Press Coverage

Adam Joseph Lewis CentrePost Carbon Fellow David Orr was recently intereviewed  by Sustainable Industries on the Oberlin Project. The article is picked up and featured here on Worldchanging.

From the article:

Sustainable Industries recently interviewed David Orr about The Oberlin Project and how his perspective on sustainability has changed over the last 20 years. In the interview he shares how The Oberlin Project, which seeks to combine art and science and business and academics, can be seen as a tool for "deepening the dialogue of sustainability":

"...in this dialogue about sustainability, which is now a global conversation, we have difficulty connecting the emotional part of the mind with the analytical part of the mind...The conjunction of this particular project of art and science is particularly important in deepening the dialogue of sustainability, what it means, what it will call on us to do."

Orr also talks about his excitement for The Oberlin Project functioning as a 'learning lab' for many different areas of sustainable living and development, as well as eventually integrating with a larger network of national sustainability sites:

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