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
The Case for Natural Building
Most houses today veer far from homes. A new house takes a lifetime to pay for and as real earnings decline, housing costs continue to rise, trapping people into 30-year mortgages. Homeowners take jobs they can't stand to pay for houses that don't suit them and...
What Do YOU Think About Recycling Food?
That banana peel. That old tomato. Those potato skins. That rogue heel of a bread loaf. Where do you put these things, these things you would normally never eat? Which road would you take? The path more traveled—the trashcan? Where these items go from the trashcan to...
For my three months in Iceland, I left shampoo and conditioner at home. Instead I packed a bottle of apple cider vinegar and a box of baking soda—this was found in the baking needs aisle of the local grocery store. These two containers held all I needed to wash,...
Go Plant a Garden!
Do you want to try to be more sustainable in the way you live? You should try planting a garden! Even better, try planting a permaculture garden! What is that you ask? Well, I’ll tell you. Having a permaculture garden is among other things having a garden that is...
Do more by doing less
Unsustainable resource use has led the world to the brink of total ecological collapse. Most educated people agree on this. Unless present human societies radically change their lifestyle habits (and breeding habits, too), the world of the future will be much more...