CFAES’s Ohio Woodland Stewards Program is holding a four-part seminar series for gardeners, landscapers, homeowners, and others on invasive species, the problems they cause, and how to deal with them. Read the whole story. The stewards program is part of our statewide outreach arm, OSU Extension. (Photo: Invasive insects called hemlock woolly adelgids (the fuzzy white spots) on a hemlock branch by Nicholas A. Tonelli, Pennsylvania, USA, via Wikimedia Commons.)
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Invasive species in your yard, woods, or garden … and what you can do about them
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on May 15th, 2013
‘This is your life’s obligation’
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on May 9th, 2013
Just a great short interview with CFAES student Henry Peller (Sustainable Plant Systems) here (video, 0:49). He was recently named a national Udall Scholar. Read more about him here.
Campus sustainability grants go to CFAES students
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on April 30th, 2013
Three of the four student sustainability grants presented recently by Ohio State’s Office of Student Life have their roots in CFAES. And two of the three got their start in a course in CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources. Read more in the latest issue of CFAES’s Continuum magazine (pdf; pages 4-5) and on the Office of Student Life’s website. Money for the grants came through the Coca-Cola Foundation’s Student Sustainability Grants program.
Brutustainability!
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on April 19th, 2013
Wind energy, Ohio Stadium recycling, Environmental March Madness, and more have powered Ohio State to six top finishes for recent national environmental awards. Read the story. (Photo: Ohio State’s long-term vertically sustainable mascot Brutus Buckeye by University Communications.)
Arbor Day celebration in Wooster Saturday
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on April 19th, 2013
Secrest Arboretum, part of the Wooster campus of CFAES’s research arm, OARDC, is holding a free public Arbor Day celebration tomorrow, April 20. It features the naming of the campus as a Tree Campus USA (Ohio State becomes one of only six U.S. universities to have more than one campus so named; the Columbus campus earned it last year); the planting of oak trees in the arboretum, elsewhere on OARDC’s campus, and on the adjacent campus of the Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute, which is also part of CFAES; a guided tree walk; the dedication of a new garden honoring the late OARDC scientist Ben Stinner; and more. Details here.
Keep it blooming: Earth Day cleanup in Olentangy wetland
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on April 18th, 2013
Celebrate Earth Day Saturday, April 20, in CFAES’s Wilma H. Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park by helping plant nearly 400 donated trees and shrubs, yanking invasive species, and cleaning up the park and the nearby banks of the Olentangy. You’ll get dirty hands, wet feet, a good feeling, and a free lunch. More. (pdf). The Wetland of International Importance is part of our School of Environment and Natural Resources.
Blue jeans, green home insulation
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on April 18th, 2013
Recycle your old jeans, including their Blake Griffin-disapproved truncated versions (video, 0:37), at CFAES’s 2013 Micki Zartman Scarlet and Gray Ag Day tomorrow, April 19. Twelve-year-old Erek Hansen, aka EcoErek, Guinness World Record-setting recycler of jeans (total: some 10,000 pairs and counting), will take them in for eventual conversion into UltraTouch denim home insulation. HGTV lists the recycled material’s benefits.
‘Green Fire’ update 2
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on April 17th, 2013
Last night’s “Green Fire” screening was cancelled due to a suspicious package report in Ohio State’s Ohio Union. Environmental Professionals Network Coordinator David Hanselmann writes:
“I was with the speaker [“Green Fire” guide Curt Meine]. We were walking toward the entrance when the evacuation began. We stood in the rain on the far side of High Street until about 8:10 and decided to pack it in, not knowing when the building would re-open and if anyone would still be around to watch it. Right now there are no plans to show it again, but we will consider that. For now, people can watch a slightly shortened version on WOSU TV Sunday [April 21] at 3 p.m.”
‘Green Fire’ update
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on April 17th, 2013
We’ve gotten some questions about last night’s “Green Fire” screening. The location for the screening, the Ohio Union on Ohio State’s Columbus campus, was evacuated from about 6-7:30 p.m. so police could investigate an unattended backpack that was found to be harmless. What we’re trying to find out is whether the screening was just delayed or was cancelled altogether … and if it was cancelled, whether it will be rescheduled. If you have any details, drop us a line. Otherwise, we’ll let you know as soon as we can.
Ecological restoration, sustainability: Group meets starting today
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on April 12th, 2013
The Midwest-Great Lakes chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration holds its annual meeting today through Sunday (4/12-14) on the Wooster campus of CFAES’s research arm, OARDC. Theme: “Ecological Restoration and Sustainability: Partners for the Future.” Read more about the meeting here and about the chapter here. (The chapter’s mission: “To promote the science and practice of ecological restoration to assist with the recovery and management of degraded ecosystems throughout the Midwestern and Great Lakes region of the United States.”) Among those attending and presenting are a number of scientists and graduate students from CFAES.
