Environmental sustainability

Based on its long standing tradition of community service and stewardship of the natural world, Shining Mountain Waldorf School is committed to environmental stewardship in its planning, practices, and educational direction. In the context of its overall mission, Shining Mountain seeks to encourage environmental awareness and responsibility in the daily life of the school.

- Sarah Gillis, SMWS Class of 2012 and Sr. Space Operations Engineer at SpaceX

“I feel like one of the really important things that you get out of a Waldorf education is curiosity—curiosity to go and learn and explore what’s out there in the world. I fell into engineering and a path that I don’t think I would have anticipated, but having an arts background where you’re bringing creativity and imagination into problem-solving, there’s a really incredible synergy between those.”

- Sarah Gillis, SMWS Class of 2012 and Sr. Space Operations Engineer at SpaceX

Nature is Essential for Learning