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Recycle Right with SWACO

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April is Earth Month, and to help you celebrate Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO) curated an impressive lineup of educational webinars and home recycling tips to help you go green and stay green all year long.

Don’t Waste This Earth Day – Commit to Recycling More! April 22nd at 12:30 p.m.  Webinar.

Take the guess out of recycling and start recycling with confidence! SWACO is here to provide you with answers. Whether it’s about hard-to-recycle items such as appliances or Styrofoam, we’ll help you determine the best method for reusing or recycling. Register!

Recycle Right at Home with these Tips

  • Packaging is Key – Purchase products with minimal or recyclable packaging to reduce the amount of material sent to the landfill.  
  • How Clean Should They Be? Don’t obsess over how clean your recyclables are. The main goal is to make sure they’re empty and give them a quick rinse if needed.
  • Go Paperless – Opt for an e-receipt when at the store and consider digital subscriptions for your favorite magazines.  
  • Size Matters – Items such as bottle and jug caps and metal can tabs are too small to be recycled alone. Either leave them on bottles and cans and recycle them together or discard individual caps and tabs in the trash.  
  • Recycle Solar Eclipse Glasses – Drop off your gently used eclipse glasses at one of these participating locations and help make the future brighter and safer for young stargazers.   

https://recycleright.org/

Webinar Series: Gardening for Conservation

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Are you passionate about preserving our planet’s natural beauty and biodiversity? Curious about how you can make a difference right from your own backyard?

We’re thrilled to announce our Gardening for Conservation webinar series, brought to you by The Nature Conservancy and Ohio State University Extension. Learn how to create wildlife-friendly habitats, manage invasive species and promote sustainable practices right in your own green space while engaging with experts who will share their insights on practical conservation strategies tailored for your local environment.

All events held on the fourth Wednesday of each month from 6:00 to 7:15 pm ET.

Wednesday, April 24th

Homegrown Conservation: Gardening for Bees, Butterflies and Birds

Wednesday, May 22nd

An Update on Ticks for 2024

Wednesday, June 26th

Growing Your Own Food for Conservation

Wednesday, July 24th

Rooting Out Trouble: Managing Invasive Plants in Your Landscape

Wednesday, August 28th

The Good, The Bad and the Hungry: Dealing with Wildlife in the Garden

Wednesday, September 25th

Everyone Loves Free (plant) Food!

Register for CleanMed Webinar Series

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CleanMed is the premier conference on environmental sustainability in the health care sector. In prepapration for their annual conference in Salt Lake City in May, CleanMed is offering FREE webinars on the topic of sustainability in healthcare.

Reducing food waste to feed your community & save money

April 25, 2024; 3 p.m. EST Register Here

Food should feed people, not landfills. Food waste not only contributes to climate change, but is a missed opportunity for addressing food insecurity in our communities.

Learn from Practice Greenhealth partners about the creative and comprehensive approaches they have used to reduce wasted food, and how doing so has saved money, reduced their climate impact, and supported hunger relief in their communities.

The value of clinical leadership & governance structure in advancing sustainability

May 2, 2024; 3 p.m. EST Register Here

Clinical care is a driving factor of health care emissions and pollution. As the largest percentage of a hospital’s workforce, it is critical to engage, educate, and empower clinicians to lead change. Health care organizations gain many benefits from positioning a health professional in a leadership role within their sustainability governance structure.

In this session, hear about Ascension’s Clinical Work Group within their Environmental Impact and Sustainability program, which harnesses organizational decision-making pathways toward decreasing the environmental impact of clinical care.

Learn about the inclusion of health professional leadership within Ascension’s governance structure and processes and programming for clinical sustainability initiatives including desflurane elimination, improving regulated medical waste segregation, and educating clinicians about conserving resources.

Earth Month webinar: Greening the OR

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Join the Green Team ERG on April 5 at noon

In celebration of Earth Day April 22, the Green Team ERG will be hosting a variety events all month, including webinars, plant giveaways, and a cooking demo. Become a member via this link to receive our newsletter with more details.

To start Earth Month, join the Green Team from noon to 1 p.m. April 5 for a webinar with Vidya Raman, MD, MBA, FASA, FAAP, on sustainability in the operating room.

Some topics that will be covered:

– Sustainability as whole

– Health care contribution and perioperative operating room impact

– Anesthesia and surgery carbon footprint

– What we are doing at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center

– Future plans at the Wexner Medical Center

Dr. Raman is a clinical professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. She has held a faculty appointment since 2007 and transitioned her clinical practice from Nationwide Children’s Hospital to the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center in 2022. She’s completed training in pediatrics, anesthesiology and pediatric anesthesia. Her research interests center around perioperative sustainability. She has given many national talks, podcasts and papers on the topic and hopes to make an impact on climate action through her work on perioperative sustainability. She has not only helped with decreasing Ohio State’s operating room carbon footprint, but also cost containment. Her work has saved over $100,000 in in 2023. She looks forward to making more of an impact and moving clinical engagement of sustainability beyond the perioperative spaces into other clinical areas.

