SEEDS - Volunteering for Iceland

Environmentally Awareness in February

22.02.2019

Currently, SEEDS is hosting an Environmentally Aware camp with participants from China, South Korea, and Taiwan. In the last few days we have organised an urban Clean-Up around Reykjavik; we went on the Golden Circle excursion; we visited the Whales of Iceland museum; we went on a guided tour...

Photomarathon, Auroras & Lights festival

17.02.2019

We have just finished another successful Photomarathon camp! For this time, we had participants from China, Germany, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Switzerland, and Taiwan. This camp started on the first day of the Winter Lights Festival which is an annual event that brings life to...

A day at the Reykjavik Tool Library

29.01.2019

The past week we took our SEEDS Environmentally Aware volunteers to visit the Reykjavik Tool Library, a great new project in Iceland that promotes circular economy. We hope we're getting more and more people inspired to reduce, reuse and repair! Zero waste for the win!

Visit at the whales of Iceland Exhibition

28.01.2019

Our winter "Environmentally aware" camps have been hard at work cleaning the Reykjavik coastal area! After a hard working morning the group had the opportunity to visit the "Whales of Iceland" exhibition. The exhibition shows 23 man made life size models of various whale species...

New Year's Environmentally Awareness camp

03.01.2019

After an intense week full of workshops, activities, sightseeing and a crazy NYE party, it is time for our Environmental Awareness volunteers to wrap up all they've learned and prepare a final presentation about their countries' environmental status. Tonght we will have a multicultural...

Christmas Environmentally Aware in Reykjavik, and Aurora Hunting Photo Marathon

14.12.2018

Today, a group of volunteers from Russia, Korea, Mexico, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Portugal, and USA are exploring Iceland’s Golden Circle! We’ve started the dark morning with an environmental class about how Iceland uses its natural resources (volcanoes and water) to produce renewable energy:...

Sandra Yñiguez's last Photomarathon camp with SEEDS

03.12.2018

For the SEEDS 133 camp: Winter Photography & Aurora hunting, our volunteers had plenty of activities related to the photography field. The camp started with a jam-packed workshop about Photography Basics which gave all the volunteers the tools and knowledge on how to approach the manual mode of...

What have our Environmentally Aware volunteers been up to in November?

30.11.2018

Filipa Gomes, one of our Environmental Messengers and co-leader of our latest SEEDS 134 Environmentally Aware in Winter camp, wanted to update everyone on what her group of short term volunteers has been doing this past week. Here is what they have been up to... This week our volunteers...

Winter in Iceland is anything but boring!

15.11.2018

Winter in Iceland is anything but boring! Reykjavik has a positive and proactive attitude, where something is always happening. And guess what? We are all the time keeping an an eye on it so we don't miss a thing. In our last Environmental Aware camp we had loads of fun and plenty...

SEEDS 130. Environmentally Aware and Airwaves Festival in Reykjavik

10.11.2018

Winter in Iceland is everything but boring! Reykjavik has a positive and proactive attitude, where something is always happening! And guess what? We're full time with an eye on it so we don't miss a thing. In our last environmental camp we had loads of fun and plenty of new...