Women in the Sustainable Economy II: Taking Place

"Women in the Sustainable Economy" is a special mini-series that Greenworks || Buffalo Niagara is happy to present quarterly as part of its bimonthly speaker series Business Gets Green. Come hear from a panel of three women working to push sustainability initiatives and improve the local economy. This event is free and open to the public.

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Speakers include:

Sarah Bishop, Executive Director of Buffalo First!, will talk about her work bringing the national conference of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) to Buffalo, NY in June 2013. Buffalo First! has been working tirelessly to organize this event, which will bring national leaders in local and small business development to Buffalo. Buffalo First! is a local non-profit whose mission is to build a local, green, and fair economy in the Buffalo-Niagara region. They promote shopping locally and work to get our local businesses' names out there to the community at large. When we shop locally, more dollars circulate and multiply in our regional economy and create a healthier environment. Learn more here: http://www.buffalofirst.org/

Crystal Surdyk, Administrative Manager at Joy Keubler Landscape Architect PC, will talk about Designing to Live Sustainably (D2LS), a design competition for youth. For 2013, D2LS asks, "How would you design a space in the City of Buffalo to promote living sustainably in a neighborhood there, and for the City of Buffalo as a whole?" D2LS sees opportunities in Buffalo's vacant and under-utilized properties and allows for international submissions of architectural and site designs which incorporate a long-term environmental, social, and economic benefit. Check out D2LS here: http://www.d2lsbuffalo.com/index.php

Brenda Young, Ph.D., LEED AP, Daemen College Center for Sustainable Communities and Civic Engagement. Dr. Young has been leading the charge to promote environmental responsibility at Daemen College and the larger WNY community for years. She maintains positions on the board of directors of both the Buffalo Audubon Society and WNY Sustainable Energy Association, and is an active member of the WNY Environmental Alliance. Dr. Young was also key in developing the website www.growwny.com. In her work as a biology professor at Daemen, she developed EcoTrail, a think tank that promotes environmental literacy, investigation, and stewardship among students of the greater Buffalo community. Learn more about sustainability initiatives from Dr. Young's popular EnviroNews here: http://www.daemen.edu/offices/academicaffairs/econews/Pages/default.aspx