“We do some pretty serious composting at Kendal. I’ve been saying we should get rid of the lawn-mowers and buy some goats!”
“A good coffee shop creates a sense of warmth, inclusiveness, patience, understanding and humanity”
“Having a garden is definitely a super power!”
“Creative and community driven...Oberlin students will be our next leaders”
“Our generation is starting to stand up and fight back against climate change”
“My climate action plan is to design, build, and advocate for solar power”
“The Garden is a place where I can be useful and connected to both a community organization and a natural ecosystem”
“We use environmental practices in the renovation of our Oberlin rental properties. For example, we currently use a geothermal heating system”
“I love how Tappan Square has trees from all 50 states”
“The Pay-it-Forward program is the spirit of who we are as a church, and who we strive to be as churches in the community”
“Ecolympics makes me feel like I am contributing to greater sustainability”
“Pushing the boundaries of community resilience can lead to great creativity”
“Oberlin’s Climate Action Plan is a community plan. Ecolympics shows how all of us together can make it happen!”
“Oberlin is vibrant and growing because of all of the ideas that come out of the community”
“I'll be walking in the middle of Tappan Square and it's like an oasis...for a moment I am in Central Park in New York City”
“Oberlin as a town and as a college is progressive, forward-thinking, pushing the envelope”
“Oberlin community’s identity as a leader has re-emerged in the context of another generation-defining challenge: climate change”
“The journey in protecting the environment is long. Oberlin has begun, but there’s so much more we could be doing”
“On Covid: Remembering that everyone is going through similar, and perhaps more difficult experiences, helps to put things into perspective”
“Everybody helps everybody in Oberlin”