It's Every Day

For Student Affairs departments, environmental matters are important every day:

• Campus Recreation Services
  We overhauled our floor refinishing program, installed a water saving irrigation system on playing fields, and initiated a comprehensive lighting retrofit to save energy.
   
• Career Center
  We are conscientious about recycling and saving energy in our offices.  We held a Green Industry Job Fair in October 2007.
   
• Conferences and Visitor Services
  We seek to reduce, reuse, and recycle in our administrative functions and throughout every event we sponsor.
   
• Dining Services
  The newest program is "Y Bottle?" part of the program eliminating the sale of bottled water in dining Halls and offering triple filtered water for use in individuals' reusable water bottles. 
  We promote biodiesel by donating waste cooking oil, conservation, waste reduction, and composting 9,000 pounds of food waste per week and donating surplus food. 
   
• Fraternity and Sorority Life
  Greek Terps Recycle!
   
• Golf Course
  We are certified by Audubon International as a Wildlife Sanctuary!
  We changed the type of grass we plant to have  drought-resistant turf we don't have to water and we are extremely judicious about the use of any chemical, including hand applying fertilizers.
   
• Health Center
  We have an on-going recycling and environmental competition for all staff
   
• Residential Facilities
  Our Green Cleaning program means earth friendly, non toxic cleaning products are used in all residence halls.
   
• Resident Life
  Our new ECO House is a living-learning program for environmentally oriented faculty and students http://www.ecohouse.umd.edu/
   
• Student Conduct
  Environmental responsibility is a component of integrity
   
• Transportation Services
  We use biodiesel in our entire fleet, promote the use of public transportation, support recycling (even at football tailgating events) and reduce waste by putting all bus schedules on line.