By Kenneth Macdonald
Buffalo, NY – As part of it's Greener Shade of Blue campaign, UB invited a prominent leader of the environmental movement to campus Tuesday to talk about alternative energy and global warming.
Denis Hayes was the coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970. He is now the president of the Earth Day Network. Hayes says he's struck by how things have changed over the past 37 years.
"At the time we had the first Earth Day, it was basically an alliance between environmentalists and government to try and regulate industry," Hayes said. "We now find ourselves in this peculiar position where the executive branch of the government is on the wrong side of the issue."
Hayes says global warming is the biggest threat to the environment. He says the only way to reduce the threat is through changes in behavior and public policy.