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
Why Greenpeace’s New Director Changed The Way I Cleaned Out My Closet
On May 6 Greenpeace USA announced that Annie Leonard will take the helm as the Executive Director of Greenpeace starting in August 2014. Leonard is the creator of the 2007 short web film The Story of Stuff, which explores where all the "stuff" we consume comes from,...
What does sustainability mean to me, Christina Dou
I think I am familiar with sustainability. It is a word I have been hearing since elementary school. But when I sit down and think quietly, what is sustainability? I can only think of the counterpart, a series of outcomes that will happen if we forgo sustainable...
Farmers Markets 101
It's mid-May, which means that farmers market season is in full swing. For the next several months, markets across the country will have fresh produce, dairy, meats, baked goods, and other products ready for the sustainable shopper to swoop in and snag. If you live in...
What does sustainability mean to me, Jessica Edington?
For my first post as CELL's newest Content Intern, I was given the assignment to write "what sustainability means to me" in approximately 300-500 words. That should be easy enough, I thought, and went ahead and wrote the post all about what sustainability means. I...
Iceland 2014 Maymester
Welcome to the Center for Ecological Living and Learning's (CELL's) Iceland 2014 Maymester program blog. CELL is a non profit educational organization inspiring leadership in sustainability. During this semester program, seven students and two faculty will be having...