Stories tagged with: Sustainability

Homecoming Parade - earth

Sustainability Awards nominations due March 11

The OHIO Office of Sustainability is accepting nominations for the 2020 Sustainability Awards. The awards recognize outstanding contributions to sustainability. They are due March 11.

Schoonover Center green roof area

Green Roof coming to Schoonover Center this spring

Ohio University faculty and students are developing a green roof to be installed this spring on the roof over the Schoonover Center lobby.

Faculty and student researchers in the Russ College’s Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment are developing composite decking boards from coal

From Idea to Shelf

OHIO’s Technology Transfer Office shepherds inventions to market

 Rufus with Campus Recycling Team Member, Carly Cunningham and a student Rufus Green Team Volunteer gathering and preparing to sort recyclables inside Peden stadium.

Bobcats reclaim national recycling championship

The university is proud to continue our nationally recognized ways and bring the trophy back to the Bobcat Nation.

art installation on OHIO's campus by Maya Lin

Illuminating Memories

Ohio University transforms Maya Lin art installation, Input, with lighting and native trees.

John Sabraw painting on a canvas by a pond

Stewards of the Landscape

OHIO’s faculty and students are lending a nurturing hand to planet Earth by taking toxins from water to make artist-grade paint pigments and leveraging life-sized replicas of oil and gas pipeline with software models to prevent spills.

Greening by example

Leadership takes many forms, but the most important is when it prepares for the future. In 2012, OHIO adopted a Climate Action Plan (CAP), setting the goal of attaining carbon neutrality on the Athens Campus by 2075. To get there, OHIO’s Office of Sustainability integrated best practices to reach the goal. Phase One of the plan ends this fall, and most of the benchmarks already have been met.

The living roof on The Patton College’s McCracken Hall came alive earlier this spring, once the late spring snow storms passed through and the days grew longer. Photo by Ben Wirtz Siegel, BSVC ’02

LEEDing the way

When renovations to Ellis Hall are completed this year, the landmark’s iconic features will remain intact: the brick façade, the east portico, the giant, shady sycamore trees. But when students and faculty re-enter the grounds, close inspection will reveal new technology that complements the building’s venerable vibe, including LED lighting, low-flow toilets and sinks, and drought-tolerant trees and shrubs.

4 colored circles containing silhouettes of a candle, pencil, letter i, and a screw

Innovation redux

Ohio Today introduced The Big Idea in summer 2009, profiling innovators—experimenters, creators, educators, and inventors—whose ideas took root or took off at Ohio University. Innovation, by definition, means change, so we decided to check in with Bobcats profiled in the issue for an update.

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