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The Common Experience Project on Sustainability unites Ohio University and the region through sustainability education with free screenings on Wednesdays from 7-9 p.m. at the Athena Cinema, 20 S. Court St. in Athens. Upcoming Screenings March 15—The Hand That Feeds Explores the sustainability of the restaurant food industry, battle for […]

The Wealth and Poverty theme holds its annual field trip to Appalachian communities on Saturday, March 25, from  9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (estimate). The meeting place is the GoBus stop outside the first floor entrance of Baker Center. Participants should arrive 8:50 a.m. Leaders are Dr. Barry Tadlock, Associate Professor of Political […]

As part of 2016-17: The Year of Energy, the Sustainability Studies theme is hosting Paul Fenn, Founder & President of Local Power Inc., in a public lecture titled “America’s Community Power Revolution” on Thursday, March 23, from 4:30-6 p.m. in Baker Center Theater. An innovative leader in renewable energy, Fenn […]

The Food for Thought Speaker Series presents Dr. Vandana Shiva to present on “Growing Local Food Resilience: A Response to the Global Industrial Food System” on March 27, 7 p.m. in Baker Theater. Shiva will discuss how rediscovering and promoting native and local food sources can provide resiliency to counter the global […]

The Common Experience Project on Sustainability unites Ohio University and the region through sustainability education with free screenings on Wednesdays from 7-9 p.m. at the Athena Cinema, 20 S. Court St. in Athens. Upcoming Screenings March 29—Landfill Harmonic The film explores the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a Paraguayan group that […]

The Wealth & Poverty theme at Ohio University announces its schedule of activities for Spring 2017. Wealth and Poverty Week: Rural America Friday, Feb. 3 – Dr. Cynthia Anderson (Sociology and Anthropology) “Appalachia’s New Rural Economy: Industry, Employment, and Economic Well-Being,” 1-2 p.m. at Alden 319 Monday, Feb. 6 – […]

Ohio University, the newest member of the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty, awarded the first consortium summer internships to OHIO students. Angela Green (Social Work), Kees VandeStadt (Geography), and Chloe Wooster (Social Work) will join the SHECP internship program this summer. Green says she is very much looking forward to […]