OSU Environmental Professionals Network

Phone (440) 708-4895
Email epn@osu.edu
Website https://epn.osu.edu/home

Events from this organizer

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  • Environmental Professionals Network: Inaugural Ohio Soil Health Week Breakfast

    Ohio Soil Health Week
    Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center 2201 Fred Taylor Drive, Columbus, United States

    This Environmental Professionals Network (EPN) Program brings together myriad soil science and health professionals and experts to celebrate the first annual Ohio Soil Health Week. The event includes a morning breakfast with planned talks from soil health researchers, farm managers from across Ohio, and representatives from OEFFA. Mainly, the speakers will present on the theme of soil health in diverse landscapes in Ohio, including on production agriculture fields, gardens, livestock grazing paddocks, prairies and grasslands, and lawns and landscaped areas. The speakers will discuss how healthy soils hold more water, reduce run-off, and protect water quality. They’ll describe how healthy soil practices build soil fertility reducing the need for fertilizer and providing a positive return on investment for farmers. Additionally, the event will educate attendants both in-person and online (through a YouTube livestream) about how healthy soil practices can sequester carbon to mitigate harmful greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change and build on-farm resilience. All participants, regardless of in-person or virtual attendance, must register online. The cost of attendance for non-students is $25, $5 for students, and free for all virtual livestream participants. The price of in-person registration includes a coffee bar and a breakfast buffet.

    $25

  • Film Screening: How to Poison a Planet, featuring a Q&A with Rob Bilott

    Ohio Union US Bank Conference Theater 1739 N High St, Columbus, United States

    Join The Ohio State University's Environmental Professionals Network for a free film screening of How to Poison a Planet, a new documentary about PFAS contamination across the water's world systems, including here in the U.S. The event will feature a Q&A with the environmental attorney who was the inspiration behind the film Dark Waters, Rob Bilott. The film screening is free, but registration is required. Agenda: 5:00 p.m. Doors open at U.S. Bank Conference Theater at the Ohio Union. Snacks and refreshments are served. 6:15 p.m. Welcome remarks provided by Dean Kathy Seward Northern, JD, Associate Dean for Outreach, Engagement and Professional Identity & Jones Day/Robert M. Duncan Designated Associate Professor of Law, The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law. 6:20 p.m. Screening of Revealed: How to Poison a Planet (1hr 35min showtime; IMDb link). 7:55 p.m. David Hanselmann, Member, Ohio Soil and Water Conservation Commission, and original Founder and Coordinator of the Environmental Professionals Network (EPN) at Ohio State, provides brief reactionary remarks to the film and introduces the panel. 8:00 p.m.?Fireside discussion, featuring documentary cast member and inspirational environmental attorney Rob Bilott, JD, Taft Law Firm; Author, Exposure and Juliana Huizenga, PhD, senior environmental engineer at Cyclopure. Conversation moderated by Callia Téllez, 2L Student, Ohio State, Moritz College of Law. 8:35 p.m.?Audience Q&A with Bilott, Huizenga, and Téllez. 9:00 p.m. Event concludes.