The next Environmental Professionals Network (EPN) breakfast program looks at two community efforts—one to save the Columbus Crew soccer team; one to raise money for the Guernsey County Foundation—and asks: What were their keys to success? Continue reading Better together: 2 success stories
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Surprising findings on rural Ohio job growth
CFAES economist Mark Partridge says that since 2010, job growth in Ohio’s rural areas has been strong—nearly the same as in the state’s major cities. “As long as this economic expansion continues,” Partridge says, “rural Ohio is going to fare pretty well compared to the rest of the U.S.” Read the story.
How to start a sustainable business
CFAES sustainability alumnus Vincent Valentino, pictured, is one of nearly 20 speakers set to share insights at the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s 2019 Sustainability Conference on April 17 in Columbus.
How to boost bicycle commuting
“Let’s make biking work!” It’s a worthwhile goal for traffic, environmental and health reasons, and it’s the title of the Thursday, Nov. 15, breakfast program by the Environmental Professionals Network (EPN).
Registration open for Stinner Summit
Registration is open for this year’s Stinner Summit, set for Friday, Oct. 12, in Delaware, north of Columbus. Hosted by CFAES’s Agroecosystems Management Program (AMP), the annual event brings together people interested in sustainable agriculture and sustainable communities; working together, they brainstorm, develop and decide projects to be funded by AMP’s Ben Stinner Endowment for Healthy Agroecosystems and Sustainable Communities.
Registration is free and open to the public. Lunch is included.
Go west for sustainability fest
Five CFAES and CFAES-affiliated programs will be among the more than two dozen exhibitors at WestFest 2018, a sustainability festival on May 19 on Ohio State’s Columbus campus, specifically its West Campus Quad. Continue reading Go west for sustainability fest
Resilient communities in a changing climate?
Aaron Wilson
, atmospheric scientist with CFAES’s OSU Extension outreach arm and Ohio State’s Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, and Jiyoung Lee, associate professor with CFAES’s Department of Food Science and Technology and Ohio State’s College of Public Health, will be among the dozen-plus speakers at Building Resilient Communities in a Changing Climate, a daylong educational forum on May 18 on Ohio State’s Columbus campus. Admission is free and open to the public, includes lunch, but you have to register by May 14.
Get details and a link to register. (Photo: iStock.)
Dec. 5 event: ‘Acting on shared interests’
“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided,” wrote J.K. Rowling in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Next week, the Environmental Professionals Network (EPN) will explore a similar theme. With food. Discussion. But probably no flaming stemware.
Registration open for Sept. 29 Stinner Summit
What are the multifunctional benefits of agriculture? What new project could help grow them?
Explore the questions, and give your concrete, specific ideas for such a project (which will be backed by up to $10,000 in funding), at the 11th annual Stinner Summit on Sept. 29 in Findlay.
Continue reading Registration open for Sept. 29 Stinner Summit
Intelligent transportation? See what’s ahead
Columbus’s technology-intense Smart Columbus project, which last year won the U.S. Department of Transportation’s national Smart City Challenge, is the focus of the next Environmental Professionals Network Breakfast Club program. It’s April 18 at Ohio State.