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Don’t let your pumpkins haunt the landfill. Green your Halloween and return nutrients to the soil by composting them!
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.
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.
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 Wexner Medical Center is committed to being a responsible steward of resources through efficient operations, innovative research and ideas and to “first, do no harm.”
For the eleventh year in a row, The Ohio State University is proud to earn a Tree Campus Higher Education recognition from the Arbor Day Foundation. Ohio State has received the distinction each year since it first applied in 2011. Tree Campus Higher Education, formerly known as Tree Campus USA, launched in 2008 and honors colleges and universities and their leaders for promoting healthy trees and engaging students and staff in the spirit of conservation.
The Kunz-Brundige Franklin County Extension Building located at The Ohio State University has been recognized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), not once but twice.
The AIA awarded Erdy McHenry Architecture, LLC the Merit Award and the Honor+ Sustainability Award. A Merit Award recognizes excellence which deserves recognition while the Honor Award goes to projects that exemplify distinguished achievement in any category – in this case sustainability.
A sustainability leader from Ohio State is weighing in on the climate change phenomenon. The Commonwealth Fund recently invited Aparna Dial, senior director of sustainability and strategic services, to be part of a virtual panel.
The Commonwealth Fund was founded in 1918. The organization’s mission is to promote a high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society’s most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, and people of color.
