#flsi@oberlin

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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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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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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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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.