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“Not many towns own their own electric utility. We do. So we can control where our electricity comes from.”
Kelley Singleton, Long time Oberlin resident
Climate Action
Community Voices
Motivate and empower
Community Voices combines images and words drawn from the full diversity of a community to celebrate and cultivate thought and actions that advance ecological, economic, and social resilience. Community Hub’s unique software makes it easy to build, manage, organize and customize content into powerful messages for display on digital signage, phone apps, and websites.
“Not many towns own their own electric utility. We do. So we can control where our electricity comes from.”
Climate Action
“The quality of local food is way better. You're buying from a face instead of a company.”
Serving Our Community
“My favorite way to interact with the environment is to plant things and make the planet brighter.”
Natural Oberlin
“Our son is in kindergarten so it's our first Ecolympics. We're excited.”
Next Generation
“Being Oberlin's Energy Advocate is not just a job, 9 to 5, I kind of live it and breathe it.”
Neighbors
“I'm old school. I don't buy anything pre-made. It takes more labor to control it from start to finish, but the quality is better.”
Our Downtown
“We're raising awareness about the future. Later is too late.”
Climate Action
“Communities are only sustained when people care about each other and have a sense of interconnectedness.”
Neighbors
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Listen to and celebrate your community.
Highlight and celebrate the positive thought and action shared by the members of your community
“The quality of local food is way better. You're buying from a face instead of a company.”
Jason Adelman, Owner of The Feve
Serving Our Community
“My favorite way to interact with the environment is to plant things and make the planet brighter.”
Leigha, 6th Grade Student at Langston Middle School
Natural Oberlin
“Our son is in kindergarten so it's our first Ecolympics. We're excited.”
Lydia, Oberlin Community Member
Next Generation
“Being Oberlin's Energy Advocate is not just a job, 9 to 5, I kind of live it and breathe it.”
Greg Jones, Energy Advocate at POWER
Neighbors
“I'm old school. I don't buy anything pre-made. It takes more labor to control it from start to finish, but the quality is better.”
Mike Cariglio, Owner Lorenzo’s Pizza
Our Downtown
“We're raising awareness about the future. Later is too late.”
Matthew Dewitt, OHS '25
Climate Action
“Communities are only sustained when people care about each other and have a sense of interconnectedness.”
Lillie Estes, OC '22
Neighbors
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Sort, access and display content categorically
Community Voices content can be grouped based on subject matter, offering robust collections of material relevant to the following categories:
Serving Our Community
Features the sustainability-related work of community organizations, public schools and city government workers
Our Downtown
Includes positive thoughts, commitments and actions of those who own, work in and shop from local businesses, encouraging the recognition and importance of supporting the local economy by supporting local businesses
Next Generation
Features words and often artwork by and about children in the community. While children are important agents of change within a community, they are not often provided with a public platform to share their thoughts and ideas with the larger community. The “Next Generation” CV category provides a space for and boosts young voices
Heritage
Includes images and words reflective of a community’s legacy of stewardship and engagement on sustainability-related issues. The environmental, social and economic challenges and leadership opportunities that a community faces today build on the historic challenges and opportunities that the community has faced and addressed in the past.
Oberlin has not saved a slide in this category yet.
Natural Oberlin
Includes images and words that relate to the natural and cultivated beauty of a community. Photographs and artwork emphasize people interacting with and appreciating the natural world in order to reinforce interconnectivity and people’s sense of pride and belonging to an ecological place.
Neighbors
Features quotes from members of a community who are, through their personal examples, promoting sustainable actions in their homes, backyards, gardens, neighborhoods, etc. Those featured develop a sense of pride and identity as community leaders. Those viewing the material see “people like me” – and ideally people they recognize – exhibiting pro-environmental and pro-community behavior, thus establishing and reinforcing positive social norms
Climate Action
Features actions, big and small, that community members are taking to address climate change.
What people say about Community Voices
“When I see the dashboard sign in our lobby, I get that good feeling that people are doing good things”
“Psychology and marketing teach us that what we believe other community members are doing powerfully influences our own behavior; Community Voices encourages pro-environmental and pro-community behavior”
