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
Semester Reflection – Sam and Teddy
The Wilderness, Within & Without
By almost any measure, our planet is in peril. With humanity wrenching trees from the earth, pumping CO2 into the sky, leaching toxins into the water and soil, and obliterating a thousand species a day, it seems impossible to choose just one critical issue of...
It’s Not Just Hippies!: A Regular Person’s Guide to the Homemade Eco-Village
When was the last time you saw your neighbour? When was the last time you interacted with them for more than a cursory “Good morning!” or some small talk while you got your mail? When was the last time you spent time with one or more of your neighbours just for the...
Fermenting Foods: Stepping Toward Self Reliance
It’s difficult to overstate the importance of food, perhaps most obviously because our biological reliance on it. Without food, we do not live. As our population as a species has grown, we’ve developed a complex global system of food distribution which, when you...
Let’s Get Physical!
Growing up, an integral aspect of my childhood was organized sports. Ever since I can remember, I have been involved in some type of sports team, whether it be the junior varsity and varsity high school soccer teams, the various hockey teams I was involved with until...