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Campus Sustainability at Maryland
The University of Maryland Office of Sustainability supports and advances environmental performance, economic prosperity and social equality through a variety of initiatives. The staff facilitate the development and implementation of sustainable policies, practices and curricula for the campus community.
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Campus Sustainability Report 2008
Released by the Office of Sustainability, the 2008 Report addresses some of the advancements toward sustainability in the past year, upcoming projects, and the integration of sustainability into the new University Strategic Plan.
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The Stamp's Green Page
Learn all about the Green initiatives that are happening in the Stamp!
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@LAST - Applying Today's Learning to Achieve Sustainability Tomorrow
Your choice of courses, activities on campus, advocacy for green infrastructure at UM, and involvement with communities beyond campus can all lead towards the progress we have envisioned for the next decade. Our own practices as students, faculty, and citizens are effected by our ability to recognize the interrelated issues involving sustainability. With this education, we can foster the changes in behavior that are needed to keep our planet a viable home for generations to come.
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America's Greenest Campus
America's Greenest Campus is the first nationwide contest among colleges to reduce the carbon footprints of their students, faculty, alumni and staff.

Think your school is green? Well, now it's time to walk the walk! You have until October 5 to get as many people affiliated with your school to reduce their carbon footprints as much as they can!
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SmartPower
SmartPower is a group dedicated to furthering the market share of alternative energy technologies. They not only want consumers to make smarter choices about the energy they use in the future; we also want them to be smarter about the energy they are already using. SmartPower's mission is to help build the clean energy marketplace by helping the American public become smarter about their energy use.
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Energy Action Coalition
The Energy Action coalition unites a diversity of organizations in an alliance that supports and strengthens the student and youth clean energy movement in North America. The partners of Energy Action work together to leverage our collective power and create change for a clean, efficient, just and renewable energy future. The work of Energy Action is focused on four strategic areas: campuses, communities, corporate practices, and politics.
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Sierra Student Coalition
The Sierra Student Coalition (SSC) is a network of high school and college students from across the country working to protect the environment. The SSC is the youth-run (age 14-30) chapter of the Sierra Club, the nation's oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization.

Our mission is to develop leaders for the environmental movement by training, empowering, and organizing youth to run effective campaigns that result in tangible environmental victories.
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Green Report Card
GreenReportCard.org is the first interactive website to provide in-depth sustainability profiles for hundreds of colleges in all 50 U.S. states and in Canada. Information is based on extensive research conducted for the College Sustainability Report Card.
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Campus Climate Challenge Campaign Planning Guide
This planning manual talks about ways to reduce the carbon footprint of your campus!
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Ecological Footprints
There are many simple ways to reduce the footprint you leave on the planet. Learn how to reduce your footprint in each consumption category–carbon, food, housing, and goods and services—but don’t stop there. Amplify your impact by encouraging others to follow your lead. Engage your friends and community with local and global movements for social change, or start your own movement!
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Foundation for Sustainable Development
FSD supports the efforts of grassroots organizations in the developing world that are working to better their communities, environments, and the economic opportunities around them. We believe development begins with the community and is only sustainable if it comes from and is supported by the members of these communities. Through our programs, we aim to raise international awareness of the challenges in developing countries and support cross-cultural communities in finding more effective solutions to development issues.
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Grist
Environmental news and commentary that offers “astute advice on all things environmental.”
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