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In this next article in the Earth Week series, Micaela Shapiro-Shellaby of the Coalition for Economic Justice discusses their work building a movement to drive corporations to address the triple bottom line: planet, people, and profit, and pushing legislative changes that make public dollars equal public good.

Last year, the Coalition for Economic Justice (CEJ) joined the Western New York Environmental Alliance (WNYEA) to be a part of the growing collaboration of organizations that are dedicated to a more environmentally, as well as economically, just and sustainable Western New York.

In this next article in the Earth Week series, Megan Mills Hoffman, Development Coordinator at Western New York Land Conservancy, shares how farmers Bree Bacon and Richard Woodbridge are restoring their family's historical 100-acre farm in Lockport.

When two people make a decision to return as the next generation to settle their family’s historical 100-acre farm, things are bound to become interesting.  When those two people come from a long family farming legacy, with experience in Arizona, California, Russia, and India, they’re sure to carry a vision big enough to inspire a region.

In this next article in the Earth Week series, Lauren Makeyenko of the Buffalo Museum of Science / Tifft Nature Preserve talks about the blue, green, and brown stories of Tifft Nature Preserve and updates us on Tiffts plan for the future.

Mama doe about to give birth (Photo by Jay Burney)

OPINION / COMMENTARY

In this Earth Week article, Jay Burney of Friends of Times Beach Nature Preserve and the Learning Sustainability Campaign introduces us to Times Beach and the history and future of this globally significant site.

Our region has amazing natural assets that not that many people are familiar with.  Times Beach Nature Preserve (TBNP), located in downtown Buffalo across the Buffalo River from Canalside, is one of them.

The 55 acre nature preserve is one of the remaining ecologically productive sites on the shorelines of the entire Great Lakes ecosystem.  Human development caused fragmentation of natural areas has promoted a vanishing of habitat and has serious impacts on wildlife.  As a result TBNP has become a focal point for migrating and breeding birds, other animals including deer and fox, and a variety of frogs, turtles, and beneficial insects including butterflies and important pollinators.