EcoReps help launch grant-funded plastic bag recycling campaign
Rochester is one of four New York colleges and universities to receive a grant to fund innovative environmental projects as part of the College Council Grant Program.
Climatologist speaks on ‘Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms’
James Hansen, adjunct professor at the Earth Institute at Columbia University and former director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies will speak on Monday, April 20, in Hutchison Hall.
EPA recognizes University for waste-reducing efforts
The WasteWise program helps organizations and businesses apply sustainable materials management practices to reduce municipal and industrial wastes. WasteWise participants reported preventing and diverting a total of nearly 7.6 million tons of waste from being disposed in landfills or incinerators in 2013.
Sustainability, astrobiology combine to illuminate future of Earth’s technological civilization
How long can a technological civilization last? Will human-caused climate change or species extinctions threaten its collapse or can industrial development continue without restrictions? In a new paper, two astrophysicists argue that these questions may soon be resolvable scientifically.
Lake sturgeon making a comeback in the Genesee
Blood-sampling studies led by comparative medicine professor and chair Jeff Wyatt are showing promising signs for the fish, for the once-troubled embayment of the lower Genesee — and, potentially, for the local economy.
University named Tree Campus USA for fourth straight year
Arbor Day Foundation has named Rochester a “Tree Campus USA,” is a national designation created in 2008 to honor colleges and universities that have a commitment to effective urban forest management.
Edible art
The New Media Fermentation Workshop, a collaboration between University professors Leila Nadir (sustainability) and Cary Peppermint (art and art history) meets in Burton Hall. The workshop consist of students making their own personal vegetable ferments, such as kimchi, and new media art students who will be documenting and remixing the experience. The workshops are part of EcoArtTech’s new work-in-progress, Edible Ecologies, which involves collaborating with local communities to resuscitate historic food practices and foodways.
From farm to table
Diana Lacona (right) buys potatoes from Erik Fellenz of the Fellenz Family Farm at the grand opening of the University Farmers Market in the Flaum Atrium of the Medical Center.
EVENT: Global Feast Highlights Local Foods at Rochester
Now in its eighth year, Local Foods Week spreads awareness of Rochester’s initiatives to support local produce and provide sustainable food options.
Go Green: The University’s Surplus Property Programs
Several programs exist to buy and sell furniture and other large items within and outside of the University including the Medical Center Surplus Property Program, the Corporate Purchasing Surplus Property Program, and Currents Classifieds.