WNY Earth Day

	Western New York Earth Day
A Week Long Celebration

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Steering Committee
Exposition Day
Speakers Anton Nelessen Sandra Steingraber Winona LaDuke
Exhibitors
Earth Day Links
Contact Us
Our Sponsors

The WNY Earth Day Exposition will be held:

Saturday, April 20, 2002
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Buffalo State College Student Sports Arena
1300 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222
Click here for directions (pdf file)
(The Sports Arena is building number 39,
and the Erie County Computer Recycling
event will take place in Lot G. Parking is in Lot L)

Look for our 4-page paper in this month's Buffalo Gazette! Tons of info about all of the WNY Earth Day events - when you're finished with it, pass it on to a friend.

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Pre-Expo:

9:00 am - Noon - Scajaquada Creek Clean-Up, meet at the American Legion Post on Amherst Street. For more information, contact Jim Pavel at: jpavel@city-buffalo.com

Expo Activities will include:

Click here for a more detailed description of Expo Activities

10:00 am - Lake Erie Scouts Badge Activities
and
Olmsted Park Tour (meet at the back steps of the Albright Knox)

2:00pm - Reptiles and Amphibians of the world - presented by James Vitale

11:00 am - Nan Hoffman, folk guitarist and singer

3:00pm - Lake Erie Scouts Badge Activities

Noon - Pondlife - presented by the Buffalo Audubon Society
and
Press Conference - Earth Day Proclamation

4:00pm - Portable Fossil Digging Activity - presented by the Hamburg Natural History Society

1:00pm - Owl Facts - presented by Sharon Tiburzi
and
Lake Erie Scouts Badge Activities
and
"Keeping Your Yard, Garden, and Neighborhood Nature-Friendly: What Every Citizen Needs to Know" presented by Sally Cunningham

Also throughout the day- a Scavenger Hunt (start at the Sierra Club table), Wall Mural Creation Station, Sidewalk Chalk Drawing, Fresh Popped Popcorn, and Earth Friendly Food Vendors including Common Grounds, Feelrite, Lexington Co-op, and more!

ALSO: Please bring your rechargeable batteries to recycle at Erie County's Expo table (popcorn table). Acceptable rechargeable batteries include: Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd), Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH), Lithium-ion (Li-ion), and Small Sealed Lead (PB).

AND: Please bring your old computers to recycle for the Erie County Computer Recycling event. Items acceptable for recycling and/or disposal include: CPUs (Hard-Drive), CRTs and Monitors, Keyboards, Mouse, and Printers. The event will be taking place in Lot G (see above map link). For more information, call 858.6370.

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Steering Committee:
Buffalo Audubon Society	Erie County Environmental Mgmt Council
Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy	Erie County Soil & Water Conservation District
Buffalo State College Native American Student Organization	Great Lakes United
Center for Great Lakes Environmental Education	Inside/Out Political Consultants, Inc.
City of Buffalo	League of Women Voters of Buffalo/Niagara
Clean Air Technologies	NY Department of Environmental Conservation
Clean Communities of WNY	NY Public Interest Research Group
Eco-Justice Commission of Presbytery of WNY	Partners for a Livable WNY
Erie County Department of Environment & Planning	Sierra Club - Niagara Region
Honorary Board: NYS Senator Byron Brown NYS Assemblyman Sam Hoyt Carol Kaplan	WNY Land Conservancy

Exhibitors - Click here for registration form (pdf) - Please note: the zip code to send the registration form is 14202

Adirondack Mountain Club	Lakeside Wellness
Bangally Conteh African Art Emporter	Lexington Co-op
Buffalo Association of Professional Geologists	NY Department of Environmental Conservation
Buffalo Audubon Society	NY Farms!
Buffalo Zoo	NY Public Interest Research Group
Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy	NY Sea Grant / Great Lakes Program
Buffalo Organics	NYS Bluebird Society
Buffalo State College Great Lakes Center	NYSERDA - McKinley Project and others
Buffalo State College Newman Center	NYS Parks Interpretive Office
Buffalo Zoomobile	NYS Urban & Community Forestry Council
Center for Great Lakes Environmental Education	Niagara Heritage Partnership
Citizens Campaign for the Environment	NOCO Energy Corp.
Citizens' Environmental Coalition	Organic Whole-Food Supplements
Citizens Regional Transit Corp.	Partners for Urban Resources & the Environment
City of Buffalo - Support Services	Penn Dixie Paleontological & Outdoor Nature Center
Clean Air Technologies	Recycle-A-Bike of Greater Buffalo
Clean Communities of WNY	Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve
Copper Sculptures by Mark Ballantyne	Saibo African Imports
Earth Heart	Scajaquada Creek Watershed Advisory Council
Eco-Justice Commission of Presbytery of WNY	Second Chance Wildlife Rehabilitation Center
Ecology & Environment, Inc.	Shaklee Wellness
Energy Co-op of New York	Sierra Club
Erie County Soil & Water Conservation District	Ten Thousand Villages
Erie County Water Authority	Tifft Nature Preserve
Fleet Waterfest	UB Green
Foothills Trail Club	US Army Corps of Engineers
Friends of the Buffalo Niagara Rivers	US Fish & Wildlife Service
Girl Scouts Council of Buffalo and Erie County	WNY Land Conservancy
Glazed Structures	WNY Society for Organic Horticulture
Great Lakes United	WNY Sustainable Energy Association
Green Party of Erie County	W.M. Schutt & Associates
HSBC	Zero Population Growth
International Joint Commission

