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
Nature Deficit Disorder in Children (And What We Can Do About It)
When you think about steps you can take to become more environmentally sustainable, what do you usually picture? If you're like many people, you probably think of concrete actions, like turning off the water when we brush our teeth, or purchasing organic food. But...
What Does Sustainability Mean To Me?
Sustainability has been quite a buzz word that businesses like to use to differentiate their products and service. In China, the government has also been promoting the concept of sustainable development. I did not fully understand its meaning, but still used it...
A Night With the Aurora Borealis
On the night of Saturday, February 21, 2015, I bore witness to one of the most beautiful sights in my life: the Aurora Borealis, otherwise known as the Northern Lights. The sheer beauty and spectacle of the solar waves hitting Earth’s atmosphere was unlike anything...
The Lunar Calendar
The first and only time I’d ever heard of biodynamic agriculture prior to going to this farm was in the film Our Idiot Brother. Which was a short and entertaining introduction; “What is biodynamic, exactly? I've never understood the difference between that and...
Open House & Open Heart
During our first week in Sólheimar, we hosted an open house and invited everyone from the village to come to our home and mingle. We baked all afternoon in anticipation for the party and set up coffee and tea. Slowly interns and volunteers trickled in, filling the...