Environmental Wellness
What does environmental wellness mean to you?
Environmental wellness encompasses both the natural environment and your social environment. It is about how you interact with your community, nature and even yourself. Learning to appreciate how human activities affect the earth and taking positive steps to live in harmony with your surroundings.
Strategies for improving your environmental wellness
- Become an advocate of consistent usage of recyclable materials.
- Cultivate community and well-being
- Patronize local markets-eat freshly harvested food while reducing transportation related pollution
- Prudent usage of resources such as water, electricity and fossil fuels
- Whenever possible walk, ride your bicycle or take public transport to your destination
- Take time out to learn how to take care of and interact positively with your surroundings and the earth in general
Resources for developing your environmental wellness
- Sustainability at OSU
Energy Sustainability
Advancing sustainability through its instruction, research, outreach, administrative decision-making, innovative design and operation of facilities, and daily behavior.
Environmental Science Sustainability Resources
Learn about recycling efforts in the community and on campus as well as connect with sustainability-minded community organizations.
Sustainability resources for the OSU community
OSU Botanic Gardens
Engage the senses, unleash your imagination and wander a trail of discovery at The Botanic Garden, home ofOklahoma Gardening. Enjoy the walking trails and the beautiful display gardens featured onOklahoma Gardeningand explore ways to build a more sustainable living environment.
Lake Carl Blackwell
Lake Carl Blackwell has nine distinct campground areas available for public use. Please select from the different areas below to get a feeling for each area.
Friends of Lake McMurtry
Nestled 10 miles outside of Stillwater OK, Lake McMurtry is the perfect family friendly getaway. Come try out a kayak rental and spend your day soaking up one of Oklahoma's most Spectacular sunsets!
Tulsa Zoo
With its 83 acres of lush surroundings and hundreds of animals, the Tulsa Zoo offers a picturesque setting and a unique experience for you. From lush, natural outdoor settings to wonderful indoor spaces, the Tulsa Zoo offers dozens of unique locations with their most popular animals in full view.
Myriad Botanical Gardens and Crystal Bridge Conservatory
The Myriad Botanical Gardens is one of Oklahoma City’s most beloved public spaces, offering its visitors a 15 acre natural escape in the very heart of the metro known as downtown Oklahoma City. A children’s garden, an off-leash dog park, the Park House restaurant, “splash fountains,” as well as paths for walking and jogging provide guests young and old with a place in which to find solitude with nature or seek community and the company of others
Oklahoma City Botanical Gardens
Oklahoma City Zoo
Oklahoma's premier destination connecting people and our world's vanishing wildlife and wild places.
Oklahoma Parks and Recreation
Explore Oklahoma'sMust-Visit Attractions And Roads Less Traveled.
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