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  • In the News: Cleaning up the ’Shoe

    It’s dirty, stinky, often disgusting work. But everyone doing it knows how vital it is.  “It’s walking and walking, feet hurtin’, perseverin’, digging into bags of half-eaten food, the worst stuff in the world, but it’s essential we do it,” says Maya Hammond, a Zero Waste intern who spends her home football games sorting the waste at Ohio Stadium.  Being on the team means spending 10 hours at Ohi...
    Zero waste volunteer chats with man and woman near recylcing bins inside stadium
  • ArboBlitz 2022 brings new trees to campus

    The 2022 ArboBlitz was quite the poplar event on Oct. 28, as nearly 60 volunteers teamed up with FOD Landscaping Services and the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Chadwick Arboretum & Learning Gardens to plant dozens of trees outside of The Ohio Union in just three hours. To prepare for the big day, FOD’s certified arborist team determines locations for planting, prep...
    Volunteers gather around staff as they plant a tree.
  • Volunteers Help Beautify Jennings Hall Rain Garden

    On Saturday, October 8, student volunteers joined Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) staff to clean and maintain the Jennings Hall rain gardens. Volunteers, including the Texnikoi Engineering Honorary and the Ecological Engineering Society, weeded, trimmed perennials and mulched 22 garden boxes during the annual fall event, which has taken place since 2013. The rain gardens were among the firs...
    Students participating in the Jennings Rain Garden Clean-Up.
  • Cutting-Edge Lawn Care

    Summer is a busy time of year for Mike Koeritzer of Facilities Operations and Development (FOD). The FOD landscape superintendent says he and his team are beautifying Ohio State’s campus as students return to school this fall.“We are cleaning up landscape beds, mulching, mowing, edging sidewalks to get the campus looking good,” Koeritzer said.To aid in the effort, and to address sustainability, K...
    An electric mower with a landscaper in the background cleaning up grass.
  • In the News: Aparna Dial on Protecting People and the Environment

    Aparna Dial approaches sustainability with a view through three lenses: She immigrated to the United States from India. She’s a woman in a male-dominated field. And she’s been an eyewitness to the ways environmental impacts do not affect everyone equally.That perspective leads her to propel discussion and action when it comes to issues such as the inequities of environmental impacts and the barri...
    Aparna Dial

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