Green Matters
Green Campus Practices
UB Thinks Green
Campus Environmental Impact
UB Green's Climate Action Report describes how our operations affect global warming and how the university might reduce that impact. Town hall meetings will encourage more dialogue.
Campus Environmental Sustainability
The University at Buffalo Thinks Green: this report by the campus Environmental task Force, discusses campus environmental sustainability (April 2004).
- UB establishing green incubatorUB’s Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach (STOR) has awarded $1.5 million by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to establish a clean energy business incubator program that will provide business support to accelerate the successful development of early-stage, clean energy technology companies in Western New York.
- Solar energy to power student apartmentsThe New York Power Authority has awarded UB $7.5 million to construct a 1.1-megawatt solar-energy array on the North Campus that will generate clean energy directly from the sun for students living in the university’s apartment complexes.
- UB reviews draft climate action planMembers of the university community gathered to publicly review and comment on a draft plan to transform UB into a climate neutral campus.
- Outcome brilliant on LEDsLights are shining more brightly on the North Campus this winter because UB has swapped some conventional lamps for LEDs—light-emitting diodes.
- By Going "Trayless," UB Student Dining Centers Will Reduce Food Waste 50 PercentStarting this week, students in three dining centers on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus will be carrying individual plates -- not trays -- to their tables as part of UB's effort to go "trayless."
Green Matters
Experts
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Joseph A. Gardella, Jr., Ph.D.
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Barry Boyer
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James N. Jensen, Ph.D.
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Diana Aga, Ph.D.
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Jason Briner, Ph.D.
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Joseph F. Atkinson, Ph.D.
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A. Scott Weber, Ph.D.
The Big Picture
UB is home to one of the nation’s few chemistry service-learning programs where students focus on environmental concerns in urban communities.