OARDC and other programs within CFAES and Ohio State will co-host a free screening of the film “Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life” on Jan. 16 in Wooster. Details here. Afterward, executive producer Stephen Kellert of Yale will lead a discussion including Ohio Amish farmer David Kline and Oberlin College’s David Orr. It’s a distinguished panel to say the least. You can read more about them at the link. “Biophilic design,” the event’s organizers say, “is an innovative way of designing the places where we live, work, and learn.” Come check it out if you’re interested.
sustainable design
Watch: ‘This is the time to get things right’
Here’s David Orr talking (video, 6:19) about the Adam Lewis Center, the green campus movement, and sustainable community design in a 2009 interview done for Bioneers. “The interest by students is huge. … They sense to the bone that this is the time to get things right.” He speaks this Wednesday at Ohio State in Columbus.
A conversation with David Orr
David Orr of Oberlin College speaks April 18 at Ohio State. He’s the author of Earth in Mind, The Nature of Design, and Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse, among others, and led the creation of Oberlin’s groundbreaking solar-powered, zero-discharge Adam Lewis Center for Environmental Studies. The three-part program, called “Beyond Business as Usual: Achieving and Teaching Sustainability,” features a lunchtime conversation, a forum on sustainable design and communities, and Ohio State’s second annual Sustainability Summit, where he’ll be the keynote speaker.
Walk this way? Making our campus sustainable
Ohio State — led by President E. Gordon Gee, the group Students for a Sustainable Campus, Sustainability Coordinator Corey Hawkey, our own School of Environment and Natural Resources, and others — is taking steps (literally) toward being a more sustainable campus.