UBuffalo Sustainability

📢 Another sustainable news post! 🌱☀️

UB’s North Campus is shining bright with the recently constructed solar arrays from the 2020 on-site solar project. They’re generating electricity like pros! ⚡🔋

Swipe to see the impressive numbers! ➡️

🌟✨ Exciting from South Campus! Our ongoing renovation project at the BRB (Biomedical Research Building) has just taken a big step forward. We’ve replaced all the fluorescent lights in the 6-floor building with energy-efficient LED fixtures! 💡🌱

LED lights are up to 80% more efficient, offering significant economic and environmental savings. Check out our infographic to learn more about this project. 🌿

Happy Pollinator Week! 🌸 Check out how UB supports our campus pollinators and stay tuned for the latest updates on our campus gardens! 🐝🌿

📸: Douglas Levere, Nanticoke Gardens

Meet the newest member of our team, Genevieve, our Communications and Outreach Student Assistant! 🌟 Learn more about Genevieve and her role!🌍♻️🌱

📢 WE’RE HIRING! 📢

UB Sustainability is looking for a Communications Student Assistant to help with the programming and advertisement produced to our office. See the flyer above for more details; must have at least a 3.0 GPA and be able to work 15-20 hrs/week.

Apply now!

Special thanks to everyone who came to our seed starting program today! Now let’s sit back, relax, and Let It Grow 🌸

Make sure to submit your community service hours under UB Sustainability on UbLinked to get credit.

It’s seed starting time! Join us this Wednesday to start seeds for ! Let it grow!

Little Salmon is a local business focused on zero waste living. If you haven’t already, stop by and think about shopping local, using zero waste products, and reusable containers.

We apprecIate Little Salmon for supplying our dryer ball pilot program!

Little Salmon is a local business focused on zero waste living. If you haven’t already, stop by and think about shopping local, using zero waste products, and reusable containers.

We apprecIate Little Salmon for supplying our dryer ball pilot program!

It’s SDG Action and Awareness Week!

Those unfamiliar might ask themselves: what are the SDG’s? Established by the UN in 2015, these 17 goals were created as a framework for global prosperity with a focus on responsible resource consumption and social equity. They are a “shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet now and into the future.” While ambitious, they promote large-scale globalization and the sharing of ideas connected to resource use and social equity, among other aspects. The generality of these goals is not meant to be misconstrued as the end all be all for sustainable development, but rather a structured system for individual goals to be blackboarded off of – they need to work in tandem in order to be effective. Within each goal is its own set of smaller goals that can be used to guide small-scale development. UB is proud to utilize this framework within our 10-in-10 Climate Action Plan!

Our Student Sustainability Impact Team are reminding people of proper recycling and waste management for the rest of the basketball season. If you see those blue jackets, say hi! And ask them all of your recycling, compost, and waste questions. GO BULLS 🤘

To request to have members of our SSIT team at YOUR events, use the link in our bio!

Our HIRED thrift store pop up was a success! Thank you to everyone who volunteered, donated, and participated. Together we diverted over 500 clothing items from our landfills.

If you did not get the outfit you were looking for, find us at HIRED professional clothing boutique on campus! Link in bio.

Celebrate the launch of our Campus Dryer Ball Pilot. Some of laundry rooms have been stocked with dryerballs for students to use, return, and share in their communities! Sustainable practice incorporates community!

If you happen to use them, tag us and let us know what you think! Make sure to return them when you are done, so we can bring these to more laundry rooms on our campus!

Sustainable Student Highlight:

One of our many wonderful student assistants, Nicole, was provided the opportunity to partake in a study abroad program in Costa Rica to explore the cultural sustainability that is inherent in many of the cultures that exist there. Be on the lookout over the next couple weeks as we post more about Nicole's experiences and observations!

“In this picture, we are walking around an agroforestry, showing us a complete juxtaposition to monoculture. The farmer grows a variety of crops from banana, cacao, star fruit, turmeric, and many more. He respects the land and stays away from adding any sorts of pesticide.”

Some excellent shots of and the ☀🔋 taken by our very own .levere !

Our friends outside Buffalo are sure to feel the chill just by looking at these 🥶❄️

Some excellent shots of and the ☀🔋 taken by our very own .levere !

Our friends outside Buffalo are sure to feel the chill just by looking at these 🥶❄️

UB Sustainability wishes you all a wonderful Thanksgiving and hope you can enjoy this time off to be with the friends and family you love the most 🦃 🍁

Today we deployed our SSIT team to help winterize and repot the outdoor plants at GroW Clean Energy Center!
We got dirty, had some laughs, and secured some annuals 🌱 🌺

Thanks to everyone who helped out!

