The SM program relies on the efforts and enthusiasm of several UMD students each year to help us manage the program, engage with municipalities, and complete projects we otherwise would not have the capacity to undertake. We hope that these projects give them some "real world" experience, as well as an opportunity to discover potential career paths or fields of study. 

 

We would like to thank the following students:

• Galina Koroleva, who worked on a broad range of SM projects, including reviewing 2019 certification applications, managing the editorial process for new SM Actions, and creating a sustainability resources page for the Town of Barnesville. Galina will be back with us in 2020-2021.

• Emma Lipsky, who helped on a wide variety of admin projects, including reviewing monthly SM newsletters, managing the SM web calendar, and creating a sustainability resource page for the Town of Landover Hills.
• Priya Buddhavarapu, who helped assemble data for carbon footprint report for the Town of Middletown.
• Skylar King, who helped assemble data for a municipal carbon footprint report for Landover Hills.
• Annalise Re, an Australian exchange student, who put together a sustainability resources webpage for the Town of Capitol Heights.
• Brandon Usilton, who worked on a carbon footprint report for the town of University Park.

   

Thank you and good luck to our UMD graduates! Go Terps! 

 

And if you or a student you know would like to volunteer with the SM program this summer or fall, please contact Mike at [email protected]  

Over the summer, Sustainable Maryland will be offering assistance from UMD students to help a limited number of towns with populations of less than 15,000 people to Build a Sustainable Maryland Resource Center, a web-based compendium of local, county, regional and non-profit sustainability resources for your residents. This is an excellent tool for communicating with residents about local sustainability projects, programs, incentives, and reports, and is worth 5 points on a town's Sustainable Maryland certification application. Here is an example of a student's work with Barnesville. Please contact [email protected] or 301-405-7956 if your town is interested in receiving this assistance. 

 

"The immediate crisis of COVID-19 and the looming climate crisis both call for stronger, not weaker, environmental policies. Just as COVID-19 has laid bare the race and class inequities in American society, the pollution that causes climate change and its now-apparent negative effects (extreme storm events, heat waves, wildfires, etc.) hurt people with low incomes and communities of color first and worst."

 

- Lois DeBacker, Managing Director of Environment Program, The Kresge Foundation