Sustainability at OSU
If you bring this to a campus cafe, you get a 25 cent discount.
What is a reusable cup?
This term measures the total greenhouse gases produced by a person's daily activities, like driving, eating, and using energy.
What is a carbon footprint?
Cutting down large areas of forest reduces the planet's ability to absorb carbon dioxide. This practice is called this.
What is deforestation?
Low-income neighborhoods are more likely to be located near these sites, where the community's trash is buried.
What are landfills?
This program helps students get a degree in Sustainability on top of their existing degree, to provide them with a multidisciplinary education and understanding of sustainability.
What is the Sustainability Double-Degree Program?
These tiny plastic particles, shed from synthetic clothes and some cosmetics, end up in oceans and drinking water.
What are microplastics?
When oceans absorb extra carbon dioxide, this process threatens coral reefs and shellfish.
What is ocean acidification?
This hazy mix of smoke and fog, common in polluted cities, is harder to breathe in near highways and factories.
What is smog?
This program allows students to get paid while working on projects that reduce OSU’s carbon emissions.
What is the Carbon Reduction Grant?
In this type of recycling program, paper, plastic, glass, and metal all go into one bin together instead of being separated by the household.
What is single-stream recycling?
The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo temporarily cooled the planet by sending these tiny particles into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight.
What are aerosols (volcanic ash and sulfur particles)?
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated this city, and low-income neighborhoods were hit hardest.
What is New Orleans?