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
Start small, start now!
Does sustainability sound like a big topic for your daily life? Not at all! For my fellow college student friends, take a look around your dorm room. It may be able to only hold a few essential furnitures, such as beds, chairs, desks, closets. But...
Taters and Beauty
The world is so freaking beautiful: (Lava field in the heart of Snæfellsnes – unedited – no filters) Nine weeks ago I had stars in my eyes. I knew I was boarding a plane bound for beauty, my intentions bloated with all the love and worry I have for my children and the...
Reusable Water Bottles
Purchasing a reusable water bottle is perhaps the easiest thing anyone can do to move towards a more sustainable lifestyle. One plastic bottle can take up to 1000 years to decompose and, needless to say, they are filling up our landfills faster than they can do so....
Reduce, Reuse, Rethink
“To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things—products, packaging, and systems—from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.” -William McDonough and Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle It is common for the modern...
Going Meatless for our Planet
Meat and dairy consumption is the highest contributor to both greenhouse gases and deforestation, and has a high impact on water consumption and pollution. The meat industry emits some of the highest amounts of nitrous oxide and methane, which are both greenhouse...