Join the SGA Sustainability Committee

The SGA Sustainability committee is a student group that aims to be the sustainability voice for all students on campus. We pass bills and hold events to educate the campus community, to push the university administration, and to advocate for meaningful climate and environmental action on local and state levels. Last year, we passed a bill asking the University to move it's carbon neutrality deadline to 2025 (which the university did!), held an informative environmental justice event, ran a reusable bag campaign, lobbied for a student-written climate bill in the Maryland General Assembly, investigated implementing glass recycling at restaurants and bars near campus, and so much more! 

This year, our current work includes: advocating for responsible management of Guilford Woods, including student voices and concerns in the renewal process of the campus' natural-gas fired power plant, running environmental justice events, trying to reduce the waste coming from our research laboratories, expanding composting and and off-campus, continuing our reusable bag campaign, and drafting a stipend program to pay students for unpaid and low-paid internships in sustainability. Our projects are all student-proposed and driven! Come join us to get involved in these project or to start your own project. 

We're also a social group! In past years, we've done camping trips, day hikes, and game nights. We also run a mini-grant program, where members of our committee analyze grant requests for up to $2,000. Mini-grant participants get experience critiquing, assessing, and evaluating student, staff, and faculty proposed sustainability projects. 

We meet on Thursdays at 6:30pm in the SGA Office (in the Student Organization Resource Center (SORC) in the STAMP Student Union - take a right when you enter SORC and go down the hallway until you see the SGA logo). Please email sgasustainability@umd.edu with any questions and to get on our listserv so you can get the agendas and announcements. Hope to see you at our next meeting!