by Iceland Study Abroad | Nov 5, 2017 | 2017 Fall Iceland
The next time I walk up to the seafood counter in any grocery store, I am going to pause and listen to the stories of those fish displayed behind the glass. I imagine closing my eyes and returning to Iceland’s Þingvellir National Park where I stood on a bridge...
by Iceland Study Abroad | Nov 5, 2017 | 2017 Fall Iceland
When it comes to how we feed ourselves, where should our priorities be? Minimizing my negative environmental impact has been a guiding interest in my life for the past two years; I spent a year fully vegan when I left for college. After I began studying the...
by Iceland Study Abroad | Oct 16, 2017 | 2017 Fall Iceland
I think it is fair to say that building strong communities is something that CELL Iceland strives to achieve. The program itself does so by offering the students different ways to build our personal connection to the communities in Iceland and Sólheimar Ecovillage....
by Iceland Study Abroad | Oct 15, 2017 | 2017 Fall Iceland
Yesterday as I walked the streets of the only road in sight, I was mesmerized by the unequivocal beauty in emptiness that filled the horizon. As far as the eye can see pastures with stalky horses and sheep grazed the hillsides, rainclouds sprinkled the landscape and...
by Iceland Study Abroad | Oct 15, 2017 | 2017 Fall Iceland
Job 12:7-8 says as following; “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you.” I think that this verse has really resonated with me...
by Iceland Study Abroad | Oct 15, 2017 | 2017 Fall Iceland
The film Racing Extinction is about species extinction and the current mass extinction event we are experiencing now because of human related causes such as ocean acidification or overfishing. I learned about the importance of plankton in freshwater systems from...
