Past EPN Events

  1. Climate Action: Our Local Response to a Global Challenge

    Jan 15, 2019, 7:15am - 9:30am

    This program featured Jim Schimmer (director, Economic Development and Planning Department for Franklin County), Alana R. Shockey (assistant director, City of Columbus), Jordan Davis (director of Smart Columbus, Columbus Partnership), and William Murdock (executive director, Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission)

  2. O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree - How Sustainable Are Thy Branches?

    Dec 4, 2018, 7:15am - 9:30am

    This program featured Blake Rafeld (landscape architect, co-owner, Sugargrove Tree Farm (Ashland, Ohio) and former president of the National Christmas Tree Association) and Elizabeth Myers Toman, PhD (lecturer, Ohio State)

  3. Let's Make Biking Work!

    Nov 15, 2018, 7:15am - 9:00am

    This program featured Gabby Reissland JD, RN, CHC (board member, Yay Bikes! and member, Columbus Chapter of Black Girls Do Bike and Major Taylors Cycling Club), Kerstin Carr, PhD (director of planning & nnvironment, Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission), and Catherine Girves (executive director, Yay Bikes!)

  4. Healthy Planet, Healthy Patients: Hospitals Reduce Their Environmental Footprint

    Oct 16, 2018, 7:15am - 9:45am

    This program featured James Evans (project manager, Cleveland Clinic), David Phillips (chief executive officer and administrator, Barnesville Hospital), and Aparna Dial (senior sustainability consultant, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center)

  5. The Lake Erie Impairment Designation

    Sep 11, 2018, 7:15am - 9:00am

    This program featured Christopher J. Winslow, PhD (Lake Erie) (director, Ohio Sea Grant), Rich Batiuk (Chesapeake Bay) (retired associate director for Science, Analysis and Implementation with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program Office), Theresa Dirksen (Grand Lake Saint Mary’s) (agriculture solutions coordinator, Mercer County), George Bullerjahn, PhD (Sandusky Bay) (professor of Research Excellence, Bowling Green State University), and Lorraine Winters Krzyzewski (Columbus) (watershed manager, Columbus Division of Water)

  6. EPN Field Trip - Wetlands, River and Restoration: A walking tour of the Lower Olentangy

    Jul 10, 2018, 7:15am - 11:30am

    This program featured Mazeeika Sullivan, PhD (director, Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park and associate professor, Ohio State), Laura Fay (director of Grants, MS Consultants Inc. (Columbus) and chairwoman, Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed Science Committee), Heather Doherty (Central Ohio Scenic River manager, Ohio Department of Natural Resources), Charlie Flower, PhD (research ecologist, Forest Service’s Northern Research Station), and Gary D. Bowen, CCM (director of Field Services, DLZ)

  7. In Good Stewardship...an EPN field trip to Mechanicsburg, Ohio! 

    Jun 12, 2018, 7:00am - 12:00pm

    This program featured In Good Taste Catering, The Hive and Hemisphere Coffee Roasters

  8. May is All About Maple! 

    May 8, 2018, 7:15am - 9:30am

    This program featured Dan Brown (president, Ohio Maple Producers Association), Representative John Patterson (state representative, Ohio House District 99), Sayeed Mehmood, PhD (associate professorof Natural Resources, The Ohio State University), and Kathy Smith (Ohio State Extension forestry program director, Ohio State).

  9. Signature Event: Sustainability through reinvention

    Apr 16, 2018, 7:00pm - 8:45pm

    This program featured Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva (co-founder and chief reinvention officer, We Exist Reinvention Agency), Katie Fornadel (supply planning analyst, Patagonia), Frank O'Brien-Bernini (vice president and chief sustainability officer, Owens Corning), and Sarah Moore (retail project manager and sustainability strategist, Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams)

  10. Flooding - A National, State and Local Issue - We Are All Part of the Solution 

    Mar 6, 2018, 7:15am - 9:30am

    This program featured Chad Berginnis, CFM (executive director, Association of State Floodplain Managers), Cynthia J. Crecelius, CFM (principal, CC Consults), and Shawn Arden, PE, CFM (associate, EMH&T)

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