Sustainability

For more than 55 years, Colorado Rocky Mountain School has practiced environmental stewardship and a commitment to sustainability. This interest in the environment and sustainability is a thread that runs throughout the school. From the academic classroom setting to the extensive active program, CRMS students, faculty, and staff are constantly looking for opportunities to implement and explore sustainable options both on the campus and beyond the school’s fences. On the following pages please find more information about our specific sustainable efforts and programs:

Student Centered
Organic Garden Learning Center & Kitchen
Solar Array & Campus-Wide

In support of this long-standing environmental commitment, the CRMS Board of Trustees adopted an Environmental Statement of Purpose in June, 2006.

“The Colorado Rocky Mountain School recognizes its measurable impact on the environment and its responsibility as an educational institution to be a leader in teaching others how to be better stewards of the Earth and our natural resources. We embrace our role in environmental stewardship by promoting environmental awareness through local action and global thinking throughout the CRMS community. We encourage conservation, recycling, and other sustainable practices in our daily decision-making processes, and shall take into account, in the building and operations of the School, all appropriate environmental, social, and economic concerns. At its most basic level, sustainability means meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.”

Click here for the complete Environmental Statement of Purpose