We have a dedicated full-time faculty who teach environmental courses, exclusively ? we don't depend on the "kindness of strangers" from other departments to offer the bulk of our environmental courses.

Our "teachers" include the building in which we are housed: a bold, LEED-certified, 21st century "earthsheltered" structure that combines labs, project rooms, indoor and outdoor classrooms, faculty offices, the Redlands Research Institute and a roof garden covered by native grasses, rock and plant materials from which students can peer down into a hidden courtyard that separates the offices, labs and classrooms.