News Release:
September 27, 2005
            
Media Contact:
Mike Andrei
Director-College Relations
(716) 839-8472

Cheryl Bird
Executive Director
Center for Sustainable Communities
and Civic Engagement
Daemen College
4380 Main Street
Amherst, NY 14226
sustainc@daemen.edu
            
            


Daemen College Center for Sustainable Communities and Civic Engagement to Host Environmental Summit October 1, 2005
Daemen College is hosting a summit Saturday that is set to bring together more than a dozen key Western New York environmental groups.

Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, and Joseph A. Gardella Jr., a University at Buffalo chemistry professor, are among the guest speakers scheduled to appear at the summit. The event will run from 9 a.m. to noon in the Wick Center on the Daemen campus, 4380 Main St., Snyder.

The summit will feature sessions on a range of issues, including energy conservation, recycling and managing water resources. It is sponsored by Daemen's Center for Sustainable Communities and Civic Engagement.

Participating organizations include the Preservation Coalition of Erie County, the Wind Action Group, Western New York Energy $mart Communities and Friends of the Buffalo/Niagara River.

For information, e-mail sustainc@daemen.edu or visit www.daemen.edu/sites/CSCCE .