“This is really a nice vibrant community to live in”
“The Slow Train Cafe and The Local are community-based enterprises. I think people can really feel that”
“Our son is in kindergarten so it’s our first Ecolympics! We’re excited!”
“My favorite way to interact with the environment is to plant things and make the planet brighter”
“To quote Kermit the Frog, "It ain't easy being green"”
“Really cool people come to stay with us - have become good friends”
“...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”
“When the weather is great, let's try and walk and bike as much as we can in town!”
“The fact that the Ninde Scholars program is student-driven is what makes me so proud of it”
“How cool would this be: you grow up here and go to college in some big city, and people find out you're from ‘Oberlin’ and instead of it being this small town that no one knows, it’s the town that paved the way for the country to become more sustainable”
“Shopping locally is a sustainable practice and there are ethics that surround that. The success of stores like Ben Franklin are an indicator of a healthy local economy”
“With a population of 8000 you know so many of the people personally — it’s easier to work together towards community sustainability”
“I'm grateful to have had an experience working in the larger community so early in my time here at Oberlin College”
“City Council created the Sustainable Reserve Fund to finance Climate Action Plan initiatives”
“I’m more in the mindset that if I can’t find what I need in Oberlin… I probably don’t really need it that much”
“An impressive 85% of Oberlin’s power is now renewable”
“Everyone here seems to be conscious of the environment and their own resource use”
“I’m learning to practice resilience; I may not have control over a situation, but I have control over how I react to it”
“There's a real sense of community in Oberlin -- a wide set of people coming together and getting to know each other”
“I think the whole community is really also beginning to embrace environmentalism and it is a community process of bringing awareness about taking care of the community here that will help us affect surrounding communities and the world”