Sustainability

The concept of the Sustainability Program at Darrow School is immediately evident to anyone, whether the time spent on campus is an hour-long tour, a four-year high school experience, or a twenty-year-long teaching career.

We view sustainability in far broader terms than simply environmental concerns. At its heart, sustainability is about our relationship to resources—social, economic, and environmental. We try to view everything at Darrow through a lens of sustainability, factoring in all three variables as we develop our civic responsibility for maintaining a sustainable community—on an immediate level, then branching out to the global world.

A three-pronged “sustainability paradigm” illustrates and guides the process. The paradigm presents society, the economy, and the environment as three points on a triangle. Our students use this model to guide their decisions. Civic responsibility turns the triangle into a three-dimensional context.

Darrow’s Sustainability Program extends beyond the boundaries of specific events or class periods and provides the canvas on which the School is painted. It is integrated throughout all areas of the academic and residential curricula; it is the foundation of unique extracurricular offerings; and it guides life on campus, making the Darrow experience an education in sustainable living, learning, and being. Sustainability is Darrow, because it provides a context for learners within the deep history, vital present, and purposeful future of this place.