Campus-Wide Groups
Campus-Wide GroupsClimate Action Steering Committee (CASC)
Join a workgroup to reduce campus carbon emissions and energy use- transportation, energy & waste, research & education, or outreach.
Join the faculty, staff, and student partnership to tackle food insecurity in our university community.
The UMBC Wellness Initiative proclaims: we are a resilient, healthy community committed to the health and well-being of each of our faculty, staff, and students. We understand the connection between self-care and our responsibility to care for the whole.
The Eco-Ambassadors are a team of UMBC students partnering with university sustainability efforts to promote social responsibility and environmental sustainability in the student body.
Student-Led Groups
For the full list of Student Organizations: Student Organization List
Students for Environmental Awareness (SEA)
SEA is a student organization that spreads sustainability and campus change through service, activism, outreach, & a strong community.
A student organization that inspires students to take action on sustainability-based issues through service-based activities.
The Garden is a Social Action and Service Organization dedicated to helping re-imagine the role of higher education in addressing problems of the world through the creation and engagement of our food garden that enables creativity in: research, applied learning, campus-community partnerships, social equity, diversity, and food sovereignty.
Our chapter of the Food Recovery Network (FRN) strives to promote awareness of the global issue with food waste. The group recovers leftovers from campus dining and events and brings it to a local homeless shelter.
Geography and Environmental Systems Council of Majors (GES COM)
The Council of Majors provides students and faculty in the department of Geography and Environmental Systems support, community, events, and resources.
UMBC Cycling Community organizes rides for all skill levels. UMBC Cycling is UMBC’s official bicycle racing team. In addition to racing, we also lead weekly group recreational and training rides including fun group and relaxed group rides from campus as well as mountain biking.
UMBC Greenpeace works to confront and expose environmental and geopolitical issues through activism and service so that the UMBC community can help preserve the well-being of the Earth and human society for future generations.
EWB partners with disadvantaged communities to improve their quality of life through the implementation of environmentally and economically sustainable engineering projects while developing internationally responsible engineering students. Currently, UMBC is working to provide clean drinking water in a village in Kenya.
