Re-Tree
Western New York held its Sixth Annual Buffalo Enviro-Fair at Niagara Square on
Friday April 20, in celebration of Earth Day.
According
to Paul Maurer, chairman of the event, the fair consisted of a series of
not-for-profit booths that supplied information about a variety of
environmental concerns including soil conservation, the Great Lakes, free tree
samplings and alternative energy options.
"It's
something that is good to have for Buffalo so that people know exactly the ways
that they can be more energy conscious and sustain our earth, so it's good when
we can do that every year,” Maurer said.
Maurer
said the 80-degree day encouraged a high turnout.
“We
were giving out a lot of tree seed, more than I've ever given out, so I
couldn't even take a breather, it was busy," Maurer said.
"This
was our sixth annual, so we hope to keep doing it every year as long as I can
still get some great generous companies like the ones that did it this year to
come back again every year," Maurer said.
The
event was inspired in 2007 when Al Gore came to the Univeristy at Buffalo to
give a speech about global warming.
According
to its website, Re-Tree has a goal of planting 30,000 trees by May. By the time
of Enviro-Fair , Re-Tree had surpassed the 23,000 mark. By Anna Dinger and
Kevin Freiheit
