Sustainability major

• Examines our human relationship to the earth and focuses on current and future needs in ways that address our social, environmental and economic well being
• First bachelor’s degree in sustainability offered in Ohio
• Three tracks of focused concentration within the major:
  1. Science
  2. Social sciences/humanities
  3. Business administration

Ernsthausen Residence Hall has geothermal heating and cooling.

Earth Tub commercial composter. The school expects this composter to accept an entire semester's worth of food waste (100-200 pounds per day). They will use the compost waste on flower and landscaping beds.

On another note, BW just purchased and installed the lab equipment ($5-6,000) for a chemistry professor to begin the conversion of the school's kitchen grease into biodiesel fuel for buildings and grounds vehicles.

"We think we'll be able to ramp up to about 25 gallons a week and close the loop on that waste stream," says Dr. David Krueger, Charles E. Spahr Chair, BW. "Anticipated cost of production is less then $1/gallon so the pay-back period won't be that long."

"We're also aiming to get a small wind turbine up by the end of the academic year.

Much more promising, though, will be an old, 50-student residence hall we aim to retrofit and turn into a sustainability living/learning house.

We will be measuring the carbon footprint of the campus in the next year.

There’s a world to change. Let’s get this process going.”