UB Professional Staff Senate

 

On September 21, 2011, the 3rd annual Greener Shade of Blue and You Day will be held at the University at Buffalo on the North Campus. This free event will feature lectures, door prizes, demonstrations, and vendors offering ways to “green” your home and reduce your environmental footprint.

Greener Shade of Blue and You is designed to raise awareness of environmental stewardship and provide UB students, faculty and staff an opportunity to visit vendor representatives and learn how to green their homes and as well as make the community more sustainable by reducing their personal environmental footprint.

Events and Demonstrations

• Visit the Undergraduate Academies table anytime during the event to create your own pinwheel, which will serve as a small-scale wind turbine!
• Order your very own Composter! We've arrange for exclusive pricing for GSB attendees, which includes delivery to your home - check out the flyer for details!
• Dispose of those expired and unused prescription and over-the-counter medications so they don't end up in the groundwater! Drop them off at the UB School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences table!
• Recycle those old alkaline batteries safely, as well as toner cartridges and cell phones (see below)!

GSB Vendors 2011

Vendors with ideas and solutions for making communities more sustainable. Watch as our list of Vendors with ideas and solutions for making communities more sustainable grows!

• AWARE - Association for Wild Animal Rehabilitation and Education, Inc.: Cares for orphaned, injured and distressed wildlife. As a part of our goal, we offerlive educational programs to the general public using live disabled, but healthy birds.
• Buffalo First:  building a local, green and fair economy in the Buffalo-Niagara region. Encourages people to shop locally, helps independent businesses access local goods and services in order to root more dollars here, preserve community, and create a healthier environment.
• Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper: Community-based non-profit group that uses legal, scientific, and policy tools to defend the Niagara River region ensuring clean water and healthy environments. Information about upcoming programs and events will be available.
• Buffalo Recycling Enterprises: provides a recycling solution for Buffalo and the surrounding communities by installing a world class single stream recycling system. 
• Buffalo Zoo: The 3rd oldest Zoo in the U.S. established in 1875. Promotes wildlife conservation through education and participation in projects worldwide to restore endangered species populations and preserve habitat.
• Cornell Cooperative Extension: educating communities and promoting sound environmental agricultural practices including integrated pest management and energy saving information fromn the NYS Energy Research Development Authority's Energy Smart Communities program.
• Engineers for a Sustainable World: Mobilizes students and faculty members through new educational programs, sustainability-oriented design projects, and volunteer activities that foster practical and innovative solutions to address the world's most critical challenges.
• Erie County Department of Environment and Planning: initiate programs which address small business and local government pollution prevention; solid waste management; hazardous waste management; indoor air quality and, energy efficiency.
• Farmers & Artisans: forging a connection between the farmer and the eater to their mutual benefit.
• Gleason Geothermal: a renewable energy compnay providing geotheraml heating and a/c systems, home energy audits, snow melt systems and radiant floor heating.
• Goodwill: specializes in helping people develop their gifts and skills, assisting them in their search for employment, and providing job retention services, assuring our clients succeed at one of life’s most important challenges: finding and keeping a job. 
• Greater Buffalo Niagara Regional Transportation Council (GBNRTC): focused on establishing a comprehensive, coordinated, and continuing transportation planning process for Erie and Niagara Counties’ metropolitan area. Under GoodGoingWNY, ffers a carpool-matching program as well as information on other travel choices - transit (Metro bus/rail), the location of park-and-ride lots, and bicycling.
• Green Options Buffalo (GO-Buffalo): works to create healthy, environmentally sustainable, community friendly transportation in the Greater Buffalo Region.
• GrowWNY: hyperlocal source of information about living green--powered by organizations collaborating for our regional environment and YOU.  
• Harbison Bros.: Reconditions and recycles steel drum barrels.
• Imagine It: fundraising Through Recycling - Imagine it has created an easy and FREE recycling program that concentrates on the most important component in our sustainability efforts... REUSE! 
• Liberty Tire: Using recycled tires, manufactures crumb rubber products that can be used in everything from road resurfacing to home and garden products.
• Melaleuca: "The Wellness Company" Develop, manufacture and sell over 350 of the world's leading wellness products for home and family.  Carefully craft products with the highest standards of safety, health, and wellness in mind.
• Modern Disposal: provides recycling, commercial and residential waste removal, landfill, industrial cleaning, sanitation and environmental services to commercial, industrial and municipal customers.
• NFTA-Metro: Provides efficient and professional transportation services that enhance the quality of life throughout the Buffalo Niagara region in a manner consistent with the needs of our community.
• National Grid: Provides electricity to Upstate New Yorkers. Committed to reducing pollution, protecting wildlife, protecting wetlands, minimizing climate change, conserving natural resources, and promoting awareness.
