Earth Day & Sustainability Expo returns to Fredonia’s campus
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe second annual “SUNY Fredonia Earth Day & Sustainability Expo” took place to help the campus celebrate and learn about Mother Nature. ...
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Step Into Sustainability: SUNY Fredonia’s Earth Day Expo. Preview
Reading Time: 3 minutesMaisie Strader Special to The Leader Image courtesy of Fredonia.edu On Wednesday, April 22, people across the world will pay tribute to our home planet on Earth Day. But how many college students concern themselves with the day and what it stands for? “I could say that because of the internet and social media, and everybody......
Earth Day events hosted by Greystone Nature Preserve, FRED Grows and Enactus + photo gallery
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......
Reuse or abuse? The plastic predicament
Reading Time: 5 minutesJULES HOEPTING Managing Editor “Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind wanting to start again?” asks Katy Perry in the opening line of her megahit song “Firework.” The idea of plastic bags ending up in places they were never intended to be is all too......
Decisions at the bin: SUNY Fredonia campus efforts to recycle
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......
Garden art gala showcases revitalized campus garden
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......
Neat nature near Fredonia
Reading Time: 6 minutesJULES HOEPTING Design Editor Fredonia, N.Y. is a pretty good place to be. Housing is comparatively cheap, you’re an hour away from a major city, Buffalo, an hour away from another large city in a different state, Erie, and an hour away from the largest state park in New York,......
How to make the best of living on an unsustainable campus
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......
Earth day lasts longer than one day a year
Reading Time: 4 minutesAMANDA SCHEIB Special to The Leader Our beautiful home is 4.54 billion years old, and when you look at when humans came into existence, that dates back to about 6 million years ago. Our Earth is old and mystic. There are secrets we don’t even know exist, and the answers......
Growing dopamine: Why gardening is good for your mental health
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......