Green Your Commute

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Green Your Commute Challenge

Join Us on May 15, 2020

UB is participating in the Green Your Commute Day on May 15, 2020. Join us as strive to reduce our carbon emissions by greening our commutes.

Register for the Green Your Commute Fall Challenge

How You Can Participate

  • Walk
  • Bike
  • Ride public transit
  • Car pool
  • Drive an electric vehicle, or use another form of sustainable transportation (not driving alone in a gasoline-powered vehicle)

Check-In. Get Rewarded.

UB community members will be rewarded for choosing alternative transportation to get to their campus! Stop at one of our check-in stations between 8 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. to receive a little something special for participating.

Check-in stations will be located at:

  • South Campus — Main Circle
  • North Campus — Founders Plaza
  • Downtown Campus — Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Follow Along on Social Media

While on your commute, and in a safe manner, take a selfie and post it to social media to let everyone know about your awesome green commute!

Follow along on Twitter @ubparking.

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Why Green Your Commute

Transportation represents the largest source of New York State's greenhouse gas emissions and also the largest part of most New Yorker's personal carbon footprint as well. This is why it is critically important that we all lower our emissions from transportation so that we can meet our greenhouse gas emission reduction goals (a 40% reduction by 2030 and 80% by 2050). Plus, you may discover that a more sustainable commute is both relaxing and enjoyable! 

Calculate Your Commute and Emissions Costs

More Resources on How to Green Your Commute

There are many resources available to help you find a more sustainable way to commute. Here are just a few:

Google Maps - Go to Google Maps and click on "get directions". You can enter your start and end points and the mode of transportation you want to use and it will tell you the easiest way to get to work via walking/biking/public transportation.

511 NY Transit Trip Planner - You can use the Transit Trip Planner at 511ny.org to plan your trip using public transit or find others who are going in the same direction as you to carpool with, using 511NYRideshare.

Bike NY - Find bike routes with DOT's Bike NY interactive map.

Bike Share Systems

Buffalo – Bikeshare at UB and Reddy Bike Share

Learn more about electric vehicles - Use the links below to learn more about driving an electric vehicle:

NYSERDA Drive Clean Rebate

ChargeNY

Your Local Public Transit Provider

NFTA (Buffalo and Western New York)