Ecologue

Happy New Year, everyone.  I’ve been getting some questions about what OSU is doing for the National Teach-In event coming up in February.  In an effort to be more efficient and avoid suffering from event overload (as well as speaker and audience competition), Linn Benton Community College and OSU are working cooperatively on two events […]

This winter’s shaping up to be a stormy one, with major storms hitting before our transition to winter (the 21st of this month)  and more likely to come.  Roads are slick and sidewalks perilous; however, we are members of a university that never seems to close, so we must make our way nonetheless. Biking is […]

This holiday break likely will be a time of slight quiet at OSU, as it has in years past.  With summers getting busier and busier, it seems December is the only slowdown anymore.  For the Sustainability Office, January and most of the first half of 2008 will be extremely busy, mainly facilitating a climate action […]

First, thanks to those who participated in the first annual Oregon University System Sustainability Conference last week.  It was a tremendous success, in part due to great attendance.  I’ll try to get a little more about that written soon, including some of my favorite moments and next steps that will occur as a result of […]

Registration closes tonight, Monday night, for day one of the first annual Oregon University System Sustainability Conference this Thursday and Friday, Oct.23 and 24.  There is still a little room on Friday for more participants; Friday is the day focused on student engagement. This event will have a lot for people who care about how […]

After several months of careful consideration (ok, really delays because of other projects), the OSU Sustainability Office, with much-appreciated help from Web Communications, has launched Ecologue, a place for conversation about sustainability at Oregon State University. Coupled with the OSU sustainability web site’s recent growth, it seemed like a good time to take the plunge […]