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Environment and Sustainability

News about UB’s environmental programs and related sustainability initiatives.

5/13/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Sixty-two percent of Americans now say they believe that global warming is happening, but 46 percent say they are “very sure” or “extremely sure” that it is not. Only 49 percent know why it is occurring, and about as many say they’re not worried about it, according to the April report of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.

5/10/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Most Americans want the U.S. to place more emphasis on developing solar power, recent polls suggest.

5/8/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Bill McKibben, author of a groundbreaking book on global warming and founder of the global grassroots climate action campaign 350.org, will deliver the 2013 commencement address for UB’s School of Architecture and Planning on Friday.

5/7/13

Leading environmental citizens from Western New York will meet at the University at Buffalo on May 8 for an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workshop devoted to leveraging community participation as a tool for monitoring the environment.

4/26/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Bird lovers can exhale. Yankee, the male peregrine falcon nesting at South Campus, has found a new mate.

4/19/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Solar power plants are often located behind fences, on rooftops or in hard-to-reach places.

3/21/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Elevator B, a honeycomb-themed tower housing bees on Buffalo’s waterfront, has won a highly-regarded international architecture award.

3/19/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The work wasn’t glamorous, but it had to be done.

3/13/13

BUFFALO, N.Y. – State wildlife officials today safely captured a female peregrine falcon that had been nesting in MacKay Tower on the University at Buffalo’s South Campus.

3/5/13

The cleanup of one of Brooklyn’s hottest neighborhoods holds lessons for preserving a community’s industrial identity in the face of gentrification, a new study finds.