Green Buckeye

Central Ohio is the home of The Ohio State University, which provides us with lots of opportunities to benefit from research and higher learning. The Center for Resilience at OSU is one such hotbed of research that supports "resilience of industrial systems and the environments in which they operate" - in other words, industrial and environmental sustainability.

If your organization is looking for ways to improve supply chain resilience or to explore a by-product synergy network, you owe it to yourself to check out the work going on at the Center for Resilience.

The Winter 2008 issue (.pdf) of the Center's newsletter lists several other sustainability-based research efforts ongoing at OSU, and provides a brief explanation of by-product synergy (i.e., Bill McDonough's waste = food).

I heard Joseph Fiksel (.pdf), the executive director of the center, speak at a meeting of the Capital City Organization Development Network (CCODN) last year. He's very knowledgeable and dedicated to taking a systems approach to environmental sustainability.

Center for Resilience, Joseph Fiksel

Labels: research, resources, sustainability