Sustainability Abroad
Begins With You
A Hamilton College Global Learning Sponsored Project
Climate change is human led — but students traveling abroad have the unique power and privilege to avoid contributing excessive emissions during their time away. The EcoExchange Project, sponsored by Hamilton College, is an endeavor to make traveling abroad sustainably easier.
See the resources on this website to make the Forum on Education Abroad’s Standards of Good Practice Pledge, build better travel paths to other EU destinations, and learn how to give back to your host city.
With a special focus on programs out of Copenhagen, Madrid, and Paris, this guide provides travel alternatives to the big transportation sector emissions offender: flying.
Make A Sustainable Travel Plan
Find out how to get to your future new favorite cities across the EU.
While travel is inherently polluting, you have the ability to make your CO2 emissions a fraction of what they are typically when you fly. See travel itineraries to EU destinations from the host cities of Copenhagen, Paris, and Madrid.
The Numbers.
Click below to get a look at the stats. While numbers might not be everyone’s favorite, they are essential to projections of what current and future lived experiences of climate change look like.
For the Traveling Bookworms
Hamilton College’s seminar course Sociology of Climate Action and lecture course Climate Change have inspired this digital library. From light tid bits of climate news to more nuanced scientific papers, this library aims to give you access to a portion of course material that can better your climate education. Enroll in these courses if you would like to actively further your climate education when you are back on camps!
Beginnings.
An assignment in Sociology of Climate Action inspired the video above, and the ExoExchange Project as a whole.
Here is the video if you are curious!