College hosts Hudson Valley Farm to Institution Summit
Yesterday, more than 125 local practitioners working to bring regionally-produced food to schools, colleges, hospitals, food pantries and other venues, and educate their eaters
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Sustainability
SUNY New Paltz releases Sustainability Plan; opens Office of Campus Sustainability
NEW PALTZ – President Donald Christian of the State University of New York at New Paltz has officially submitted the Campus Sustainability Plan to the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). To support the plan, the College has hired a full-time sustainability coordinator and a part-time energy coordinator who…
Read MoreNew Paltz selected for The Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges
NEW PALTZ – The Princeton Review has selected the State University of New York at New Paltz for inclusion in its 2013 Guide to 322 Green Colleges. The guide, produced in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council, profiles 320 institutions of higher education in the United States and two…
Read More“Mid-Hudson Agriculture: Growing our Economy and our Communities” conference to be held at SUNY New Paltz
NEW PALTZ – Julie Suarez, Director of Policy at the New York State Farm Bureau, will deliver the luncheon keynote address at the “Mid-Hudson Agriculture: Growing our Economy and our Communities” conference to be held on March 1, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Student Union on the State…
Read MoreSUNY’s New Solar Array Powers Electric Vehicles
NEW PALTZ – SUNY New Paltz’s latest renewable energy project came on line this month with the installation of a 5kilowatt solar array that are now being used to power a garage and to recharge the batteries of the fleet of electric vehicles that were acquired in an earlier environmental initiative….
Read MoreRenovated Crispell Hall at New Paltz awarded LEED Gold Certification
NEW PALTZ – Crispell Hall, a student residence building at the State University of New York at New Paltz, was recently awarded LEED Gold Certification for New Construction and Major Renovations, making it the first-ever LEED Gold building on the campus. The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating…
Read MoreSUNY New Paltz’ Center for Research, Regional Education, and Outreach part of sustainability consortium awarded a $800,000 NYSERDA Cleaner, Greener Communities Program grant
NEW PALTZ – The Center for Research, Regional Education, and Outreach (CRREO) at the State University of New York at New Paltz is one of 10 members of the Mid-Hudson Sustainability Planning Consortium, a group that recently received an $800,000 grant from the <a href="http://www.nyserda.ny.gov/Cleaner-Greener">New York State Energy Research and…
Read MoreSUNY New Paltz to host first Environmental Awareness and Sustainability Day on May 5
NEW PALTZ – The State University of New York at New Paltz will hold its first Environmental Awareness and Sustainability Day on May 5 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the campus. The purpose of the event is to celebrate the Earth and how we can alter our lifestyles to…
Read MoreSUNY New Paltz selected for The Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges
NEW PALTZ – The Princeton Review has selected the State University of New York at New Paltz for inclusion in its 2012 Guide to 322 Green Colleges. The guide, produced in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council, profiles 320 institutions of higher education in the United States and two…
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Living, Learning, Working Green
The State University of New York at New Paltz has been selected for inclusion in The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2012 Edition. New Paltz was also featured in the previous two editions of the guide, which was first published in 2010. New Paltz’s strong commitment to environmental sustainability and…
Read More"Zeroing in on New Paltz: How our community can be a national model for sustainable resource management" at SUNY New Paltz, March 29
NEW PALTZ – The State University of New York at New Paltz’s Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach (CRREO), in collaboration with the League of Women Voters of the Mid-Hudson Region, the Town and Village governments of New Paltz, the SUNY NP Environmental Task Force, the New Paltz…
Read MoreThe Princeton Review includes New Paltz in its most recent Guide to Green Colleges
NEW PALTZ – Princeton Review’s Guide to 311 Green Colleges (2011 edition) features the State University of New York at New Paltz as one of the nation’s significant colleges committed to sustainability and green issues. Inspiration for this guide originated with prospective college students across the country who expressed interest…
Read MoreHigh praise by Forbes for SUNY New Paltz’s solar car: the Sunhawk.
New Paltz’s electrical and computer engineering students showcased their ingenuity, vision and sense of adventure last year when the solar car team finished eighth out of 17 in the [link=http://americansolarchallenge.org/events/asc2010/category/media/]American Solar Challenge’s[/link] road race of 1,200 miles. They raced from the grassy plains of Cresson, Texas to the lofty skyscrapers…
Read MoreRecycleMania spreads across campus
The spirit of recycling returns to the SUNY New Paltz campus as the 2011 RecycleMania Tournament begins. The New Paltz campus will be participating in the friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities on their campus communities. The program, which runs from Feb….
Read MoreNew Paltz welcomes the arrival of geese herding border collie
Augie, a 2 & ½ year-old male border collie, has recently arrived at New Paltz. Augie’s purpose is to herd the migrating Canadian Geese away and off of the campus grounds with help from new owner Mike Malloy, Director of Environmental Health & Safety. The benefit is that the campus will no…
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