A 19-month international project connecting sustainable travel, mental well-being and community — turning everyday journeys into journeys of impact.
Sólheimar · Steinninn / CC BY 4.0
Eco Rangers — Journeys of Impact is Circa's flagship collaboration with Slovak Eco Quality (SEQ), a 19-month programme exploring how we travel, how we care for our own well-being, and how both are tied to the health of the planet.
Working with adult educators and community members, the project co-creates practical, reusable tools that help people move through the world with a lighter footprint and a deeper connection to place. Learning happens in both countries — from training weeks in Slovakia to hands-on activities at Iceland's Sólheimar Eco Village — and lands back home through local workshops and community events.
As part of Eco Rangers, we mapped sustainable spots around Akureyri — places to repair, reuse, eat and travel more lightly. Watch how we did it, then explore the interactive map.
Our Westfjords mapping workshop built a companion map for Ísafjörður and its surroundings — bike shops, second-hand stores, a local brewery and quiet natural spots worth a slower visit.
Across 2026, Eco Rangers came to life through a series of hands-on workshops all over Iceland — from clothing and bike repair to city mapping, reflective writing and well-being sessions. Here is the full programme.
From Circa's YouTube channelA community clothing swap and repair session — exchanging garments and learning basic mending, showing that lighter travel starts with reusing what we already own.
A mindful morning of meditation and reflection, exploring how caring for ourselves and caring for the planet feed one another.
Two days mapping the sustainable side of North Iceland on foot and by car — the places that make mindful, low-impact living easier. Explore the interactive map above.
Simple journaling techniques for well-being and emotional regulation while travelling — connection over consumption, with just a notebook and pen.
Reflection, creative writing and guided meditation on our bond with the sea — and the small everyday actions that help protect it.
Flateyri · Christian Bickel / CC BY-SA 2.0 DEA companion mapping workshop in the Westfjords — finding repair shops, thrift stores and natural spots, and reflecting on sustainable travel. Explore the interactive map above.
A guided “time-travel” visualization on long-term thinking and intergenerational responsibility, linking today's choices to past and future generations.
A bicycle-parts swap paired with a hands-on repair café — building basic maintenance confidence and championing cycling as accessible, sustainable transport.
Everything Eco Rangers produced is free to download, share and reuse — in English, Icelandic and Slovak. All files are PDFs, and each link shows its size so you know what you are opening.
The project's main publication — a practical look at travelling with a lighter footprint: transport, packing, food, accommodation and the everyday choices that add up, written for travellers and educators alike.
A pocket checklist distilled from the guide — what to think about before you go, while you are away, and once you are home again.
Eco Rangers: Facilitating Impactful Journeys — the full training-course methodology, with ready-to-run sessions such as Emotional Awareness While Traveling, Pack Smart, The Ripple Effect and The Council of All Beings, including timings, materials and facilitation notes.
Step-by-step methodology for the eleven community workshops — from repair cafés and clothing swaps to ocean therapy, plogging and mapping local green spaces — so any organisation can run them.
A set of ten illustrated posters bringing the project's messages to life — ready to print at A4 or A3 for classrooms, offices and community spaces.
Produced under Erasmus+ small-scale partnership 2024-2-IS01-KA210-ADU-000265496, co-funded by the European Union and administered by the Icelandic National Agency (Rannsóknamiðstöð Íslands). These outputs are free to use and share — please credit Circa and Slovak Eco Quality.