• New York Power Authority: A national leader in promoting energy efficiency and the development of clean energy technologies and electric vehicles. Locally, the Niagara Power Project generates hydropower and educates the public on alternative energy.
• Pinwheels for Peace: Everyday, we are bombarded with television images, video games, music, and magazine articles/newspapers that give importance to conflict and war. Violence has become commonplace and accepted as part of our society and, for some, it is a way of life. It is our hope that through the Pinwheels for Peace project, we can make a public visual statement about our feelings about war/ peace/ tolerance/ cooperation/ harmony/ unity and, in some way, maybe, awaken the public and let them know what we are thinking. 
• PUSH Buffalo:  mobilizes residents to create strong neighborhoods with quality affordable housing, expands local hiring opportunities and advances economic justice in Buffalo.
• Salvation Army:  offers hope for a better life by meeting basic human needs through disaster relief, emergency family assistance, senior services, adult rehabilitation services and employment services. 
• Shaklee: Offers natural, green cleaning products, non-toxic natural cleaning choices that are safe, powerful, green and smart.
• Sierra Club Niagara: one of the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organizations in the United States, founded by John Muir in 1892. Works to promote a safe and healthy community in which to live and smart energy solutions to combat global warming. Currently focusing on hydrofracking issues in the region, NYS climate change policy, and wetlands protection in WNY.
• Solar Liberty: Promotes energy independence through widespread installations of grid-tied photovoltaic solar energy systems. We design and install solar electric systems. We further promote the technology through wholesale distribution of PV components.
• Sunnking: Founded in 2000, Sunnking Inc. is New York States first EPA R2 Certified Electronics Recycling, Data Destruction, & Asset Management company dealing in end of life electronic equipment. Their facilities located in Buffalo, Rochester, and Brockport, NY, specialize in collecting, refurbishing, reselling, and recycling electronic products from residential and commercial suppliers throughout New York State and surrounding areas.
• Sustainable Earth Solutions: assist people and organizations in reducing their reliance on natural resources through: Creative Thinking skills; Environmental/Sustainability Consulting; Facilitation; Leadership training and coaching; and Training and empowering youth to act as Change Agents.
• UB Campus Dining and Shops: showcasing their composting program and offering tips on how to compost at home.
• UB Career Services: UB Career Services can help you explore careers related to sustainability.  Find out how to search for green jobs, internships and volunteer opportunities, how to identify and network with professionals at “green” companies, agencies and community organizations.  Checkout: www.student-affairs.buffalo.edu/career/green.php.
• UB Green: The primary campus organization advocating, developing, and implementing programs which promote environmental sustainability of campus operations and encourage eco-literacy. Our areas of advocacy include energy conservation, green power and renewable energy, recycling and waste reduction, green building design, and green purchasing.
• UB Parking and Transportation Services: Why drive when you don’t have to!  Hop on the UB Stampede or shuttles to get around and between the campuses.  You can even take your bike on the UB Stampede.  Join Zipcar for access to wheels when you want them.  Ride the Metro Rail for free – passes are available to eligible students, faculty and staff.  Carpool and get a preferred parking space.
• UB School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences: will be collecting expired/unusable pharmaceuticals and over the counter drugs to properly dispose of them. Drugs that are not properly disposed of end up in our water and cause ecological harm. Clean out your medicine cabinet and drop them off here!
• UB Student Assocation (SA): Providing information about environmental events and other points of awareness. We'll also take suggestions on what we can do to advocate environmentally at UB.
• Undergraduate Academies:  living and learning communities that bring together university faculty, staff, alumni and students. Visit their table to create your own pinwheel, which will serve as a small-scale wind turbine! Learn about these great alternatives for generating electricity.
• Viridian: Welcome to Viridian! We are so excited to welcome you to Viridian Energy. Viridian offers customers a simple and powerful product - greener energy at affordable prices. We are thrilled to be a part of a company that empowers its customers to save money AND help the environment. How is this possible? The deregulation of energy has allowed customers the opportunity to choose their electricity supplier. Switch your energy supplier today in just minutes on our site and you are on your way to a cleaner, more affordable energy for your home or small business. Our power is Viridian!
• Weaver's Guild of Buffalo: an organization that promotes weaving. We weave on and off looms, spin, knit and also do basketry. We love to do demonstrations and let others give it a try. We welcome new members and can be reached thru the Amherst Museum 716-689-1440 or Peggy Kresovich at poodlesbytheoodles@yahoo.com.

Bring Your Old Cell Phone

Bring Your Old Cell Phone! Cell phones will be donated to benefit the Buffalo Zoo through http://www.MariahSavesGorillas.com.

Questions and More Information

If you have questions, contact Jim Simon at UB Green (jrsimon@buffalo.edu, or 716-829-3535) or Janiece Jankowski at the Professional Staff Senate (jk18@buffalo.edu, or 716-645-1312).