Exhibit Unpacks the Cost, When the Cloud Moves in Next Door
There’s a photograph on display in a new University of Maryland exhibit of a teenage boy, his baseball hat pulled low against the blinding glare of the outfield lights, pensively awaiting a line drive into center field. The iconic shot could have been taken in any American suburb, save one haunting detail: The towering data center looming just behind the fence.
UMD Researchers Awarded $1M to Address Flooding, Other Risks in Communities Near Transit Stops
Nearly $1 million in federal funding will support University of Maryland researchers’ efforts to expand affordable housing, bolster small businesses and strengthen protections against flooding in communities surrounding light-rail and metro transit stops in Prince George’s County.
2020 - 2022
Integrated Water Planning Assistance
The University of Maryland Environmental Finance Center (UMD EFC) partnered with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC EFC) to deliver integrated water planning assistance to communities. Assistance was delivered through webinars, office hours, and case study development with support from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Water.
Rachel E. Rosenberg Goldstein
Assistant Professor, Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health (GEOH)
Finding an Off-Campus Apartment Can Be Stressful. A Student-Created Platform Aims to Change That.
This article was originally published in Maryland Today. Written by Karen Shih ’09
Evaluating Community Readiness for Resilience Investment
The Environmental Finance Center worked with two Maryland communities—the cities of Annapolis and Salisbury— to evaluate their readiness to invest in climate resilience and to develop guidance to help communities lay the groundwork for effective resilience funding. The project included conducting a crosswalk of each community's key planning and policy documents, evaluating whether the communities have in place key enabling conditions for resilience investment, and developing self-assessment questions that municipalities may use to determine their readiness to inves
2020
Delaware Watershed RCPP Research and Proposal Coordination
EFC worked with partners in the Delaware River Basin to develop a proposal for an upcoming Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) funding opportunity. This process included reviewing the original Delaware Basin RCPP project, providing comments to the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) on new RCPP rules, identifying and engaging stakeholders, assessing stakeholder capacity and project feasibility, and developing an implementation plan.
2006
Delaware River Watershed Innovative Financing Strategy
The Environmental Finance Center, through the support of the William Penn Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, launched the Delaware River Watershed Innovative Financing Strategy Project. The EFC and its project partners convened an expert environmental financing panel and identified innovative and scalable options for financing Delaware River watershed restoration and protection efforts. The panel’s work resulted in a financing strategy that enabled the William Penn Foundation and its funding partners to allocate capital and funding in a way that is catalytic and ultimately successf
Integrated Funding and Financing Strategies for Hazard Mitigation Planning
The EPA is developing training materials for environmental watershed planners and hazard mitigation specialists at the state and local level to demonstrate the link between water quality protection, watershed planning, source water protection, and hazard mitigation programs. The materials will help professionals engaged in this work better understand how the concepts are related and can enhance planning efforts and improve outcomes when performed together.
2018 (June)
Informing, Improving and Expanding Water Quality Financing Through Advanced Data Management
Over the past three decades, billions of federal, state, and local dollars have been deployed to support water infrastructure projects and other programs that reduce point and nonpoint sources of pollution to the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.