Green Policy

The Cottonwood Institute is committed to walking our talk in terms of environmental sustainability. Here are a a few things we are doing to reduce our environmental footprint:

• We purchase wind-credits through Green Heart Institute to offset our CO2 emissions.
• We strive to be a Zero Waste organization, meaning that we attempt to recycle and compost our waste and minimize the trash that we produce. At the Base Camp Bash, we compost all of our food waste, plates, and cutlery and at our Outreach Programs and public events, we email handouts instead of passing them out.
• We try to buy local and organic food during our courses.
• We try to recycle or compost our waste after our courses.
• We try to send people to our website instead of printing promotional materials.
• We take advantage of email instead of printing and mailing materials.
• We encourage carpooling for meetings and events.
• We encourage telecommuting, conference calls, and video conferencing.
• We reuse or recycle office paper.
• We use compact florescent light bulbs and turn off lights when they not in use.