And of course, huge thanks to Ken Parker from the for all of his knowledge and wisdom that led to a swift and well-performed task ✅

Join us in Spaulding Parking lot B on October 28th for Trunk or Treat!
Compared to the traditional aspect of Halloween where you go to stranger’s homes, this event will provide a safe space for community members to bring their little ones without having to worry about hygiene or the time it takes to get from house to house. There will be prizes for best costume 🥸 and voting for best trunk 🚗, as well as other giveaway prizes!

Get your spook on the safe way and come get some candy from us! 🎃 🍬

Next week is International Open Access Week, a period celebrating the marvels of research without barriers. Reducing obstacles that block access to key research is essential in the overall goal of producing equitable pathways to knowledge sharing and subsequent innovation; it is the future of sustainability!

This year’s theme for Open Access Week is climate justice, and UB Libraries is hosting a panel discussion next Thursday, October 27th at 11AM to promote an equitable future for research. Please attend if you’re able to, your voices mean more than you think!

Registration info is in our LinkTree.

The Student Sustainability Impact Team (SSIT) is finally here! ♻️

We created this program to increase visibility of our office and expand engagement with our student body by providing them the opportunity to perform visible, high impact work around campus. Comprising of 18 members, our team will work to fulfill sustainable requests by departments, units, and student clubs on campus. With this program, we will help UB reach its 10-in-10 goals sooner than later!

We invite you to browse our catalog of activities and services on our website, which you can find within the Linktree in our bio! 🔗

This is an exciting new pilot program that will expand the scope of our office in ways previously unattainable.

Welcome to the new way of achieving sustainable progress 🫶

Raffle for wrappers 🍬? This month, bring your candy wrappers to Wilkeson Coffeehouse for a chance at winning a Nintendo Switch! 🕹️

“Research shows that in the United States alone, more than 600 million pounds of candy are purchased each year for Halloween. The vast majority of candy wrappers end up in landfills due to an inability by most curbside recycling programs to recycle them.”

Some excellent shots of the Beane Center undergoing solar panel installation!

Due to either structural integrity concerns or preexisting systems, most of UB’s roofs are not able to handle paneled equipment, but the roof over Facilities headquarters is flat and structurally sound, making it the ideal candidate for solar power 🌞🔋

Photo: Douglas Levere

Tomorrow is Orange Shirt Day!
When you wear an orange shirt, you are recognizing the atrocities that the Canadian Residential School System had on indigenous communities as a result of forced assimilation. Stand in solidarity with our native friends on campus!

Happy everyone!!!! We are kicking off this week with highlighting 5 of the 10 Climate Action Goals UB has to reach by 2030. For each day of the week we will be hosting an event linked to one of the goals and showing how you, as a student, can get involved and make UB a more sustainable campus. STAY TUNED!!!

Click the link in our bio to see the full list of events :)

🚨 UB Sustainability is HIRING! 🚨

We're looking for a passionate undergraduate student to fill the part-time role of GRAPHIC DESIGNER. The ideal candidate will have an interest in fulfilling sustainable initiatives through the use of design elements such as Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator, among other relevant applications. 🧑‍🎨🧑‍💻

To view the full posting, click the link in our bio and apply today!

This post relates to SDG 2: Zero Hunger

The world produces enough food to feed everyone on this planet, so why are a quarter of people food insecure? Building sustainable, resilient food systems is a holistic way of combating many problems on our planet. About 25% of all greenhouse gas emissions come from food production. Agriculture is at the whim of our changing climate. Obesity and chronic illnesses are on the rise due to diet.

Be an active participant in your food system- learn about where your food comes from, its environmental impacts, and about concepts like “food justice” and “food sovereignty.

Tight schedule ⏰ this year but still want to make a difference on campus? Join our Student Sustainability Impact Team! ♻️This PAID position is perfect for those who can only commit an hour or two a week to helping out our office with tasks around campus.

Be an agent for change and advance UB’s 10 in 10 goals by applying today! 📈 🌎

Link in bio; all applications due September 9th.

We’ve got the gold! 🌟

“UB’s submission for the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System, or STARS, was just certified Gold by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, the organization that runs STARS, a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance.”

“There’s no finish line when it comes to sustainability and climate action. We must continue to work to create the world we seek.” - Ryan McPherson, Chief Sustainability Officer at UB.

Register today for the Cannabis Design Challenge! Sponsored by Blackstone LaunchPad and UB Business and Entrepreneur Partnerships, this action-learning experience will lead you to meet with industry leaders, expand your network, and develop product innovation that could potentially alter industry standards in NYS.

Applications are due 7/6!