The Journey Begins

Here is the first short clip of the journey from Hamilton to India. You can also find it on YouTube.

April Baptiste

how many trees does it take to gobble up 15,000 miles of carbon?

In just 12 days I will be boarding a jet at JFK International Airport, bound for India.  As we lift off from New York, there will be a lot of things on my mind about the trip---what will we see? what will we eat? when do we get to meet Aishwarya Rai?  Finding out the answers to these questions is going to be an amazing adventure.  But there is one question I have already figured out: what is the "carbon footprint" of sending 27 Colgate faculty to the other side of the world, and back?

Twelve Days until Departure

As you’ll know from the title of this blog, Colgate University is sending twenty-seven of its faculty members to India for two weeks in January in order to “enrich the Core curriculum.” I am one of the lucky twenty-seven, and I confess to being utterly daunted.