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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.

Oberlin College has been named a 2021 Excellence in Energy Award winner by NRG Energy, Inc. for the significant impact of its sustainability initiatives that achieve notable environmental and social benefits.

Bond enables Oberlin to initiate substantive progress on four-year project to build new geothermal energy system for the campus; new energy system will be a critical component in College’s ability to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025.

While serving as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Mexico this fall, Johan Cavert ’20 also plans to provide support to asylum seekers and refugees.

Fifteen Oberlin College students played a key role in conducting a climate vulnerability assessment for the Oberlin community. This unique collaboration between the city and the college is the initial step in developing a climate adaptation plan.

Oberlin College & Conservatory will take an important step toward carbon neutrality this summer as it launches a multi-year, campus-wide conversion to geothermal energy, positioning the institution as a national leader in clean energy.

The course will focus on what’s driving change in the business world while defining the role of sustainability.

December 12, 2020, marks the five-year anniversary of the world coming together to sign on to the Paris Agreement for global climate action. To commemorate this moment, Oberlin College has joined more than one thousand leaders from local governments, businesses, tribal communities, and other institutions across the country as a signatory of the ‘‘America Is All In’’ joint statement.