Fostering a sustainable campus and educating students to work toward a sustainable future are core Punahou values that the School encourages inside and outside the classroom.
The School has invested significantly to reduce its carbon footprint and become an educational model for green building design and sustainable practices.
In addition to fostering a campus culture that holds sustainability as a core value inside and outside the classroom, Punahou has invested significantly in efforts to reduce its carbon footprint and to be a model for other schools in sustainable facilities design, programs and teaching philosophies. In 2018, the School announced the goal of becoming a net-zero campus.