Ohio State Energy Partners has announced the Smart Campus Challenge, which encourages students to pitch and sell ideas to improve sustainability at Ohio State. Students with thoughts on how to fix campus sustainability problems are encouraged to submit project proposals to OSEP — which is ...

Undergraduate Student Government has paired up with Ohio State fraternities to make football Saturdays more sustainable by providing recycling bins for aluminum cans at their block parties, events held by many fraternities before each home football game. Will Baumgart, USG deputy director of sustainability, said ...

The introduction of energy-efficient SportsArt equipment to Jesse Owens South and the RPAC has brought a new meaning to burning off fuel at the gym. The new state of the art equipment cost roughly $25,000 and features treadmills, ellipticals and stationary bikes which allow users ...

In high school, Michael Milam would use the Cleveland Public Library’s laser cutter, a part of its public “workers space,” to create wooden cutouts for fun. After hanging one in his car next to his paper tree air freshener, an idea struck him. Milam, now ...

Serdar Tufekci’s first Ohio State office was in the windowless basement of the Baker Systems Engineering building, back when he was a graduate student in 1994. But 24 years later, he sits in an office in the same building with windows on the fourth floor ...

Ep. 6: Updates on Ohio State Energy Partners On this week’s episode, we sat down with Serdar Tufekci, CEO of Ohio State Energy Partners, to take a deeper look at what the university’s newest public-private partnership has planned in terms of campus sustainability. The partnership ...

From art galleries to dinner and discussions, Time for Change is hosting events all week long to challenge others about environmental awareness. Time for Change Week (T4C) is a collaboration between student organizations and administrators hoping to spread environmental awareness on campus. Running from April ...

For the second year in a row, Time For Change Week — a collaborative effort on sustainability between student organizations, Undergraduate Student Government, Sustainability Council and other Ohio State departments — will kick-off Earth Month. With an extra emphasis on accessibility and environmental justice, student ...

Episode 4: Sustainability Round-up With spring break around the corner, the Between the Green team is bringing you a special podcast episode featuring a round-up of sustainability research, news and events this month. Join us for a quick discussion on World Water Day, the NCAA ...