The focus of the next breakfast program by CFAES’ Environmental Professionals Network, set to be offered both in person and virtually on Jan. 18, is sustainable investing.
sustainable development
The limits to growth?
The next monthly breakfast program by the Environmental Professionals Network is “The Limits to Growth, Revisited,” set for 7:15–9:30 a.m Tuesday, Nov. 16. Speaking will be Gaya Herrington, director of sustainability services, KPMG; and Sandy Doyle-Ahern, president, EMH&T. Josh Knights of Ohio State’s Sustainability Institute will be the moderator.
You can attend in person or virtually.
Student club watching, protecting campus birds
“A club at The Ohio State University is working to tackle the problem of birds colliding head-on with building windows.” So begins our latest CFAES Story, which features CFAES’ Ornithology Club and was written by Yianni Sarris. Sarris is an Ohio State political science major and a student writer with CFAES’ Marketing and Communications unit.
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March 26: ‘Spaceship in the Desert’; or, how oil-rich Abu Dhabi built the world’s first ‘zero-carbon’ city
Gökçe Günel of the University of Arizona presents “Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi” at 4 p.m. March 26 in Room 1080, Derby Hall, on Ohio State’s Columbus campus. Admission is free and open to the public. Ohio State’s Cultures of the Anthropecene working group, part of the Humanities Institute, is the event’s host.
‘They asked us to think of a different way of doing this’
CFAES is selling its long-standing Columbus sheep farm, located in a now heavily residential area about 7 miles north of Ohio State’s main campus, and the redevelopment guidelines, including keeping park space, open space and adjacent neighborhoods in mind, “are a first” for Ohio State, said a Nov. 6 story in Columbus’s This Week Community News.
Sale proceeds, the story said, will help pay for re-envisioning projects planned at CFAES’s Waterman Agricultural and Natural Resources Laboratory near the campus.
Hoo’s there?
A pocket of Columbus has its own smaller pockets, and they’re rich with plants and wildlife.
The next Environmental Professionals Network breakfast program will explore these biodiversity oases and how residents are working to protect them.
“Valuing Landscapes: The Ravines of Clintonville” is from 7:15 to 9:15 a.m. June 8 in the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center, 2201 Fred Taylor Drive, at Ohio State in Columbus. Admission is open to both EPN members and the public. Continue reading Hoo’s there?
Today at 10 a.m.: Town hall at Ohio State with U.S. Ag Secretary Vilsack
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack holds a town hall discussion on rural opportunity from 10-11:15 a.m. this morning on Ohio State’s campus in Columbus. Admission is by invitation only and is open to the media, the event flier says.
Nov. 17: How make Greater Columbus more walkable, livable
A Nov. 17 event at Ohio State will look at making the Columbus area more livable and walkable down the road. Hosted by the Environmental Professionals Network, the program will feature a new central Ohio planning effort called insight2050. Continue reading Nov. 17: How make Greater Columbus more walkable, livable
Sept. 28: Brundtland to speak on global sustainability
On Monday, Sept. 28, the Discovery Themes Provost’s Lecturer Program at Ohio State will present Gro Harlem Brundtland, an internationally known thought leader and advocate for human rights and a leading voice on climate change, sustainable development and global health issues. She will deliver “Our Common Future: Global Sustainability in the 21st Century” at 3:30 p.m. in Mershon Auditorium, 1871 N. High St. in Columbus. The lecture is open to the public. Continue reading Sept. 28: Brundtland to speak on global sustainability
‘Giving a better life to the next generation’
Here’s a video related to Joe Gies’s Aug. 11 talk at Ohio State. It’s about Shelby, Ohio, creating a new downtown park — a public commons and green space — as part of its efforts to mitigate future flood damage.