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
A First Glimpse at Biodynamic Farming
It is difficult to believe that I have already been in Iceland for two and a half weeks. Time passes strangely here, moving both fast and slow. Already, our little group has had so many amazing experiences. The one that stands out most clearly in my mind is the trip...
Skaftholt Farm: “Ordinary” World Citisens and Their Place in Environmentalism
As an environment and sustainability studies major with a focus on agro-ecology, there’s never been a doubt in my mind that environmental sustainability goes hand in hand with the “green-ing” of our food production. Agricultural malpractice contributes to the...
What one can learn from bats
The United States of America, as well as most of Western culture, has constructed entire industries based on the concept of convenience. These industries make billions of dollars per year supplying us with things we don’t need. There is nothing wrong in profiting from...
Dear Mom and Dad, Camp is fun
We arrived here in Nicaragua two weeks ago, although to me it feels much longer. We've gone on hikes, learned to identify plants, swam and kayaked on one of Nicaragua's lakes, and even made friendship bracelets out of an old hammock tassel. We've become close enough...
CELL Central America 2015 Arrives
Hello friends and family. We have arrived and are all safe, happy, and excited to begin the semester. The students are up at El Piscacho ensconced in Spanish lessons, and I have taken the morning to come down to La Concha and sit in a cyber. Perhaps a little...