January | 2017 | CFAES On Sustainability

A ‘moral responsibility to the natural world’

January 23 2017

AL writing at Shack Learn about conservationist Aldo Leopold and his modern legacy in “Green Fire,” which screens at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24, in Ohio State’s 2017 Environmental Film Series.

Published in 1949, Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac has “become one of the most respected books about the environment ever published,” a website by the Aldo Leopold Foundation says. Leopold in turn has “come to be regarded by many as the most influential conservation thinker of the 20th century.”

He’s shown at his farm in Wisconsin, where he developed his revolutionary land ethic — described as a “call for moral responsibility to the natural world.”

Details, series schedule. (Photo used with permission of the Aldo Leopold Foundation.)

Feb. 14: Go into the woods in Ohio, the library

January 19 2017

Image of Ohio State Thompson Library February’s Environmental Professionals Network breakfast program will explore Ohio’s forests — and the natural role one of them played in renovating Ohio State’s main library. Continue reading →

The grapes who stayed out in the cold

January 18 2017

Keeping grape growing and winemaking sustainable in America’s cold-climate states is a featured topic at the 2017 Ohio Grape and Wine Conference, Feb. 20-21 in Dublin near Columbus. Register by Jan. 27 and save $15.

Climate change consequences, solutions

January 17 2017

Ris Twigg reported on Jan. 11’s Environmental Professionals Network breakfast program, which looked at climate change, energy conservation and renewable energy, in Ohio State’s student newspaper, The Lantern.

The network is a public service of CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources.

Bushel of Buckeyes at OEFFA conference

January 13 2017

Ten experts from Ohio State, mostly from CFAES, will be among the 100-plus presenters at the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association’s Feb. 9-11 annual conference.

This

January 12 2017

“These kids have gone through a lot in life. They aren’t just defiant teens who simply decided to strike out on their own. They are a very vulnerable population.”

Good pick for growers of specialty crops

January 11 2017

Here’s more on CFAES’s Feb. 7 Southwestern Ohio Specialty Crops Conference.

Watch: ‘Experience you really can’t get in the classroom’

January 10 2017

Ohio State’s Stone Lab on western Lake Erie, CFAES student Adam Cupito says in the video above, is a “great place to see evolution in action.” It holds college-credit summer courses in the biological and environmental sciences. All of them emphasize hands-on, feet-wet, in-depth study in the field — especially in the lake and on its islands. Check out the list of courses.

New year: Resolve to help monarchs

January 9 2017

Monarch Kathy Burkholder, horticulturist in CFAES’s Chadwick Arboretum and Learning Gardens, tells the Columbus Dispatch that her New Year’s resolution is to increase food and habitat for wildlife, especially the monarch butterfly. (Photo: iStock.)

Dive into your specialty (crops) on Feb. 7

January 6 2017

CFAES’s 2017 Southwestern Specialty Crop Conference, which offers some two dozen classes under five main tracks (fruit production; vegetable production; specialty cropping systems; pesticide safety and farm management; marketing, harvest management and food safety) is Feb. 7 in Loveland near Cincinnati.

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Month: January 2017