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The University of Maryland Environmental Finance Center (EFC) partnered with TeamAg to promote business plans for regenerative farming practices targeting Pennsylvania farms that are interested in expanding soil health practices. These farm business plans combine current U.S.

Building on EFC’s 2022 Sustainability Action Plan with Timberbrook Condominiums in Gaithersburg, Maryland, EFC partnered with Green Mechanics, BLLC to help the community develop a Stormwater Plan.

Properly managing stormwater is one of the most costly and complicated tasks we face today. The effort to meet the Federal and State Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) program requirements presents challenges to state and local governments alike.

Since 2018, the Turkey Hill Clean Water Partnership has made waves in the agricultural industry; incentivizing farmers to get involved in conservation and elevating Turkey Hill’s supply chain. This groundbreaking partnership has a monumental impact on the Lancaster community, the Chesapeake Bay watershed, and beyond.

In this final report, the EFC provided a set of recommendations to the Township, including identifying and prioritizing funding sources for the Township, developing partnerships with existing local organizations, and integrating green infrastructure into land conservation planning and project site design. Attachments

There are currently dozens of policies, funding, and technical assistance programs at the federal level designed to support the implementation of green infrastructure or its components.

Recreational boating represents $2.2 billion in economic impact and over 20,000 jobs to the State of Maryland. As the word “recreational” suggests, boating is a discretionary expense and as such, boating is inextricably linked to the state of the economy both nationally and here in Maryland.

The Equitable Landscaping project focuses on providing culturally appropriate, Spanish-language training on stormwater runoff and green infrastructure skills to first-generation, Spanish-speaking Latino landscapers in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

In 2004, the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Blue Ribbon Finance Panel issued a comprehensive analysis of the sources of impairments to the Bay's water quality and living resources, the costs to remove those impairments, and a series of recommendations to finance those costs.

This event is open to undergraduate students from the University of Maryland.PlaceHack challenges student teams to rethink a place-based problem in College Park or on UMD’s campus—an underused space, a dangerous intersection, a parking lot—and conceive something new. Creativity, teamwork and pizza collide to inspire great spaces@UMD and win cash prizes!

Join us for a Thanksgiving-themed meal and gathering hosted by the School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation in partnership with the MAPP Belonging Committee. We come together to celebrate and give thanks for our vibrant school community.

The largest fundraising campaign in the university’s history aims to elevate interdisciplinary initiatives and build on momentum as a Top 20 public institution.