Leading off this year’s Environmental Film Series at Ohio State is the Aldo Leopold documentary “Green Fire,” on Jan. 24. The Emmy Award-winning film, according to its website, “explores Leopold’s extraordinary career and his enduring influence — tracing how he shaped the modern conservation movement and continues to inspire projects all over the country that connect people and the land.” Watch the trailer above.
Month: January 2017
Film series runs on 6 straight Tuesday evenings
Here’s the lineup for the Environmental Film Series:
• “Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time,” Jan. 24.
• “Before the Flood,” Jan. 31: Actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s climate change documentary.
• “Red Gold,” Feb. 7: Alaska’s Bristol Bay salmon fishery and the open-pit Pebble mine proposed in the bay’s headwaters.
• “A Race Against Time,” Feb. 14: Solar energy development in India and what’s impeding such development in the U.S.
• “Return of the River,” Feb. 21: The environmental and cultural benefits of the largest dam removal project in U.S. history.
• “Uprising,” Feb. 28: America’s dependence on coal plants; China’s impact on the global environment.
Environmental Film Series starts Jan. 24
Ohio State’s 2017 Environmental Film Series kicks off Jan. 24 with a look at legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold, author of the classic A Sand County Almanac.
Called “Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time,” the film starts at 7 p.m. in Room 130 in the university’s Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry (CBEC) building, 151 W. Woodruff Ave. in Columbus.
Admission is free and open to the public. Free pizza and beverages will be served at 6:45 p.m. Advance registration isn’t needed.
Read more on the series here.
Grow your garden with grafting
Grafting can help your garden grow — including by producing new food-producing fruit trees, like the apple shown here, that can better survive cold winters. Learn how to do it in two workshops in CFAES’s Secrest Arboretum.
The benefits (or not) of food-waste awareness
A study by CFAES researchers finds that diners waste far less food when they’re schooled on the harm their leftovers can inflict on the environment. But if they know the food is going to be composted instead of dumped in a landfill, the educational benefit disappears.
Public fruit parks coming to Columbus
Ohio State’s Wexner Center for the Arts, two Los Angeles-based artists, Columbus neighborhood groups and collaborators including CFAES’s outreach arm (OSU Extension) are partnering to design and plant two public “fruit parks” in Columbus’s Weinland Park and South Side areas.
“The fruit each location will yield is intended for the community to share and will be selected with an eye towards the history and preferences of each neighborhood,” said a Wexner Center press release.