The following appeared in the May/June issue of International Educator magazine.
Josh Kessler, a student at Middlebury College, describes his sustainable education abroad experience, as told to IE.
I had some previous experience with sustainability projects but this was the first time that I would be leading an effort to promote sustainability. But once I talked to the director of the school and a chemistry professor, the project evolved into the idea that we would build an organic garden that could supplement the science curriculum by teaching the students about chemistry, the environment, and sustainability. The environmental and sustainability aspects of the project would be particularly important due to the fact that in Chile, especially in public schools, there is little emphasis placed on environmental education.
Declaring that “Cuba has never been more interesting,” Dean John Coatsworth of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University opened a seminar on 
I caught up with Mitch Smith (a native of Overland Park, Kansas and currently a journalism student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln) at NAFSA’s 2010 Annual Conference in Kansas City, Missouri. As this year’s winner of New York Times columnist Nick Kristof’s Win-A-Trip contest, Mitch traveled with Kristof to Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa in May 2010.
