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It's Earth Week! Grow Local

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by GrowWNY on April 17, 2012 ( What's New )

veggies_littleYesterday, the focus for our Earth Week series was energy.  Some articles discussed the need to reduce energy and others offered suggestions for how to go about reducing your energy consumption.  Today, our third day of the Earth Week series, we focus on the topic of: "Growing – Local and sustainable food and gardening options in Western New York".

It's sometimes hard to comprehend the issue of global warming here in the Northeast, but if the record March temperatures didn't make you wonder, then how about the troubles that local farmers are having with their crops.

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It's Earth Week! Conserve Your Energy Use

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by GrowWNY on April 16, 2012 ( What's New )

gas_1_littleMonday we kicked-off our Earth Week series with great success.  In this second part of the series, local environmental experts and community leaders focus on the topic of: "Energy – Renewable energy and efficiency at home and at work".

Energy efficiency reduces our nation's overall demand for resources needed to make electricity and decreases the amount of human-made carbon dioxide leading to climate change.

Some people may wonder what impact climate change will have on Western New York.  In the first article in this second part of the Earth Week series, Terry Yonker of the Great Lakes Wind Collaborative shares some scientific predictions of what kinds of climate changes we will see here at home and the impact on our local communities.
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It's Earth Week! Enjoy WNY's Great Outdoors

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by GrowWNY on April 15, 2012 ( What's New )
30-milelight_littleWe promised to feature new stories on GrowWNY.org written by local environmental experts and community leaders each day leading up to Earth Day, April 22.  Today we kick-off the Earth Week series with our first topic: "Western New York’s Great Outdoors – Preserving, improving and enjoying our Great Lakes region".

Situated between two Great Lakes, Erie and Ontario, Western New York is truly a watery place and many wonderful local outdoor places have water running through them.

In the first Earth Week article, Mark Baldwin, Director of Education at Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History in Jamestown, shares about Western New York's

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UB Solar Strand Dedication and Opening

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by UB Office of Sustainability on April 15, 2012 ( What's New )
UB Solar Strand Dedication and Opening
Monday, April 23, 2012, 11 a.m.
Flint Road, North Campus
ACROSS FROM THE CENTER FOR TOMORROW
On the day after Earth Day, please join the University at Buffalo and the New York Power Authority for the dedication and opening of the “UB Solar Strand,” the 3,200-panel photovoltaic array that has been constructed on UB’s North Campus.
This initiative, brought to life by world-renowned landscape architect Walter Hood, is multipurpose and merges teaching, learning, art, research, sustainability and community engagement.
The Solar Strand represents an innovative approach toward obtaining carbon neutrality and lessening our environmental footprint on the future while welcoming our students, faculty, staff and community members at the gateway to our campus.
It will generate enough carbon-free energy to power approximately 700 student apartments, as well as serve as a natural classroom for kindergarteners to PhD students.
Hood, founding principal of Hood Design, professor and former chair of the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of California-Berkeley, will speak at the event.
Other speakers will be Gil C. Quiniones, President and CEO of the New York Power Authority; Dennis R. Black, vice president for university life and services; Robert G. Shibley, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning; and Shivani Kamodia, human health and environmental sciences student.
Free parking will be available in the lot across from the Center for Tomorrow.
solar_strandOn the day after Earth Day, please join the University at Buffalo and the New York Power Authority for an 11 a.m. dedication and opening of the “UB Solar Strand,” the 3,200-panel photovoltaic array that has been constructed on UB’s North Campus.

This initiative, brought to life by world-renowned landscape architect Walter Hood, is multipurpose and merges teaching, learning, art, research, sustainability and community engagement.

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Public Dollars for the Triple Bottom Line - Planet, People & Profit

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by Micaela Shapiro-Shellaby, Coalition for Economic Justice on April 15, 2012 ( What's New )

cej_1In this next article in the Earth Week series, Micaela Shapiro-Shellaby of the Coalition for Economic Justice discusses their work building a movement to drive corporations to address the triple bottom line: planet, people, and profit, and pushing legislative changes that make public dollars equal public good.

Last year, the Coalition for Economic Justice (CEJ) joined the Western New York Environmental Alliance (WNYEA) to be a part of the growing collaboration of organizations that are dedicated to a more environmentally, as well as economically, just and sustainable Western New York.

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