Doctoral candidate Joseph Campbell presents “Civil Society and the Collaborative County” Feb. 7 in the School of Environment and Natural Resources’ spring seminar series.
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Feb. 7: ‘Civil Society and Collaborative County’
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on February 5th, 2013
Walk this way? Making our campus sustainable
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on March 6th, 2012
Ohio State — led by President E. Gordon Gee, the group Students for a Sustainable Campus, Sustainability Coordinator Corey Hawkey, our own School of Environment and Natural Resources, and others — is taking steps (literally) toward being a more sustainable campus.
‘A systems approach to sustainability’
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on March 1st, 2012
Joseph Fiksel, head of Ohio State’s Center for Resilience, speaks today at 3:30 p.m., part of the School of Environment and Natural Resources’ winter seminar series. (Free; all are welcome.) Details. He’s co-founder of the consulting firm Eco-Nomics LLC, which specializes in sustainable business practices, and is the author of Design for Environment: A Guide to Sustainable Product Development. He writes on defining “the s-word” here. Check out his bio here (pdf).
Can religion and the environment mix?
Posted by Kurt Knebusch on January 24th, 2012
Cal DeWitt, a leading Christian environmentalist, speaks five times in Wooster and Columbus later this week, sponsored four of those times by parts of our college. He’s a professor with the University of Wisconsin’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, the author of Earth-wise: A Biblical Response to Environmental Issues, and as the elected town chair of Dunn, Wisc., helped develop an innovative, award-winning land use plan. None other than Bill McKibben (The End of Nature) has written, “I have a lot of heroes, but Cal DeWitt is high on the list.”
Student sustainability projects a ‘win-win’ for OSU
Posted by Greg Hitzhusen, School of Environment and Natural Resources on June 6th, 2011
For the past two quarters, my students in ENR 567, "Communicating Environment and Natural Resources Information," have focused their group research projects on sustainability at Ohio State, in connection with OSU's One Framework Plan and the university's sustainability plans.
Projects in this pilot effort have ranged from examining options for renewable energy at OSU and infrastructure and ecosystem services planning, to sociological strategies and educational opportunities to help implement sustainable projects around campus.
Topics have included green roofs, reflective roofing, campus composting, solar power, bus commuting, algae fuels for OSU CABS buses, Olentangy River corridor restoration, avian diversity, permeable pavement, seque... Read More »
