Sustainability Commitments

four middle school students wearing gardening gloves planting seeds for starters outdoors with grass and trees in background

Our school value of kindness extends to how we treat the natural world. We’re committed to solutions both on and off campus that help protect the environment.

Meet the Green Team

A cross-constituent group of teachers, staff, and students, known as the Green Team, develops ideas and practices to engage our community in becoming more environmentally sustainable. Recent and current initiatives prioritized by the Green Team include:

  • Executing a Strategic Energy Management program through the Energy Trust of Oregon, with the goal of reducing energy use in key buildings and across campus.

  • Updating the school’s lighting and HVAC systems to maximize efficiency.

  • Collaborating with Middle School teachers to plant a beautiful pollinator garden on campus to attract and sustain native species.

  • Working closely with the Upper School’s Environmental Action Team to educate the campus community on these new initiatives.

Environmental Action Team

The Environmental Action Team (EAT) is a student-led, faculty-advised club that focuses on a range of environmental projects in partnership with the school's Green Team and the school's student government. Recent efforts by EAT include:

  • Maintaining Oregon’s first Tiny Forest, which was planted in 2022.

  • Organizing a swap of school-branded clothing during Homecoming to reduce waste.

  • Auditing garbage and recycling receptacles in the Upper School and standardizing the bins in an effort to lower contamination of the school's recycling efforts.

  • Supporting the planning and development of a pollinator garden to aid native butterfly and bee species.