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How infrastructure, collaborative partnerships, and student involvement helped Oberlin achieve carbon neutrality

Ten ways Oberlin builds sustainability into campus life—via academics, internships, activities, and so much more.

How our work as a community helped us achieve carbon neutrality.

Geothermal heating and cooling system comes online, supports Oberlin reaching 100 percent carbon neutrality by 2025. 

Four-year project to convert campus heating and cooling system set for drilling of 850 geothermal wells.

Campus solar fields maintained by truckloads of hungry livestock.

Wide-ranging collaboration to address food justice across the region through the humanities.

Each year, Green Energy Ohio presents Green Achievement Awards to individuals, businesses, universities, nonprofits, and government and community entities for the work they have accomplished in advancing GEO’s mission. Oberlin College will be recognized as the 2022 recipient of the Green Achievement Award for Academia.

Oberlin College, in collaboration with the Oberlin City School District, has received a $50,000 award from the Ohio Environmental Education Fund to complete the Environmental Dashboard system that will be incorporated in the district’s new elementary school.

A large flatbed truck parked on North Professor Street late last month brought the first of 126 trees to be planted in Oberlin this semester.