Leadership for Sustainable Infrastructure

Environmental Professionals Network Breakfast

All dates for this event occur in the past.

Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center
Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center
2201 Fred Taylor Drive
Columbus, OH 43210
United States

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE report card) and others continue to document that the United States is doing a very poor job maintaining and improving its infrastructure.  At the same time, there is a growing realization that we need to factor principles of sustainability and innovation into infrastructure planning, construction, and maintenance.  Orion Magazine regarded this topic as so important that it published a two-year series of articles, from summer, 2013 through summer 2015, Reimagining Infrastructure.  “Once a point of national pride and identity, America’s infrastructure is showing its age. Even in their heyday, the big infrastructure projects of the past were not always mindful of the communities in which they were built, nor did they reflect or respect the realities of life on a finite planet. But this is a finite planet, and many communities are imagining new systems and structures for transportation, food, water, waste, energy, and information. In the process, they’re creating new, more beautiful, more resilient public works. Welcome to Reimagining Infrastructure, a series from Orion exploring infrastructure solutions for the next generation.”

The next EPN breakfast will be featuring Aparna Dial, recently at OSU and now deputy administrator for the City of Columbus' Department of Public Servive.  Dial has great experience and insights on how to provide leadership for how to
maintain, improve, and innovate our regional, state, and national infrastructure, and to make it more sustainable. To register visit EPN website.

As in 2014 and 2015, this EPN breakfast will help initiate the School of Environment and Natural Resources-sponsored 2016 Ohio Environmental Leaders Institute.  Please check out the full 2016 OELI program and consider registering.  The August 9th EPN breakfast will help wrap-up this year’s OELI program.