The Four Rivers Institute was inspired by the simple beauty and healing power of wild places. We feel that the way to become stewards of the environment is to interact with it.  This is something that is difficult to quantify or express in a syllabus, it must be experienced.  That experience in turn dictates that we establish sustainable communities.   Our students will learn to rely on their classmates and forge relationships both within the group and with their environment that are simply larger than themselves.
 Sustainability is a goal that will be set at the beginning of each year and the students will be challenged to achieve it.  Rather than simply set forth rules they will be forced to examine their impacts and, as a team, determine how they can lessen them.  From “Leave No Trace” while on expeditions to solar power on campus, to negotiating work exchanges with local food producers, they will learn how their individual efforts can significantly benefit the community.  

“ Everything on the earth has a purpose and every man a mission, this is the Indian theory of existence.”
Morning Dove
Salish

 

The Four Rivers Institute was inspired by the simple beauty and healing power of wild places. We feel that the way to become stewards of the environment is to interact with it.  This is something that is difficult to quantify or express in a syllabus, it must be experienced.  That experience in turn dictates that we establish sustainable communities.   Our students will learn to rely on their classmates and forge relationships both within the group and with their environment that are simply larger than themselves.
 Sustainability is a goal that will be set at the beginning of each year and the students will be challenged to achieve it.  Rather than simply set forth rules they will be forced to examine their impacts and, as a team, determine how they can lessen them.  From “Leave No Trace” while on expeditions to solar power on campus, to negotiating work exchanges with local food producers, they will learn how their individual efforts can significantly benefit the community.  

“ Everything on the earth has a purpose and every man a mission, this is the Indian theory of existence.”
Morning Dove
Salish