Ashland University’s 2009-2010 Environmental Lecture Series, “Sustainability and Environmental Issues in Ohio,” continues on Nov. 5 when Dr. Casey Hoy with the Agroecosystems Management Program at The Ohio State University’s Ohio Agriculture Research and Development Center in Wooster (OARDC), will speak on “Local Food Systems, Local Economies, and Healthy Agroecosystems.” The lecture is at 7:30 p.m. in the Hawkins-Conard Student Center Auditorium and is free and open to the public.