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Earth Day events hosted by Greystone Nature Preserve, FRED Grows and Enactus + photo gallery

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Reading Time: 2 minutesTANNER CLARK Special to The Leader Earth Day, which annually takes place on April 22, bloomed into an array of events offered in Fredonia on a beautiful Friday afternoon.  Greystone Nature Preserve hosted this event with two campus clubs: FRED Grows and the Planet Division of Enactus to celebrate the......
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Decisions at the bin: SUNY Fredonia campus efforts to recycle 

Jules Hoepting
Reading Time: 5 minutesJULES HOEPTING Managing Editor  Plastic soda bottle in hand, you stand in front of a waste receptacle in Fenton Hall. You read the departments on the receptacle from left to right. Are you holding onto mixed recycling? Onto a refundable container? Or is it just waste?  For the past three......
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Garden art gala showcases revitalized campus garden

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Reading Time: 4 minutesCHLOE KOWALYK Asst. News Editor  Have you noticed the new fencing and flowers around the garden next to the Science Center greenhouse?  A group of five students: Abby Hart, Jules Hoepting, Meg Munro, Sydney Schawartzott and Yuwan Ilano were hand-picked by Dr. Christina Jarvis to take her ENGL 399 Sustainability......
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How to make the best of living on an unsustainable campus

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Reading Time: 4 minutesJESSICA MEDITZ Editor in Chief LYDIA TURCIOS Special to The Leader Most of us are probably aware of the environmental apocalypse that is brewing in the world right now. Luckily, there are endless suggestions and resources on how to reduce your carbon footprint and do your part to save the......
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Growing dopamine: Why gardening is good for your mental health

Jules Hoepting
Reading Time: 2 minutesJULES HOEPTING  Design Editor Study after study has shown gardening is good for the brain and the body. And in a time of unprecedented stressors, finding ways to keep yourself healthy is essential.  So, why not pat some seeds into some dirt? Growing and eating your own food has proven......
Opinion

Paper or plastic? The power behind your choice

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Reading Time: 3 minutesANNA GAGLIANO Copy Editor Every single choice we make on a day-to-day basis affects us, whether or not you’d like to believe it.  One simple phrase has set people up for an important choice for decades now: “Paper or plastic?” Uttered by cashiers and clerks around the world, this choice......

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