Tagged: Goals - More Sustainability

  • Become Green Buckeye Certified

    Implement best sustainability practices in your campus office or laboratory and become Green Buckeye certified. Complete an online survey to let us know what you are doing to reduce your carbon footprint and minimize waste. Learn about tips to make your space more sustainable and get recognized for your commitment.

    Learn more and submit the online survey.

     

  • Compost Your Pumpkin This Fall!

    <none>|October 17, 2023

    Don’t let your pumpkins haunt the landfill. Green your Halloween and return nutrients to the soil by composting them! 

  • Campus Composting: Spreading Seeds and Sustainable Reads

    From handmade seed paper to a student-designed fold-out magazine, Facilities Operations and Development (FOD) is partnering with a Design Activism course to get the word out about composting around campus. When Associate Professor of Design, Susan Melsop, approached FOD and the Sustainability Institute about working together on the Design Activism for Sustainability project, FOD Zero Waste Manager, Mary Leciejewski, was eager to lend a hand.

  • In the News: Sustainable Design and Construction Initiatives to Help Ohio State Reduce Carbon Footprint

    <none>|November 29, 2022

    The Lantern recently highlighted Ohio State's efforts to help reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent since adopting sustainability goals in 2015. Facilities Operations and Development's Kristin Poldemann and Aparna Dial highlighted various construction projects that support these goals.

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  • Volunteers Help Beautify Jennings Hall Rain Garden

    <none>|October 13, 2022

    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.

  • In the News: Aparna Dial on Protecting People and the Environment

    <none>|April 20, 2021

    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 barriers faced by women in STEM.