Environmental Stewardship

Environmental stewardship applied research at Olds College of Agriculture & Technology focuses on five main areas of innovation:

Surface water quality remediation.
Agricultural climate change management practices (mitigation and adaptation).
By-product development and utilization (zero waste agricultural sustainability strategy).
Co-production of agricultural commodities and renewable energy in the same space.
Agriculture land stewardship considerations such as re-establishing shelterbelts and eco-buffers (green infrastructure).

Olds College is most active in water quality remediation applied research due to fresh water fast-becoming a limited resource across the prairies and around the world. Researchers are specifically assessing low-cost, but highly effective, water treatment technologies.

Environmental stewardship comes in many forms and plays a pivotal role in almost every applied research project implemented on the Smart Farm.