On Tuesday afternoon, City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown led members of the Buffalo Niagara CVB's Green Hospitality Initiative, in a state-of-the-art program that plants trees to "offset the negative carbon footprint" from the Solar 2009 National Conference currently being hosted in Buffalo.
A total of 56 trees will be planted in downtown Buffalo and along Delaware Avenue to offset the carbon emissions of the 1,500-person conference being held at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center. In its 38th year, SOLAR 2009 is America's leading conference on the emerging trends, technology, and opportunities shaping the new energy economy.
The
Buffalo Green Hospitality Initiative was formed in August 2007 by dozens of
Buffalo's hospitality organizations. The focus of the program is to promote a
green experience for travelers in Western New York, as well as develop and
maintain environmentally responsible practices in the Erie County Hospitality
Industry. Examples include composting of non-used food items, a hotel guest
option to have towels exchanged with fewer frequency, a bicycling lending
program by Buffalo Blue Bikes, and the tree plantings.
Why only 56 Trees?
Why not 150 Trees downtown?
By the way, I like the American Redbud in the picture and of course the Lindens have a wondeful late summer smell.
Its just sad that it takes this kind of shlock media to get trees planted in our community!
Where is Arbor Day in Buffalo?
Why dont dontown property owners care about their streetscape? There is still this slumlord mentality in Buffalo where people barely care about the inside of their building and care little to nothing about the exterior. Leave it to the city to fix a sidewalk, plant a tree, put an urn or a hanging basket on the streetscape...
Buffalo has the lowest forest canopy in the entire state of ny metro areas! Thats absolutely disgusting that we cannot even be superior in this metric.