Being mindful of our organization's use of and adverse impacts on the Earth's natural resources, CIS is committing organizational resources to integrate environmental awareness and responsibility into our overseas programming and daily operations.

In being a leader in the sustainable study abroad movement, CIS has implemented the following strategy as part of its overall organizational mission and vision:

• Educating our program participants about their ecological footprint and providing them with options for reducing and offsetting it;
  
• Encouraging full degree students to offsett their program related travel;
  
• Reducing and/or recycling inputs and outputs in our daily operations including minimizing the amount of printed materials used in advertising and in participant preparation;
  
• Decreasing CIS energy and fuel consumption by using clean energy where possible, scheduling tele-meetings, and offsetting remaining energy use and CO2 emissions with appropriate carbon offsets;
  
• Sourcing all of our necessary inputs from green, local sources using biodegradable and high post-consumer-waste recycled content; and,
  
• Enacting an environmental service day that contributes to the restoration of the planet as part of our CIS Volunteer Service Commitment.