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Faculty with sustainability interests:
Atiles, Jorge; Bartholomew, Rick; Beitz, William; Brock, Susan; Swinney, Jane; Kang, Mihyun; Lee, Hyunjoo; Limbaugh, Diane; Richards, Lynne; Lyon, Melinda; Hebert, Paulette; Petrova, Adriana; Russ, Randall; Peksoz, Semra; Ownbey, Shiretta; Kimberly Williams; Drab, Ted; Peek, Gina; Brown, Barbara; Julie Huber; Njite, David; Slevitch, Lisa; Mary Rupert-Stroescu; Cosette Armstrong
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DID YOU KNOW? That Oklahoma communities are concerned with these issues?
Go green, be eco-friendly, recycle
Lack of basic life skills
Fruit and vegetable consumption
Food safety
Sustainable environment
Global warming/weather changes
Pollution, litter
Environment
Bad soil
Air & water quality
Energy independence
Health/wellness
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Current Faculty Interests:
- Reduce food waste, etc (see logic model for issue team)
- Lighting retrofit research and consumer behavior changes in rural Oklahoma
- Carpet recycling
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IMPACT | INNOVATE
Improve the environment
Promote healthy lives
Conserve our resources
Create economic value
Invent – Patents that advance lives
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Innovative Ideas @ Work:
- Organic food products: behavior and implications for sustainability in OK (Hyunjoo Lee)
- Lighting retrofit research and consumer behavior changes in rural Oklahoma
- Denim Recycling (Celia Stall-Meadows)
- Carpet recycling, create facility in Stillwater for economic development. Use nylon for military purposes? (various faculty)
- Hazardous waste recycling for OK, hazardous waste such as CFLs bulbs, batteries, etc.
Outcomes we want to effect in Oklahoma
- Increase purchase and use of food and beverage containers that do not negatively impact the environment and food system/chain
- Increase selection and home preservation of home produced local and regional foods
- Decrease per person food waste
- Increase number of Oklahomans who compost [and recycle]
- Oklahomans will maintain private water supplies and reduce runoff
- Increase number of Oklahomans donating goods for others to use
- Oklahomans will increase energy efficiency
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