News

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.

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.

Oberlin’s march toward carbon neutrality will become a little more visible this week as crews begin removing a limited number of trees and bushes, making possible the multi-year, campus-wide heating and cooling overhaul that will make Oberlin a national leader in clean energy.