Iceland: Sustainability & Renewable Energy How can we use our natural resources to live more environmentally sustainably?

Visit the land of Fire and Ice! This is a 6-day tour of Iceland, visiting and learning about a country that embraces the geological aspects of their land to enjoy the great outdoors, and utilizes the thin crust to access and harness the inner earth forces to heat their sidewalks, pools, and showers. You will visit and learn about how this heat from the earth's core is used to grow food in greenhouses in the cold climate, visit the power plant in Reykjavik, which powers the country's capital city, as well as hike across one of the world's disappearing glaciers. We will learn and see firsthand how climate change is affecting the most northern climates and investigate how we can use our natural resources to live more sustainably.

Iceland Day 1 - By Martina & Catherine

Skalholt Church - Tenth church built on this site since the first construction in the early 1100s. Original capital of Iceland.
Secret Lagoon - Oldest hot spring in Iceland. More quaint and relaxing than the touristy Blue Lagoon.
Kerid Crater Stop - Lava crater hike within the Golden Circle. Thought to have been a pyramidal volcano that erupted and collapsed.
Breakfast Buffet at Viking World - Learned about the viking culture, including ship construction, war tactics, and burial rituals

Day 2: Continued Exploration of the Golden Circle - by Everett & Sebastion

Group photo from lake Pingvallavatn
The Gullfoss waterfall in Blaskogabyggo
A panorama photo of lake Pingvallavtn
The northern lights in Skalholt
A geysir a the Haukadalur Geothermal

Day 3 - The Glacier - By Matteo & Chase

Our group at the top of the glacier
Climbing down into a hole created by water flowing through the glacier, which is called a Mullan
Cannals created when the ice expands outwards and theres less pressure that would keep it flat
The group after the glacier hike

Day 4 - The Power plant - By Joe & Owen

Picture Taken inside the Power Plant. This shows the industrial workings of the plant.
These Pipes help process extra waste and create basalt rocks instead of the waste going into the atmosphere.
Skógafoss waterfall is a former marker of the coastline in southern Iceland. Now there is 5 Kilometers of land to the coastline.
Skógafoss is apart of the Skoga river and is 61 Kilometers (200 feet) high and moves at about 1,000 cubic meters (35,000 cubic feet) per second.

For a different format, please see the video diary of our last full day in Iceland made by Reagan & Kat! BTW - this background photograph was taken by Everett and his drone!