Dear UMBC Community, UMBC's Office of Sustainability engages with the campus community in numerous ways to help inform our work to promote sustainability within our interconnected environment,...
September 7, 2021
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1:05 PM
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Sustainability on Tap (SoT) networking session @GCSHE
Do you know an advanced-degree/graduate student who is attending the upcoming Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education (GCSHE)? Are they also doing interesting...
September 1, 2021
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9:18 AM
30+ new locations on campus for plastics recycling!
UMBC now offers collection and recycling of all clean plastic bags, films, and wraps! These items can be placed into one of the 35 yellow bins located throughout campus. The bins will be placed on...
August 31, 2021
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10:45 AM
Call for Presentations/Panels
CALL for PARTICIPATION 2021 CONFERENCE and THEMATIC PROGRAM of EVENTS: – RADICAL CLIMATE JUSTICE for the GLOBAL COMMONS – On August 9, 2021 the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change...
August 26, 2021
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2:55 PM
Help out the Baltimore City Farmers Market!
Looking for an easy opportunity to help the environment? Baltimore City Department of Public Works (DPW) is recruiting volunteers to help out at the farmers’ markets on Saturday and Sunday...
August 24, 2021
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9:00 AM
Welcome back retrievers! Embark on a sustainable journey!
Welcome back retrievers! To welcome our community members back to campus, we invite you to embark on a sustainability scavenger hunt using our (UMBC) Sustainability Campus Map Application. You...
August 23, 2021
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8:31 AM
Join the UMBC Dining team & make a difference!
Are you interested in sustainability and ready to make your mark at UMBC? Look no further because @umbcdining is hiring for a Sustainability Intern! This paid hands-on internship position will...
August 17, 2021
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1:00 PM
Review Climate Change Intensity-Duration Frequency Curves
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Integrated Science and Assessments (MARISA) Team has launched a new interactive tool from the makes climate-change informed intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves...
August 12, 2021
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1:11 PM
Test the skills you learned in class on a real project!
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is an annual collegiate competition that challenges students to design and build high-performance, low-carbon buildings that mitigate climate change...
August 11, 2021
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9:01 AM
Take a detailed look at our progress towards net-zero!
Each year, UMBC measures the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the operation of our campus to better understand our direct contribution to the heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere – the...
August 11, 2021
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9:01 AM