EFC News

Thu, 09/18/2025 - 12:00

Environmental Finance Center (EFC) Director Jennifer Cotting has been appointed to Maryland’s BayStat Program Scientific Advisory Panel by Gov. Wes Moore. The advisory panel oversees restoration programs for the Mid-Atlantic’s largest estuary, the Chesapeake Bay, as well as the Atlantic Coastal Bays.

Thu, 11/14/2024 - 12:00

A new brief on the economic benefits of green infrastructure demonstrates the dollars and “sense” behind trails, urban trees and other landscapes, making a case for communities to “scale up” nature-based solutions. Developed by UMD’s Environmental Finance Center for the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the summary will be shared with global and U.S. policymakers at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change COP 29 in Baku, Azerbaijan this month.   

Wed, 11/13/2024 - 12:00

The Environmental Finance Center at the University of Maryland announced that 17 Maryland municipalities were honored at the Sustainable Maryland Awards Ceremony at the Maryland Municipal League’s annual Fall Conference last week. 

Thu, 11/07/2024 - 12:00

This article was originally published in Maryland Today.For the nearly 10,000 micro- and craft breweries in the United States, making suds is surprisingly soggy business. The average independent brewery uses between 10 and 20 gallons of water to make just one gallon of beer, compared to the 2:1 ratio of macrobrewers.

Wed, 10/30/2024 - 12:00

Sustainable Maryland honored 16 Maryland municipalities at the Maryland Municipal League’s annual Fall Conference on Monday, October 16. This Awards Ceremony marks Sustainable Maryland's 11th year of helping communities build a more sustainable future.To date, 89 municipalities, or 57% of the state's 157 towns and cities, participate in the program, and 26% have achieved the "Sustainable Maryland Certified" designation.The complete list of newly certified (denoted by *) and re-certified communities includes:

Sun, 06/09/2024 - 12:00

“We know that landscape architects design nature-based solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises. But how they do that is key: they design them to be even more effective and inclusive and to provide even greater benefits.”