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True cost

To be committed to saving the planet, recycling, conservation, these concepts like so many other endeavors in human history have been perverted and twisted into idiot marketing schemes, sound and righteous fury, signifying nothing.What does it mean, hypothetically, if a certain on-campus coffee shop offers recycled packaging, to lessen corporate impact on rainforests, but also uses a coffee blend that relies on deforested land to grow?Absolutely bupkis.


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Get your green thumb ready

Since the October storm of 2006, thousands of volunteers have picked up shovels and started digging into their sense of community, helping replant trees in Buffalo and surrounding suburbs, restoring the natural beauty of the Queen City.


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Shoring up the green movement

Spring is here - and just like your dorm rooms and apartments, the environment needs a little spring cleaning, too.That's why volunteers from all over Western New York joined the Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper's Spring Shoreline Cleanup last Saturday at over 35 locations along the shores of Buffalo creeks and the Niagara River."It was a record-breaking spring cleanup... with a 25 percent increase in volunteers from our highest-ever amount," Bentkowski said.


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Brown honored with Academic All-MAC team selection?



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