WARNING: This is a development version of myUMBC. All content should be considered for testing purposes only and could be changed or deleted at any time.
During the month of August, recent high school graduates across North America are completing final preparations for college and university life. New students face countless decisions, such as...
Shady Grove Community Day and it’s September 22nd. Our theme is sustainability this year and we have lots of great events happening that anyone from 5-75 would enjoy. Mike Tidwell will be...
CoFED, the Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive, supports over 40 student teams in regions across North America. CoFED serves as a network and training program that empowers students to create...
Joe Indvik is a consultant and intrapreneur focused on finding cost-effective strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and scale clean energy. As an undergraduate and later independent...
This week, AASHE is proud to release its second STARS Quarterly Review (SQR): Innovations in Campus Sustainability. The summer 2012 edition focuses entirely on the Innovation (IN) category, an...
Last night I received the following update from Kim Smith who has been at the Rio+20 events this past week: Each day at Rio+20 brings volumes of new information about the state of our planet,...
As the heads of state have been meeting in Rio the past two days there appears to be little effort or desire to take on changing the text of the draft outcomes document that was provided by the...
Earlier this morning the official opening of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) occurred amid dreams, hopes and disappointment. The watering down of the language to...
As the negotiations continue at both Rio+20 and the G-20 Summit I'm seeing reports of both hope and fear. The hope seems to be coming from the non-government and business sectors and the fear...
The international sustainability scene is getting increasingly complex. Not only is UNCSD aka Rio+20, the world’s biggest meeting on sustainability, taking place this week but the agenda for the...