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Environment

A New Lease for Grassroots Gardens

Biking and Walking

Buffalo’s Sprawl: Fiscal, Environmental, and Social Costs

Businesses and Recycling

Citizen Air Quality Monitoring

Cooling Global Warming Through Transit

Education and Collaboration Can Reduce Buffalo’s Disposable Bag Consumption

Encouraging Sustainable Transportation at the BNMC

Erie County Watershed Protection Resources

Expanding Maintaining or Phasing Out Nuclear Power in New York State

Front Park’s Past and Future

Getting the Lead Out

Global Warming Pollution Control Act

Green Building Ordinance

Greening Buffalo’s Vacant Lots

Greening Executive Summary and Recommendations

Green Infrastructure for Buffalo’s Green Code

Greening the Richardson Complex

How to Incentivize Benefit Corporations

Land Bank

Multi-Family Residences and Recycling

New York Funding for Vacant Lot Greening

On Bill Financing Bringing Energy Savings to Buffalo’s Low Income Residents

Reshaping Buffalo’s Recycling Initiatives

Refugees, Food Insecurity and Community Gardens

State Funding for the NFTA Reduces Pollution, Fights Poverty, and Promotes Economic Development

Taking the Net Zero House to Scale

Urban Farming

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