SGA Sustainability Committee

November 07, 2016

The University of Maryland has been ranked 12th in the EPA's Top 30 College & Universities listof green power usage across the country.

September 29, 2016

The University of Maryland's 2016 Strategic Plan is 18 pages of objectives, goals and how it will get there, and 32 pages total. What's missing is any mention of this notoriously green school's sustainability initiatives.

June 28, 2016

The work being done by SSC covered by the Baltimore Sun!

February 23, 2016

February 21, 2016

The Prince George's County Planning, Zoning and Economic Development Committee unanimously passed a bill Feb. 17 that aims to ban hydraulic fracturing, a process of extracting underground natural gas deposits, from the county.

February 17, 2016

This morning, the Prince George’s County Council’s Planning, Zoning and Economic Development (PZED) Committee voted UNANIMOUSLY to pass bill 3-2016, a defacto ban on fracking in the county.

February 02, 2016

The SGA Student Sustainability Committee met with eight members of the University System of Maryland Foundation on Tuesday to promote fossil fuel divestment.

November 05, 2015

In an effort to reduce pollution in Prince George’s County and throughout the state, the Student Government Association voted in favor of a resolution to join a coalition that aims to reclassify waste-to-energy sources as Tier 2 renewable energy under the state’s Renewable Energy Portfolio standard.

October 21, 2015

The SGA unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday asking Facilities Management to publish information about potentially harmful pesticides used on campus lawns.

October 05, 2015

Rekindling a sustainability effort from two years ago, the SGA’s sustainability committee passed a resolution, which it hopes to pass next week, requesting that the University System of Maryland stop investing in fossil fuels.

September 30, 2015

As Pope Francis spoke slowly and gently over the course of an hour, at once pondering and laden with meditative significance, he simultaneously unloaded a powerful message of the impending crises we all face and the need for systemic change.

September 24, 2015

During Pope Francis’ speech to Congress on Thursday morning, he called for action “to avert the most serious effects of the environmental deterioration caused by human activity.”

September 08, 2015

Dining Services will continue its sustainability efforts by selling reusable Terp bags in campus convenience stores.