CFAES’ Sustainability and Environmental Career Expo runs from 2–5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11, in the Ohio Union on the Ohio State Columbus campus. It’s for Ohio State students and alumni.
Month: February 2020
Celebrate winter’s ‘subtle beauty’
Staff members from Secrest Arboretum and Ohio State ATI’s Horticultural Technologies Division, both part of the CFAES Wooster campus, have teamed up to build and host a display garden at the Great Big Home + Garden Show in Cleveland, which continues through Sunday, Feb. 9. Attendance at the show is expected to top 100,000 people.
Try to bag those bags, eh?
Good advice in the tweet below from our friends with Ohio Sea Grant. Based on personal experience, it’s an easy habit to start—takes just a week or so of remembering to do it to become just a thing that you normally do.
We're joining @CFAES_OSU in #CFAES150ActionsToSustainLife! Today: bring a reusable bag to the grocery store! 1 reusable bag can replace more than 700 plastic bags, and it prevents plastic waste from landing in #LakeErie and other waterways. pic.twitter.com/2spEEp2UKr
— Ohio Sea Grant (@ohioseagrant) February 6, 2020
Is another soggy spring in store?
CFAES climate specialist Aaron Wilson, quoted in a recent CFAES news release: “Given the trends we’re seeing, the probability of overall wetter conditions this spring is great, so we need to be prepared.”
CFAES testimony at House hearing: How new technology can benefit rural America
New technology holds promise for America’s small farms and rural businesses, but public-sector involvement—such as for expanding rural broadband access—is needed for that promise to be realized. So said Doug Jackson-Smith, professor of water security and rural sociology with CFAES, in comments delivered Jan. 9 in Washington, D.C., to the U.S. House Committee on Small Business’ Subcommittee on Innovation and Workforce Development.
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Restoring a river, restoring hope
Jason Atkinson, producer of 2014’s A River Between Us, about the conflict and coming together of the Klamath River restoration project in Oregon and Washington, the largest river restoration project in American history, appears in person at a screening of the film from 7–8:50 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, at the Ohio State Columbus campus. A discussion follows the screening, which is being presented as part of Ohio State’s fifth Environmental Film Series. Admission is free and open to the public, with free pizza and beverages at 6:30 p.m. Learn more.
Hemp growing? Don’t dive into it willy-nilly
Interested in growing hemp Ohio? First, carefully weigh the risks and compare them to the possible profits, said Peggy Hall, CFAES agricultural and resource law field specialist, speaking at CFAES’ Growing Hemp in Ohio workshop on Jan. 24 in Wooster. Tread slowly, she suggested.