CELL News
Our CELL News section provides information, updates, and feedback for past, current, and future CELL students. A CELL experience is more than an exciting “study abroad” program. The purpose of any CELL experience is to ignite a life-long commitment to living sustainably and to giving and receiving support for this commitment through community. Students are introduced to concepts of sustainability during their semester abroad program, but more importantly, once they return home, they learn how to employ these concepts in their own lives through living sustainably and through implementing sustainability action plans in various communities.
Recent Blog Posts
Essential Harmony
In the depths of a modern city surrounded by man-made architecture, whooshing, buzzing, and flashing cues train us to flow to the tune of this anthropocentric structure. We are accustomed to thinking, behaving, and weaving within our synthetic reality. In cities,...
How to calve our CO2 emissions
Time. Whatever your belief, this is a seriously confusing concept. It doesn’t start. It doesn’t stop. It just goes. It seems to go one way, but if we labeled it as monotonic then we could be committing an error on the magnitude of those who thought the world was...
Environmental Activism in Iceland
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” - Elie Wiesel Landvernd is an Icelandic...
CAFETERIA CRISIS
Sauntering up to Vigdísarhús, I feel confident and nearly invincible. I have my posse, so to speak, a still slightly awkward jumble of friends from school and new acquaintances yet to form a cohesive and comprehensive unit, but far from uncomfortable introductions. We...
New Friends, Good Ideas
The first time I hung out in Graena Kannan Café, I hadn’t much expectations. I saw some familiar faces from our morning meetings drinking coffee, some other CELL students playing games. I’m usually nervous to meet new people, but everybody here is so friendly that...