Join ReUse and PUSH for a karaoke contest tonight at 10 at the Essex Street Pub! Come cheer or Boo for Team ReUse or Team PUSH (of course you will cheer for us…we are much better singers) and enjoy a beer or two or five or six!

After asking around PUSH and ReUse I can be fairly certain that ReUse could win tonight’s competition. The only story I’ve heard about PUSH’s karaoke experience  involves  forgetting the lyrics to their song and getting booed by the crowd.  Although ReUse does have some amateur karaoke singers up in the competition, I’ve been told that Michael’s singing can drown out anything considering how loud he sings, so maybe his talent will make up for the newbies and bring us to victory!

It doesn’t really matter who the better team is(… ReUse), just come out and have some fun with us!

Dear Friends,

The Food and Emerging Media Speaker Series is picking back up with a talk by Eyebeam Executive Director Amanda McDonald Crowley entitled:

Food in the City

THURSDAY APRIL 1st at 7 pm at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. The talk is free and open to the public – please help spread the word!!!

Hope to see you all there!

Amanda McDonald Crowley is Executive Director at Eyebeam in New York http://www.eyebeam.org. She is a cultural worker, curator and facilitator who specialises in creating new media and contemporary art events and programs that encourage cross-disciplinary practice, collaboration and exchange. Amanda was executive producer for ISEA2004, the International Symposium for Electronic Arts 2004, held in Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland, and on a cruiser ferry in the Baltic sea. She was Associate Director, Adelaide Festival 2002 and in this position was also Chair of the working group that curated the exhibition and symposium ‘conVerge: where art and science meet’. From 1995 to 2000 she was Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) where she made significant links with science and industry by developing a range of residencies for artists in settings such as science organizations, contemporary art spaces and virtual residencies online; developing cross-disciplinary masterclasses for artists and curators; as well as beginning to establish links with media artists and organizations in Asia. She previously worked with a range of arts organizations in Australia including the Australia Council for the Arts (the federal government’s arts funding and advisory body), Arts Training Australia (conducting research for a multimedia education and training strategy), and Electronic Media Arts Australia (incorporating the Australian Video Festival). She has done residencies in Berlin, Germany (1994/5), Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada (2002) and at Sarai in Delhi, India (2002/3), regularly speaks at international conferences and festivals, occasionally writes for journals such as Artlink, RealTime, the Sarai Reader, and Art Asia Pacific; and lurks on a lot of media, technology and culture related email lists. She’s an avid cook, amateur gardener, and is currently pursuing research on “Food in the City” with the Eyebeam Sustainability Research Group.

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS!
Join us on
MONDAY, APRIL 5, 2010
12:00 – 5:00
For a Soda Pop Exchange at the Broadway Market
VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED TO WORK THE TABLES – TO SIGN UP, CALL YVONNE HAIRSTON, 881-5150 EXT. 4402
What:
For every 20oz bottle or 12 oz can of soda pop that people bring receive a FREE quart of milk
For every 1 liter bottle or 3 12 oz cans of soda pop that people bring receive a FREE ½ gallon of milk or juice
For every 2 or 3 liter bottles of soda pop that people bring receive a FREE gallon of milk or juice.
For more information on the event please visit www.healthiernynow.org

Paula Alcala Rosner, Director of Urban Assisted Agriculture
Community Action Organization of Erie County (CAO)
70 Harvard Place
Buffalo, New York 14209
716-881-5150 ext. 4768
Work cell phone: 846-4408

The Canisius College Institute for the Study of Human-Animal Relations
and The William H. Fitzpatrick Institute of Public Affairs and Leadership
proudly announce a special lecture:

Gombe and Beyond: The Next Fifty Years
Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE
Founder ? the Jane Goodall Institute
UN Messenger of Peace

Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Doors open at 6:30pm. Seating is limited.
Canisius College Koessler Athletic Center (Main and Delavan)

Free and open to the public. All members of the community are welcome.

In July 1960, Jane Goodall began her landmark study of chimpanzees in what is now Tanzania under the mentorship of famed anthropologist and paleontologist Dr. Louis Leakey. Her work at Gombe Stream would become the foundation of future primatological research and redefine the relationship between humans and animals.

In 1977, Dr. Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), which continues the Gombe research and is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. Today, the Institute is widely recognized for establishing innovative, community-centered conservation and development programs in Africa, and Jane Goodall?s Roots & Shoots, JGI?s global environmental and humanitarian youth network, which has almost 150,000 members in 110 countries.

Dr. Goodall travels an average 300 days per year, speaking about the threats facing chimpanzees, other environmental crises, and her reasons for hope that humankind will solve the problems it has imposed on our planet. She continually urges her audiences to recognize their personal responsibility and ability to effect change. ?Every individual counts,? she says. ?Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.?