Register for the webinar here.

Can’t make the webinar? A recording will be sent out to registrants and posted on this site.

Not part of the Green Team yet? You can join here: go.osu.edu/greenteamsignup

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March 2024 webinar: Planning and Planting the Spring Vegetable Garden

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Do you have a New Year’s resolution to start your own garden or do you just want to hear tips on how to improve your current garden?

Join the Green Team ERG on Tuesday, March 19, from 1-2 p.m. where Tim McDermott, DVM, will give us tips on planning and planting the spring vegetable garden.

Dr. McDermott joined the Ohio State University Extension at Ohio State in 2017 as an agriculture and natural resources educator after 20 years in private practice veterinary medicine and surgery. His area of specialization is local food production systems, and he is passionate about teaching people how to grow their own food.

The webinar will cover the following topics:

  • Getting started in spring gardening
  • What you can plant now
  • Soil testing
  • How to fertilize your spring garden to maximize your harvest

Register for the webinar here.

Dr. McDermott will be available to answer questions at the end of his presentation. Feel free to submit questions ahead of time to Judy Gregory, our new webinar moderator and Green Team education chair, at gregory.177@osu.edu.

Not part of the Green Team yet? You can join at go.osu.edu/greenteamsignup.

— By Judy Gregory

February webinar: How Ohio State is meeting its sustainability goals

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UPDATE: This webinar has been postponed. We’ll update the website with a new date once the presentation is rescheduled.

In this month’s webinar from the Green Team ERG, Andrew Neil, MESM, assistant director for Sustainability with Facilities Operations and Development at The Ohio State University, will review the university’s resource stewardship goals as we approach 2025 and look into the future, identifying bigger goals for 2030 and beyond.

Register for the webinar here.

Andrew has been with Ohio State for over five years, with his work focusing on advancing the university’s sustainability goals on carbon, energy, water, ecosystem services, transportation, water, food and procurement. He earned a master’s degree in environmental science and management from the University of Rhode Island (URI) in 2014, focusing on spatial analysis and remote sensing. Previously, he worked on coastal and marine issues with the URI Environmental Data Center, the U.S. National Park Service and CSA Ocean Sciences.

Andrew will be available to answer questions at the end of his presentation. Feel free to submit questions ahead of time to Judy Gregory, our new webinar moderator and Green Team education chair, at gregory.177@osu.edu.

Not part of the Green Team yet? You can join here: go.osu.edu/greenteamsignup

January Webinar: Air Pollution and Human Health Effects

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Update: This webinar has ended, but a recording is available here.

Join the Green Team Employee Resource Group from noon to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 16, as it hosts an educational webinar on air quality and its effects on human health.

Register for the webinar here.

The webinar features Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission representatives Brandi Whetstone, sustainability officier, and Mauro Diaz-Hernandez, air quality and sustainability coordinator, and Hannah Lovins, a fourth-year PhD candidate in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at The Ohio State University.

Whetstone and Diaz-Hernandez will detail how MORPC is planning and working on air quality issues throughout our region.

Lovins will discuss her research, including…

– the different types of air pollution we encounter

– the health effects associated with short- and long-term exposure

– the respiratory system

– how we study the effects of air pollution

– ozone exposure and particulate matter and their effects on lung immune response

– how dietary interventions can protect us from lung inflammation

Lovins is seeking her PhD in the lab of Kymberly Gowdy, MS, PhD, and her research interests reside in pulmonary immunology, nutrition and lipid metabolism. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2020.

Not part of the Green Team yet? You can join here: go.osu.edu/greenteamsignup

Don’t Miss It! – Register for Aug. 18 Green Team Webinar with OEC

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Ohio Environmental Council will discuss the recent Supreme Court Decision blocking the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases from power plants.

Our next Green Team webinar will be held on Thursday, Aug. 18, at noon, and will feature Nolan Rutschilling and Chris Tavenor of the Ohio Environmental Council who will speak on the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating power plant emissions. They also will review the climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act headed to President Biden’s desk for his decision. This is a timely and hopeful program. Please register for the webinar:

https://osu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DDcamCPwTDCw2QFQEnZcGg

Announcing our 2021 Earth Week Webinar Series!

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Join the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Green Team for five days of Earth Day webinars: Going Solar from a Homeowner’s Perspective; You Don’t Have to Be a Master Gardener to Grow a Sustainable Garden Masterfully; Community and Health Benefits of Gardening; Climate Change: The Fierce Urgency of Now; and Why Trees Matter.

Click here for OSUWMC Green Team’s Earth Week 2021 Lunch and Learn Webinar Series Registration links!