“Sustainability is asking yourself ‘Am I living a lifestyle that can be perpetuated and shows respect for the future?' It is about being more mindful of one’s mark on the planet”
“To grow the love within Oberlin, we just need to continue the good things that we do now!”
“People in Oberlin are willing to adopt new ways of doing things in order to help the environment”
“I try to figure out how to walk the talk of sustainability in my own life”
“The Dashboard shows us how much electricity and water each school building is using. That’s cool!”
“It's important to take care of the environment because right now, there's a lot of pollution. This hurts the plants and animals, which hurts us because we lose our food”
“It's kind of my motto: more life. Get more life going”
“It's joyful to bring students with me and see the self-esteem that the [Grafton] men are gaining through music”
“Oberlinians eat super local: almost 50% of residents grow some of their own food!”
“I have been looking on the Dashboard to see Flash and Wally since I was in preschool! It brought to light issues I didn’t know about before”
“There are endless good ideas out there in Oberlin that are waiting to be heard, I want to go hear them”
“I think around here, a business has to be diverse and serve different functions to sustain itself and we definitely do that”
“I’ve made some really great friends in Oberlin”
“Members of the Oberlin Fire Department posing with their wagon in front of the old station in 1892”
“It is important that we learn from the pandemic and relate it to how we can address the climate crisis”
“My climate action plan is outfitting our building (inside and out) with new energy efficient lighting”
“Pushing boundaries not only increases resilience but can lead to greater creativity”
“The city climate action plan is important – I want my children’s children to be able to swim in clean water”
“We should be excited, supportive, helpful and hopeful about these next twenty years in this town and what we can create”
“...you come to Oberlin and there's students walking around, any day of the week...Most outside towns, Saturdays are busy days. Oberlin, every day you've got movement in town”