportunities for elementary school students from Baltimore, Washington D.C, and the wider region. Sally holds an interdisciplinary Master of Science degree in Natural Resources with a focus on Environment, Society & Public Affairs from the University of Vermont; She earned dual bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College. Outside of work, she is frequently found enjoying outdoor adventures with her family by splashing in creeks, roaming forest trails, playing in the rare snow, or just walking with their adorable dog to the local bakery.