Dr. Goodall?s scores of hon ors include the Medal of Tanzania, the National Geographic Society?s Hubbard Medal, Japan?s prestigious Kyoto Prize, Spain?s Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, and the Gandhi/King Award for Nonviolence. In April 2002, Secretary-General Kofi Annan named Dr. Goodall a United Nations Messenger of Peace, and she was reappointed in June 2007 by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. In 2004, in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace, Dr. Goodall was invested as a Dame of the British Empire, the female equivalent of knighthood. In 2006, Dr. Goodall received the French Legion of Honor, presented by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, as well as the UNESCO Gold Medal Award.

Dr. Goodall?s list of publications includes Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species are Being Rescued from the Brink, two overviews of her work at Gombe ? In the Shadow of Man and Through a Window ? as well as two autobiographies in letters, the bestselling autobiography Reason for Hope and many children?s books. The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior is the definitive scientific work on chimpanzees and is the culmination of Dr. Goodall?s scientific career.

She has been the subject of numerous television documentaries and is featured in the largescreen format film Jane Goodall’s Wild Chimpanzees (2002). She also has been featured in five Animal Planet specials ? Jane Goodall?s Return to Gombe, Jane Goodall?s State of the Great Ape, Jane Goodall?s Heroes, When Animals Talk and most recently, Almost Human.

UB Green Library Open House
 
Thursday, March 18th
 
7:00pm-9:00pm
Poster contest winner announced at 8pm
 
220 Winspear Avenue
Refreshments will be served
 
Come and join the festivities while we celebrate the UB Green library.  On display will be an exhibit featuring art and posters from green campaigns that UB has been involved with throughout the years as well as recent pieces submitted by students.  The winner of our poster contest will be announced and celebrated at our event. 
 
We are also proud to showcase an updated “green building and design” section for all of those architects, planners, or do-it-yourselfers out there.  It doesn’t stop there… Yes, we have gone digital, we can finally say good-bye to VHS!  We will also be featuring the new titles that have been added to our library. The library will be hosting some other events this semester for you to keep an eye out for like a movie night and get-togethers for group discussions on a few books and related topics. UB Green library should have an answer to any of your green questions, come on over and see what it’s all about.  Don’t miss out!

“Ven a una Fiesta!” We can’t dance without you! Join everyone at ReUse on Friday, Februrary 19 for music and dancing at our fundraiser hosted by El Buen Amigo located at 114 Elmwood Avenue! Get your tickets now or at the door.

Enjoy Latin food & bebidos, a live band, a member of the Latin Jazz Project, plus a pre-show salsa lesson for those who don’t know which direction to shake their hips. We hope to see you there! Call 716-885-6343 for details.

For ticket information click here.

Ticket sales contribute to Buffalo ReUse’s mission of neighborhood revitalization and community programs.

As a newcomer to Buffalo ReUse, I am amazed every day at the work this organization does for the Buffalo community and our environment. With only four days left until the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition premiere, it is a perfect time to discuss the impact Buffalo ReUse had on our community through the Extreme Makeover process.

Through the Green Demolition of the Powell home we reused and recycled a total of 870 tons of material including bricks, stone, metal, and concrete. If that 870 tons of materials had gone to a landfill, it would cost $21,750 to dump, but instead ReUse reinvested those materials into the Buffalo community and our environment through reuse and recyling.

Editor’s Note: A few people have questioned this number, saying it’s too high. Emily is reporting this correctly, based on WasteCap’s diversion report for the entire project. WasteCap’s numbers are correct, but they’re reporting on the entire project, not just the green demolition. We’re still analyzing the figures, but it’s safe to say when we remove clean fill, concrete and stone from this equation our diversion rate of what would normally be thrown away is way up there in the 80-90% range. We’ll report more as we get a handle on the numbers. (Kevin Hayes)

By diverting 93.3% of the waste from the Powell house within 15 hours, we have proven the value and effectiveness of green demolition. Instead of wasting tons and tons of material by sending it to a landfill, that material can be reused to improve our community, provide a cheaper alternative to new material, and create jobs through the green demolition process.

The Extreme Makeover experience has also shown the benefits of green demolition for individuals. By choosing green demolition over traditional demolition, individuals can help themselves and their community. When you contract with a traditional demolition company, you pay for their services, your house is crushed into rubble, then the rubble are buried in a landfill. By contracting a green demolition with Buffalo ReUse, you get more for what you pay for:

• You receive up to half of the cost of demolition back when you file your taxes
• You make useable materials like windows, tubs, brick and doors available to the public
• You help the environment because there is less debris to bury in the landfill
• You help the community because many people are looking for lower cost materials
• You build Buffalo because we use the revenue to improve neighborhoods

We are very proud of the impact Buffalo ReUse makes on the Buffalo community, and we hope you will all come to join us in celebrating one of our accomplishments at the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition premiere on January 24th!