Dr. Anton Nelessen, "Creating a More Livable Western New York" -A Unique Audience Participation and Visual Preference Survey and Workshop on Land Use and Design
Friday, April 26 at 7:30 p.m. - Rockwell Hall, Buffalo State College

For more information about Dr. Nelessen, visit www.anavision.com

Anton Nelessen has more than 38 years experience as a teacher, author and practitioner in planning, visioning and urban design. His firm, A. Nelessen Associates, Inc., is a national pioneer in community planning through public participation. His extensive experience includes downtown redevelopment plans for midtown Atlanta, Milwaukee and Cambridge, MA and new town plans for Belgium and South Africa, and a national plan for the Netherlands. He is the author of A Vision for a New American Dream - Process, Principles and an Ordinance to Plan and Design Small Communities. His work has been featured in Newsweek, Consumer Reports, numerous newspaper articles, and on public television networks. His Buffalo presentation will emphasize ways we can improve the quality of life in our Western New York communities - notwithstanding our declining population and shrinking tax base. Bring your colleagues, friends and teenagers to this fast-paced, entertaining and provocative evening. Admission is $5.00 (students are free). For advance tickets call 878-3005 or send check payable to BSC/PAC to Buffalo State College/PAC, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, RH 210, Buffalo, NY 14222. For more information call 847-5490. For a more in depth bio,
click here.

Dr. Sandra Steingraber, "Conversations with Sandra Steingraber"
Thursday, April 18 at 7:00 p.m. - Allen Hall, University of Buffalo (South)
This presentation will also be broadcast LIVE on WBFO. Tune in if you can't make it in person!
and
"Living Downstream"
Friday, April 19 at 1:30 p.m. - Center for the Arts Screening Room, University of Buffalo (North)

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For more information about Dr. Steingraber, visit www.steingraber.com

Internationally recognized ecologist and author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment and Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood, Steingraber will present her personal and professional expertise on the the effects of environmental chemicals during pregnancy and breastfeeding on Thursday, April 18 and on Friday,April 19, Steingraber will address toxics and cancer. Free admission. Jointly sponsored by the Environment and Society Institute and the Presbytery of WNY. For a more in depth bio, click here.

Winona LaDuke, "A Call for Environmental Justice"
Wednesday, April 24 at 7:00 p.m. - Bulger Communications Center, Buffalo State College

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Winona LaDuke was born in 1959 and grew up in Los Angeles, CA. She is an Anishinabe Indian from the Makwa Dodaem (Bear Clan). After graduating from Harvard she made herself known internationally as an advocate for environmental justice. Although she considers herself a journalist by trade, her heart has never left her advocacy work on behalf of the environment. It was serving as Ralph Nader's running mate in his presidential campaign in 2000 that catapulted her out of the shadows of mainstream America and into the homes and hearts of people everywhere. Her latest book is "Last Standing Woman". For a more in depth bio, click here.

Check out these Earth Day links!
Earth Day Network	The Lorax Saves the Trees Game
Earth Day Teacher Resources	Kids Connect: The Environment
Blue Mountain Earth Day E-Cards	U.S. EPA Explorer's Club
The Wilderness Society - Earth Day
Climate Change Calculator
Ecological Footprint Calculator
Environmental Timeline	Click here to download (pdf) the Happy Earth Day coloring book from the US EPA
NYS Home Energy Analysis
	Click here to learn more about the history of Earth Day from Senator Nelson Gaylord, founder of Earth Day in 1970 (pdf)

Without the support of our wonderful sponsors, these events would not be possible. WNY Earth Day would like to thank the following organizations for their generosity:
Hallmark
Erie County Environmental Management Council
Buffalo State College Student Union Board
Ecology & Environment, Inc.
NOCO Energy Corp.
NYSEG
HSBC
Steward
Buffalo State College Great Lakes Center
Friend
UB Green
Newman Center at Buffalo State College
Wellness Center
Speaker Sponsors
University at Buffalo Environment & Society Institute
WNY Presbytery
Buffalo State College Native American Student Organization
Buffalo State College Auxiliary Services Grant Allocation Committee
This site will be continually updated until April 19, 2002. Last updated 4/19/02.

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