In November 2007, the Environmental Stewardship Committee (ESC) was created to direct UB’s efforts toward fulfilling our commitment of achieving climate neutrality and ensuring that UB is moving toward sustainability.
The Office of Sustainability works with a broad range of campus and community groups, including the UB Environmental Stewardship Committee, to facilitate the university's Climate Action Plan (PDF), which calls for UB to achieve climate neutrality by 2030.
The Sustainability Round Table is a coalition of students, faculty and staff that works at the grassroots level to bring sustainability projects and ideas to fruition.
Through UB’s Center for Educational Collaboration 1,000
students in the Buffalo public schools have been offered
opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math.
More than $3 million in grants have been awarded to the Buffalo
Promise Neighborhood initiative to provide
"cradle-to-career" support to Buffalo schoolchildren.
Sustainable Futures, a service learning program in architecture,
landscape architecture and planning, is conducted in
Monteverde, Costa Rica and hosted by the Monteverde Institute, the
University at Buffalo, and other universities.
A Senior Environmental Design student from UB won the 13th
session of the International Winter University competition for
their proposal on how to fix the uncontrolled
development of Irkutsk, Russia.
The UB Green office is created, providing environmental
stewardship for campus facilities. Today, the office’s
efforts include offering assistance to groups both on and off
campus.
10/25/12
UB releases its Climate Action Plan, which draws from the
university’s comprehensive plan and sets a goal of achieving
climate neutrality by the year 2030.
10/25/12
UB’s environmental efforts begin with the creation of the
Rachel Carson College, named for the author of “Silent
Spring,” the book that sparked the environmental
movement.
10/25/12
UB hires its first energy officer and creates the Conserve UB
program, which leads to energy conservation efforts that have saved
the university more than $100 million.
10/25/12
UB becomes an initial signatory of the American College and
University Presidents’ Climate Commitment, a pledge to reduce
the global emission of greenhouse gases.
10/25/12
The university appoints Ryan McPherson as its chief
sustainability officer, charged with creating a culture of
sustainability at UB.
