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Rural Action commends Jackie O’s with 2023 Sustainable Business Award
At its 2023 Annual Meeting in June, Rural Action recognized one local business’s longtime commitment to sustainability. It awarded Jackie O’s Pub & Brewery, ... Read More
OhioHealth O’Bleness is leading Ohio’s hospital systems in sustainability
In 2016, OhioHealth O’Bleness Hospital looked at their waste production and began asking this question: what can we do about all of this?
That’s when they ... Read More
Service member Mary Popa curates upcycled art exhibition
AmeriCorps VISTA Mary Popa is sharing her skills with not only her host site, Rural Action’s social enterprise Community MakerSpace, at 751 West Union ... Read More
Washington County teens receive Rural Action 2023 Sustainability Award
Rural Action recognized two Washington County teens at its 2023 Annual Meeting for their outstanding passion and work in agricultural education.
Rural Action awarded Fort Frye ... Read More
Celebrate new True Pigments facility at the groundbreaking June 29
Millfield, Ohio—The groundbreaking for the first phase of the True Pigments Acid Mine Drainage Treatment and Pigment Production Facility will occur at 10 a.m. on ... Read More
Athens-Hocking Solid Waste District volunteer event made possible thanks to ServeOhio grant
The Athens-Hocking Solid Waste District (AHSWD) has been awarded a 2023 ServeOhio Day Project Grant to improve the counties’ only center for hard-to-recycle materials facility.
On ... Read More
From Africa to Appalachia
Local problems require global solutions. Nobody realizes this better than Darlington Mafa, of Zimbabwe, and Felician Ezekiel, of Tanzania, whom Rural Action hosted as Community ... Read More
Making quality food accessible in Appalachia
For the fourth year in a row, Rural Action helped provide thousands of produce prescriptions to Mid-Ohio Valley families to make healthy food — and ... Read More
Mineland reclamation revives historic hotel
Thanks to collaboration between Rural Action and many partners, Vinton County’s sole and historic hotel will once again be in operation at the heart of ... Read More
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