Green Passport Program Participants

Agnes Scott College

Agnes Scott College introduced the Abroad View Green Passport program and Code of Conduct to study abroad students at its pre-departure orientation in 2008.

Beloit College Office of International Education introduces its study abroad students to the principles of the Green Passport program. Beloit College student Alice Starr Dworkin was an inaugural Green Passport holder. Read about her experience in Turkey.

*Ithaca College

Astrid Jirka, Outreach Coordinator for Study Abroad Programs at Ithaca College, helps manage the Green Passport program.

Ithaca College's Office of International Programs makes a $500 Global Footprints Grant available to a student enrolled on any spring or fall semester Ithaca College study abroad program. This carbon offsetting initiative requires students to propose a research topic of study on the subject of sustainability that they
can reasonably accomplish while overseas. Completed proposals are reviewed by a committee composed of faculty and staff involved with sustainability on campus and one proposal is chosen for each semester.

*Living Routes

Daniel Greenberg, Executive Director of Living Routes, helps manage the Green Passport program.

Living Routes, which is an educational non-profit organization that partners with the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to run semester, summer, and January programs based in ecovillages around the world, was the first study abroad program to institute a comprehensive carbon offsetting program for its operations. Living Routes also hosts the sustainability abroad listserve for those interested in exchanging information around the theme of sustainability in study abroad.

*Middlebury College

Stacey Woody Thebodo, Assistant Director of Off-Campus Study at Middlebury College, helps manage the Green Passport program.

Middlebury College has made a commitment to becoming carbon neutral to help address global warming. It offers Sustainable Study Abroad Grants of up to $500 to undergraduates studying at the C.V. Starr Middlebury Schools Abroad, as well as Middlebury students studying abroad on approved non-Middlebury programs. Grants may be used for research projects or participation in events or projects related to sustainability issues; this may include projects or research that look at ways of reducing the human impact on the environment, enhancing social well-being, or economic development that addresses the environment and/or social well-being.

*University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Rodney J. Vargas, Assistant Director for Latin America, Africa and the Middle East for the Study Abroad Office at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, helps manage the Green Passport program. He conceived of the idea for the "Green Passport" because of his concern about the impact of the increasing number of students going to study all over the world. Read his story here.

*Colleges and organizations that helped develop the Green Passport program, which began in 2007.