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
Made in…Solheimar!
As a Chinese, I always enjoy joking about “You’d better treat me well, or I will tell my people to stop making stuff for you.” Looking around in a house, you can find large part of your belongings are made in China or other developing countries, where there are cheap...
Welcomed With Open Arms
Who is going to the ceramic workshop? How about the greenhouse? Weaving? Bakery? Soap? How about woodworking? Did you already go there last week? Would you be willing to trade spots? This is how we close every Icelandic course on Wednesday mornings right before lunch....
My Favorite Part About Solheimar
One of my absolute favorite things about living in the Solheimar Ecovillage is participating in the workshops. I look forward to Wednesday (the day we go to them) every single week. From woodworking to weaving, from soap making to Sunna (the greenhouse) I...
Sòlheimar is grounded in the arts of traditional craft making. The Sòlheimar workshops are vibrant with artwork, from woodworking to weavery, largely designed and crafted by the “home people,” how the community refers to the disabled community. Home people have the...
Hey, Doritos!
“Hey, Doritos! Why you not eating meat today?!” These words, lobbed in my direction daily by one of the home people residing at Sólheimar year round, rank as one of the indubitable highlights of my every lunch hour. Earning the nickname ‘Doritos’ because I once got...