FLSI@Oberlin

The Foresight Leadership and Sustainability Initiative at Oberlin College (FLSI@Oberlin): An unparalleled summer experiential learning opportunity for highly-motivated high school students ready to create change, and become the next generation of sustainability leaders. Participate in intensive, hands-on learning, build relationships with established professionals, experience life on campus and join an ongoing network for support in future educational and career paths. Visit www.ForesightLSI.org for more information and to apply.

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FLSI@Oberlin teaching/residential assistants Max Herzog and Jenny Goldsmith take on the Sierra Club's sustainability college rankings. From the perspective of a student concerned about sustainability -- what really matters when choosing a school?

The Foresight Leadership and Sustainability Initiative at Oberlin College (FLSI@Oberlin) is a summer, pre-college experiential learning program where high school students concerned about issues of environmental sustainability and social equity will hone their leadership skills and become more effective changemakers. Visit www.ForesightLSI.org for more information, and to apply!

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Join Max and Jenny -- FLSI@Oberlin teaching/residential assistants -- for an exciting tour of the tricked-out dorm where students will reside this summer!

FLSI@Oberlin is a one-of-a-kind campus-based, pre-college summer experiential learning opportunity for high school students concerned about issues of environmental sustainability and social equity. Visit www.foresightLSI.org for more information, and to apply!

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Max Herzog and Jenny Goldsmith are current Oberlin students... and future mentors to youth changemakers as residential/teaching assistants during FLSI@Oberlin. In this videos, learn everything you never knew you needed to know about Max, Jenny, burritos, sweaters and more! ...Then apply to FLSI@Oberlin to spend two weeks with this awesome duo. 

FLSI@Oberlin is a pre-college, campus-based experiential learning program for current high school students concerned about issues of environmental sustainability and social equity. Visit www.foresightLSI.org for more information, and to apply! 

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Foresight Leadership & Sustainability Initiative

at Oberlin College (FLSI@Oberlin)

  A Unique Summer Institute for High School Students:

TAKE PART in intensive, uniquely hands-on learning, facilitated by respected teacher-practitioners.

VISIT inspiring sustainability initiatives, from community farms to corporate headquarters;

DEVELOP your leadership potential;

BUILD relationships with established professionals;

EXPERIENCE life on one of the country's most forward-thinking campuses;

FOSTER a more diverse, inclusive sustainability movement;

FORGE an ongoing network to support their future education and career.

Learn more and APPLY. 

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The students began last Friday morning by talking about vacant land use issues with Terry Schwarz, director of the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative at Kent State University. 

SustainLab is phase 1 of FLSI@Oberlin — www.ForesightLSI.org, now accepting applications from highly-motivated high school students for summer 2014!

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Last Friday, the SustainLab group visited Ohio City Farm during a Cleveland field trip day. 

SustainLab is phase 1 of FLSI@Oberlin — www.ForesightLSI.org, now accepting applications from highly-motivated high school students for summer 2014!

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The SustainLab group w/ Program Manager Tim Jones-Yelvington.

SustainLab is phase 1 of FLSI@Oberlin — www.ForesightLSI.org, now accepting applications from highly-motivated high school students for summer 2014!

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Leaders Wanted: Apply Now!

Martin Luther King Jr. exemplified many of the leadership qualities required to address sustainability-related challenges: vision, courage, and commitments to equity and community. 

This summer, FLSI@Oberlin will develop the next generation of sustainability leaders: motivated high school leaders ready to create change -- APPLY NOW! 

What is leadership for greater sustainability? from Foresight Design Initiative on Vimeo.

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Andrew Watterson -- Cleveland's former Chief of Sustainability and currently a Senior Consultant at Brown Flynn -- talks to the students about Appreciative Inquiry -- a tool for social change that engages a community and its existing assets. 

The SustainLab Winter Term project is phase 1 of the Foresight Leadership and Sustainability Initiative (FLSI@Oberlin), now accepting highly-motivated HS students for summer 2014: www.ForesightLSI.org.

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"Growth in a finite system is impossible, particularly when that growth is at the expense of life support." -- Carl McDaniel speaks with the students about how the lessons of Ernest Shackleton's leadership might apply to climate change. 

The SustainLab Winter Term project is phase 1 of the Foresight Leadership and Sustainability Initiative (FLSI@Oberlin), now accepting highly-motivated HS students for summer 2014: www.ForesightLSI.org.

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"You can't always plan everything out in advance, the best thing to do is to have a basic values system." ... "With every project, there is a catalyzing phase, and a maintenance phase." -- Local foods leader Brad Masi (OC '93) on social entrepreneurship 

The SustainLab Winter Term project is phase 1 of the Foresight Leadership and Sustainability Initiative (FLSI@Oberlin), now accepting highly-motivated HS students for summer 2014: www.ForesightLSI.org.

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"Once you make a commitment, you want to behave consistently with that commitment. What we try to do with the Oberlin Project is remind people, You committed to sustainability." -- Kristin Braziunas of the Oberlin Project speaks with the students about efforts to create a resilient, prosperous and sustainable community. 

The SustainLab Winter Term project is phase 1 of the Foresight Leadership and Sustainability Initiative (FLSI@Oberlin), now accepting highly-motivated HS students for summer 2014: www.ForesightLSI.org.

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Students' systems diagrams are coming along. <i>SustainLab is phase 1 of FLSI@Oberlin, now accepting highly-motivated HS students for summer 2014: www.ForesightLSI.org.

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Learning to practice principled -- as opposed to positional -- bargaining. <i>SustainLab is phase 2 of the Foresight Leadership and Sustainability Initiative at Oberlin (FLSI@Oberlin), now seeking highly-motivated high school students for summer 2014: www.ForesightLSI.org.</i>

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"It's more future-oriented, and more change oriented." Oberlin students talk about sustainability and leadership. 

Future leaders WANTED: The SustainLab Winter Term project is phase 1 of the Foresight Leadership & Sustainability Initiative at Oberlin (www.ForesightLSI.org), now accepting applications from highly-motivated high school students for our summer 2014 session. 

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"Being a leader is thinking about how to empower individuals, how to provide them with tools without telling them what to do with those tools." -- Peter Saudek, SustainLab student 

The SustainLab Winter Term project is phase 1 of the FLSI@Oberlin program (ForesightLSI.org), soon accepting highly-motivated HS leaders who are concerned about sustainability for our summer session.