New UMD Sustainability Video:

President Pines is encouraging all to tackle climate change, one of the campus Grand Challenges!

Earth Day is April 22nd, and UMD is celebrating all month!

Weekly Talks about UMD Campus Sustainability - Learn more

UMD Bike Week 2021: April 5-10 - Learn more

Global Sustainability Forum: April 21st with MD Senator Pinsky hosted by SustainableUMD & Center for Global Sustainability - Learn more

Nature, Race, and Relational Trauma- April 16, 12 PM the relational trauma in being disconnected from nature Learn more

Environmental Racism: Continuing the Fight & Restoring our Earth- April 22, 4-5 PM With Public Heath Prof. Dr. Sacoby Wilson. Learn more

Carbon Dioxide Removal- A Call to Action- April 23, 1 PM Maryland Energy Innovation Earth Day Event. Learn more

Earth Month Teach-Ins, Movie Nights & Student Events - Learn more

The UMD Office of Sustainability is seeking a Web Design & Communications Intern for Summer 2021!

We will have an installation at the DOTS Art Park for Park(ing) Day!

Our installation will be located by HJ Patterson from April 12-May1 11, and features upcycled and reclaimed materials.

Solar powered LED lights symbolize energy, a bird bath symbolizes water, a bike symbolizes transportation, and planters growing greens symbolizes food. Many of the SustainableUMD partners and focus areas are featured in the installation.

The Green Terp staff team including staff, interns, and ambassadors from the Office of Sustainability as well as Resident Life and additional partners from DOTS and Facilities helped bring this work together!

Sustainability Fund Awards Over $400K to 10 Campus Projects

10 projects were awarded $405,065 this academic year—the second-highest amount the Sustainability Fund has ever distributed. One project that was funded was a Mobile Sustainability Outreach Center, featured in the image above.

Since 2011, the Sustainability Fund, supported by student fees, has given around $3.2 million to 156 such projects, which help improve the environmental performance of campus operations, bolster opportunities for Terps to learn about sustainability, and contribute to research on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, decrease waste and more.

The next deadline for faculty, staff, and students to apply for funding is Oct 15, 2021

UMD project provides community planners a “how-to” for integrating health-boosting green infrastructure (Read more)

South America Rapidly Losing Natural Ecosystems, New UMD Study Shows: lost 20% of natural ecosystems since 1985 (Read more)

Climate change led to a 21% loss in global agricultural productivity growth since 1961, new research from the University of Maryland (Read more)

UMD-led study suggests that supporting Indonesian women in conservation science can help save local biodiversity (Read more)

New Tools to Protect Children From Environmental Toxins that Impact Neurodevelopment developed by UMD researcher (Read more)

UMD analysis shows that canceling new coal power would decrease air pollution-related deaths & prevent 326,351 additional deaths in 2030 (Read more)

UMD Researcher worked with area of Nigeria, helped turn invasive cattails from weeds into animal feed and clean-burning fuel (Read more)

Nettle research: Common Weed could boost the immune system, fight obesity (Read more)