There are many organizations addressing issues of sustainability in their own, unique way. Browse the Graham Institute’s listing of these organizations, listed below, or search the University of Michigan’s Maize Pages for the complete catalog of registered student organizations.
Remember, there is always the option of starting your own organization if the one you are looking for does not currently exist.
Student Organizations listed below deal broadly with environmental sustainability issues. Click on the organization names below to access more information about what the club does at the University of Michigan and how to contact club representatives.
Better Living Using Engineering Laboratory
Better Living Using Engineering Laboratory (BLUE LAB) works to find sustainable solutions to development problems at home and abroad.Challenge X Hybrid Vehicle Team (CX)
The mission of the Challenge X organization is to allow students to participate in an interesting and exciting project to develop advanced hybrid vehicle technology from the ground up with important environmental implications.
cUltivating coMmunity
The mission of cUltivating coMmunity is to develop and adopt a closed-loop food system using gardening, composting, education, and research to improve human, community, and ecological health; access to local food; and diversion of waste.
The Detroit Project
The Detroit Project exists to unite the University of Michigan and greater community with the Detroit community to create lasting change, and to maintain fulfilling partnerships by addressing social issues surrounding Detroit through active service learning.
EnAct Environmental Action
EnAct focuses their efforts on environmental activism and education through sponsored workshops and conferences on corporate responsibility, social justice, and conservation.
EnAct Recycled Notebooks
Recycled Notebooks produces fun, unique notebooks using one-sided, pre-used paper and cardboard cereal boxes. The group is involved in producing, marketing, and selling these notebooks.
Environmental Health Student Association (EHSA)
EHSA enhances the interaction of students in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and provides a forum in which topics related to environmental health and student life (curriculum, professors evaluations, advisor relations etc..) are discussed.
Environmental Law Society
ELS serves foremost as a forum for students energized by environmental issues and concerned with how the law may or may not adequately address those issues.
Focus the Nation (FTN)
Focus the Nation organizes a national teach-in on Global Warming Solutions and other related educational and awareness events.
Global Citizenship Club
The Global Citizenship Club works to raise awareness and funds for national and local charities through leading philanthropic events on campus and nationwide and encourage, recognize, and facilitate Ross School of Business interest and participation in individual volunteer activities.
Green Greeks
The Green Greeks work to encourage sororities and fraternities on campus to increase their recycling efforts and to decrease energy, water and food waste.
GrEENPEAS
GrEENPEAS is a graduate student organization affiliated with the Environmental and Water Resources Engineering that hosts a seminar series related to Environmental Science, Engineering, and Policy and participates in community projects.
Michigan Animal Rights Society (MARS)
MARS seeks to reduce human exploitation of non-human animals focusing efforts where 99% of the animal suffering occurs: the meat, dairy, and egg industries.
Michigan Students Advocating Recycling (MSTAR)
MSTAR aims to reform and organize the existing infrastructure of the University of Michigan recycling system in order to better facilitate its usage by students and staff, while increasing awareness and education about striving for a sustainable community through recycling.
Net Impact Undergrad
The purpose of Net Impact Undergrad is to provide Ross School of Business, School of Public Policy, Program in the Environment, and all other interested students at the University of Michigan with the opportunity to learn and become involved with social impact and sustainable development initiatives. This shall be accomplished through education, career development, networking, and community development.
Nourish International (NI)
Nourish International's (NI) mission is to provide the infrastructure and support for college students to think critically and implement long-term solutions to eradicate poverty worldwide. NI believes that many communities constrained by the cycle of poverty are highly entrepreneurial, dedicated, and determined, but lack the resources and opportunity to substantially improve their conditions. NI harnesses the power of socially driven students to deliver funding, resources, and talent that helps those trapped in poverty to create a real change in the their lives.
Planners Network
The Planners Network is an association of professionals, activists, academics, and students involved in physical, social, economic, and environmental planning in urban and rural areas, who promote fundamental change in our political and economic systems.
Ross Energy Club
The objective of the Energy Club is to provide Ross School of Business students who are interested in careers within the energy sector access to a forum where they can learn about the industry and interact with like-minded students, alumni, faculty and industry representatives.
Ross Net Impact
Ross Net Impact is an international network of emerging business leaders founded on the belief that true business leadership creates positive change for our economy, society, and environment.
School of Natural Resources and Environment Student Government
An elected body that works to ensure educational excellence and preserve the integrity of the School of Natural Resources by entering into agreements with the faculty and administration concerning School and department policy. The Student government coordinates educational events, social events, career development programs, and student forums.
SEEDS (Strategies for Ecology Education, Development, and Sustainability
SEEDS aims to diversify and advance the profession of ecology by promoting opportunities that stimulate and nurture the interest of underrepresented students and to reduce, over time, the serious under-representation within the field of ecology of individuals from certain minority groups. They strive to share their passion for the ecological sciences and increase exposure to environmental issues.
Solar Car Team (UM SCT)
The Solar Car team is an entirely student run organization that designs, builds, finances and races a solar powered car in competitions around the globe. Being organized like a corporation, they welcome students of all majors.
Student Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF)
SALDF’s works to provide a forum for education, advocacy, and scholarship aimed at protecting the lives and advancing the interests of animals through the legal system, and raising the profile of the field of animal law.
Students for PIRGIM (Public Interest Research Group in Michigan)
Students for PIRGIM uses education, service, and grassroots organizing to provide students with opportunities to make a difference on environmental, student, and public interest issues.
Sustainable Agriculture Work Group (SAGI)
SAGI's mission is to explore, analyze, and promote a more sustainable, local food system through education, outreach, service learning, and knowledge sharing.
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