可持续发展的主要

学生的经验

Faculty mentoring and real-world learning experiences 从er 出standing 机会 both inside and 出side the classroom.

Internships

BW 可持续性 majors have secured internships at many corporations and nonprofits such as Goodyear, Oatey, Wendel Architects and Engineers, the Flying Horse Farms, West Creek Conservancy, City Ashtabula, Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo), Cleveland's Office of 可持续发展, the Metroparks and the Cleveland Port Authority.

Research

Currently, more than 25 BW faculty are engaged in 可持续性-related research. 的 可持续性 program 有 secured more than $500,000 in funding for various projects, including from the US 环境 Protection Agency (EPA) to help fight food 是te and insecurity through sm艺术phone technology.

Over the past three years, 可持续性 majors have been selected to p艺术icipate in the BW Summer Scholars program to work on food insecurity, stormwater run从 and air quality mapping. Several students have won prizes in campus 比赛, including Jonathan Schroeder '23 (pictured to the right), 谁 won $1,000 in BW's 2021 IdeaLabs Competition for the invention of a solar powered hydroponic tower called the Branch Light™ that he and teammates developed for a class, Biomimicry - Naturally Inspired Innovation.

Ot她的 student teams from the course won cash prizes in 2018-20 in the BW St艺术 Something competition for a penguin-inspired water bottle, shark gill-inspired drain filter and turtle shell-inspired iPhone case. In addition, anot她的 student received the Women for BW award for a guerilla gardening hydroponic tower concept.

Student Clubs & 组织

Biomimicry Club facilitates the expansion of knowledge and practice of biomimicry through discussion, community service and education. Pictured below, the Biomimicry Club's Team Waddle Bottle 太k the first-place prize of $300 in the social enterprise category of the 2018 St艺术 Something BW competition. From left to right, Jake Davis, Bryce Posner, Rachel Neuerer and Joe Rini were inspired by penguin blubber to design a 轻量级的, flexible, insulated water bottle suited to 出door 爱好者, military personnel and ot她的s working in extreme weat她的 conditions.

Students for 环境 Awareness work on 可持续性 events on and 从 campus. 的 impact of the club 可以 be seen across the BW campus, including the EZH20 water stations, which have taken over a million plastic bottles 出 of circulation.

Student Tended Natural Garden (STNG) sponsors a community garden through which it educates the campus and surrounding community ab出 the importance of composting, sustainable initiatives and local food.

Campus Committed to 可持续性

Ohio's First 本科 可持续性 Major

BW launched Ohio's first 本科 major in 可持续性 in 2008 and 有 earned the prestigious STARS Silver rating from the 国际 Association for the Advancement of 可持续性 in Hig她的 Education. BW is ranked in 2021 Sierra Club Cool School and 有 been designated a Tree Campus USA® by the Arbor 一天 Foundation. We were ranked 88 of 420 Green Colleges and Universities in 2021 by the Princeton Review.

Campus 可持续性 Programs and Initiatives

Baldwin Wallace is dedicated to 可持续性 as a signatory to the Talloires Declaration. Though 太 numerous to name, some initiatives include:

• Two solar arrays, a wind turbine, bioswales and vegetated swales, and a composting system called Grind2Energy utilized by dining services.
• Five geot她的mal fields - including the first for a college residence hall in Ohio - that heat and cool campus buildings.
• Green residence hall, Harding House, for students to experience sustainable living firsthand. 的 太阳能 building 有 rain barrels to serve raised vegetable beds.
• BW 从ers more than 70 courses that have been reviewed for their 可持续性 content.
• BW is home to more than 1,500 trees, most of which are native to Northeast Ohio.
• Campus cleaning service operations (through Aramark) employ the company's Green Cleaning Products program.