| Overall Rating | Silver |
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| Overall Score | 45.57 |
| Liaison | Steven Sypniewski |
| Submission Date | Jan. 24, 2025 |
SUNY Buffalo State
PRE-2: Points of Distinction
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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Sarah
Reid Campus Planner Campus Planning |
Name of the institution’s featured sustainability program, initiative, or accomplishment:
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the institution’s featured program initiative, or accomplishment:
Since 2015, every April Buffalo State University celebrates Arbor Day and Earth Day with a series of events.
2024 Arbor Day and Earth Day Events
Join us to help Celebrate the 2024 Arbor Day and Earth Day events throughout the month of April! Earth Day is Monday April 22 and Arbor Day is Friday April 26. For information - Campus Planning Office. All events are open to the Buffalo State University Community and to the public.
Wednesday April 3 – National Walking Day – Walk to work, take the stairs or park further away - American Heart Association encourages you to stretch your legs and walk for health.
Monday April 8 - Solar Eclipse
Tuesday April 16 - Arboretum Lecture Series - Rebuilding Buffalo's South Park Arboretum - Margaret Lapp - Director South Park Arboretum, Olmstead Parks Conservatory - 6:00 pm - Costello Hall - JVL Alumni and Visitor Center - Steven Sypniewski - Campus Arborist
Wednesday April 17 - NYS Archealogical Assoc. and the Maud Gordon Holmes Arboretum lecture - Human Dispersal of the Paw Paw into WNY - Stephen Tulowiecki, PHD - Asst. Professor SUNY Geneseo - 7:00 pm - Cummings Room - Buffalo Museum of Science - Susan Maguire
Thursday April 18 – Earth Day & Arbor Day Sustainability Fair – 12:00 – 2:00 pm Campbell Student Union - Steven Sypniewski - Campus Arborist
Tuesday April 23 – Arboretum Tour – Hank Mann Quad - 12:00 - 1:00 pm - Steven Sypniewski - Campus Arborist.
Friday April 26 - Campus Bird Watching Walk and Talk - 7:30 am - Location TBA - Campus Planning Office
Friday April 26 – Arbor Day Ceremonial Tree Planting – 11:00 - 11:45 am - East Side Bishop Hall - Steven Sypniewski - Campus Arborist
Friday April 26 – Arbor Day Speaker - The Relationship of the Common Honeylocust and the Native American Community Before European Settlement - Robert J. Warren II, PHD - Biology Department - 3:00 - 4:15 pm – Rm. 160 Technology Bldg. - Campus Planning Office
All events approved and sponsored by the Buffalo State Campus Planning Office, Sustainability Committee and the Friends of the Maud Gordon Holmes Arboretum. Contact campus planning; sypniess@buffalostate.edu for more information, or if there is an event suggestion to add to the schedule.
A photograph or document associated with the featured program, initiative, or accomplishment:
Name of a second featured sustainability program, initiative, or accomplishment:
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the second featured program initiative, or accomplishment:
The Friends of the Buffalo State Maud Gordon Holmes Arboretum was instituted in fall of 2016 to help bring our once beautiful campus landscape back to its former glory. The Friends of the Maud Gordon Holmes Arboretum are sustained by donations and volunteers to help in any way that supports the mission of the Arboretum. The Friends of the Maud Gordon Holmes Arboretum seek to restore much of what was lost in the October storm of 2006, emerald ash borer infestation and construction loss and have sponsored several tree planting days or “Big Digs” using donated funds and volunteers to plant trees across campus. They have also sponsored making our tree database publicly available on the arboretum website and other educational opportunities. Come be part of this great organization. Since 2019, Buffalo State University has had 6 BIG DIG events, (April 2019, November 2019, November 2021, November 2022, November 2023, October 2024), resulting totalling over 200 new trees installed.
A photograph or document associated with the second featured program, initiative, or accomplishment:
Name of a third featured sustainability program, initiative, or accomplishment:
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the third featured program initiative, or accomplishment:
Since 2022, Buffalo State University has the distinction of being a Tree Campus Higher Education institution. In March 2024, the Arborday Foundation awarded Buffalo State University the 2023 Tree Campus Higher Education designation. This shows that Buffalo State University is committed to maintaining and continuation of development of its urban forest.
https://arboretum.buffalostate.edu/
https://arboretum.buffalostate.edu/tree-campus-higher-education
https://www.arborday.org/programs/tree-campus-higher-education/
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