Clean Air is seeking enthusiastic people to join our Volunteer Speakers Bureau! Speakers Bureau Volunteers will help will help spread the message of the important work of Clean Air and encourage people to get involved. Responsibilities Attend Speakers Bureau Training Represent Clean Air at a variety of community events. Maintain an understanding of the history, […]

Koch Brothers Exposed reveals David and Charles Koch for using their billions to buy our government and increase their wealth, at the expense of everyone else. Director Robert Greenwald believes that our system should not be sold to the highest bidder. Greenwald focuses on several news avenues the Koch brother have begun perusing, like suppressing […]

We are pleased to host Josh Lerner, author of Making Democracy Fun at Talking Leaves Books, Monday, Sept. 8th at 7:30pm Lerner is co-founder and executive director of the Participatory Budgeting Project in NYC. For over a decade, he has developed, researched and worked with dozens of community engagement and participatory budgeting processes in North […]

Are you proud of Clean Air’s recent successes in the Tonawanda Coke campaign and the continued progress on the West Side? Concerned or frustrated with the environmental and health challenges that still threaten our community? Looking for a way to continue your involvement in keeping our community healthy and safe and our organization strong? Does […]

On Wednesday, the Buffalo News published secret tapes that caught Peace Bridge Authority President Sam Hoyt and Department of Transportation officials talking candidly about their Peace Bridge Plans. They called residents and our members “sleeping dogs” who they were “trying not to kick” and bragged about brainwashing Olmsted Parks into supporting the plan. Well, we know that we are […]

Back in May we submitted a proposal to present at the 3rd International Conference on Participatory Budgeting in North America: Real Money, Real Power and it was accepted! Clean Air has been working hard over the past couple of years to implement a more democratic and participatory budgeting process in the City of Buffalo and […]

July 22, 2014 Common Council to Explore Participatory Budgeting in Buffalo New group will develop recommendations for implementing process in the Queen City   BUFFALO, NY – The Common Council voted unanimously today to establish a working group to learn more about Participatory Budgeting and develop recommendations for implementing the process in Buffalo. Participatory Budgeting […]

  Over the years, Clean Air’s work has grown larger and deeper. As we’ve expanded to new neighborhoods and new fights, our staff and team of volunteers has also grown. So our board has found us a beautiful, new office where we can hold community meetings, phone bank, and our staff has the space to […]

Want a way to stay involved with Clean Air over the summer? Want to learn more about Climate Change? Do you just like watching movies? If you answered yes to any of these questions Clean Air has something for you! This August, Clean Air is hosting a Combating Climate Change Film Series. We will be […]

Our members on the west side have been working hard to find solutions to the asthma epidemic. One idea we’re learning more about is using green buffers to protect the community from diesel exhaust, noise, light and vibrations from trucks. This Tuesday we’re hosting Brent Bucknum from Urban Biofilter who will lead a workshop on how they’ve used […]