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
Góðan daginn
The community of Sólheimar begins each day with morning meeting. Before the church bells ring nine o’clock, everyone gathers in the gym (or outside when it is warmer) to welcome the beginning of a new day. I begin by removing my shoes and scarf in the entranceway...
The Heart of Solheimar
Through several of our class lectures and discussions, we have seen that the power of community is at the heart of social and personal well-being, as well as collective, transformative change. Looking back I can pick out several different forms of community that I...
Reducing your food miles
by: Julianne Boulton Food miles refer to the distance that your food travels from production until it gets onto your plate. The issue of how food miles can increase your food carbon print gained prominence with the publishing of “The Food Miles Report” in 1994. The...
Selva Negra
As we leave Selva Negra for Granada, in transit to Costa Rica, I think I can speak for most of the group when I say that we feel satisfied and accomplished. Not only did we wipe out the restaurant’s entire supply of chocolate bars while simultaneously developing...
Sustainable Printing Practices
by: Julianne Boulton Printing a document requires input from a number of resources. Sometimes there is no alternative to printing a document. Printing only when it is essential and practicing the most sustainable methods to print can help decrease the impact your...