Northfield Mount Hermon : Sustainability

Sustainability at NMH

Northfield Mount Hermon School, located on a beautiful hillside in western Massachusetts, has a deep and longstanding commitment to living responsibly on the land. A strategic planning process begun in 1998 asked faculty, staff, and administrators to think forward in defining education for the 21st century. The process named several key elements of an exciting and effective education for the future, including the development in our community of an environmental perspective. To that end, our curriculum now begins with a required ninth-grade Humanities course in which students investigate their own identity and the nature of place through literature and religious studies. Later in the curriculum, our older students explore their relationship to the environment across the disciplines.

As a boarding school, our curriculum extends into our daily lives and includes discussions about how best to live sustainably. The NMH Task Force for Sustainability leads the discussions and helps define the work that needs to be done here at school and, more broadly, beyond our borders to our local communities and around the world.

Thomas K. Sturtevant
Head of School