Theology
Environmental Sustainability
The beauty of the Heathwood Hall Episcopal School campus, the state of South Carolina, and the world beyond inspire and inform our commitment to vigorous environmental sustainability and stewardship. Our Episcopal foundation calls us to advocate for and articulate our dedication to protection of the environment and preservation of the sanctity of creation.
Therefore, Heathwood Hall’s Board of Trustees has developed and adopted a Policy Statement for Sustainability. As a result, the School has stated its intention to recycle, to use local and organic produce, to purchase from green sources, to engage in environmentally responsible building and renovation, to plant low impact landscaping, to use alternative energy sources, and to engage in environmental education and service for all its constituencies, in particular for students, who must acquire a commitment and sensitivity to environmental stewardship.
- By incorporating environmental education and stewardship into our actions, we acknowledge the fundamental importance of the natural world.
- By engaging our surroundings as extensions of our classrooms, we act locally while thinking globally.
- By seeking and strengthening partnerships with many local innovative environmental organizations, we honor and support environmental action.
- By nurturing questions, explorations, and projects about our role in the biosphere, we foster the growth of responsible environmental stewards.
Practice
Heathwood Hall is proud to practice environmental stewardship in a number of diverse ways. With a dynamic student body, campus, faculty and staff, there is no shortage of means in which our community actively works to practice what we preach.
Formed in 2011, our S.E.ED. (School Environmental Education) Committee works to represent, organize, and share the numerous environmental efforts that our school champions. To keep our community apprised of our latest S.E.ED. developments, quarterly newsletters will be made available below.
Click here to read our latest newsletter - Spring 2012
Click here to read our inaugural S.E.ED. Newsletter - Fall 2011
Columbia, SC 29201