08-14-2012, 12:14 PM
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The Wizard of Oberlin Professor David Orr Turns Everything Emerald
THE WIZARD OF OBERLIN PROFESSOR DAVID ORR TURNS EVERYTHING EMERALD
By Bob Sipchen
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I've come to what may be the epicenter of America's economic, educational, and environmental salvation to meet a man some see as a wizard. His name is David Orr, and he has a big plan for turning little Oberlin College (2,800 students) and the little town of Oberlin (population 8,300) into a model of how our species can live more harmoniously with the rest of nature. It's called the Oberlin Project, and the goal is transforming everything from how people on campus and in town produce and use energy to how they build, eat, teach, and learn.
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"This little town, with its good people, could be—with just a bit of social and political acupuncture—the first example of integrated sustainability," Orr says.
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Cool Schools: The Wizard of Oberlin - September/October 2012 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club
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"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."
Aldo Leopold
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