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
Waste Pickers: environmentalists in need of human rights
by: Julianne Boulton Everyday thousands of men, women and children in developing countries rummage through the dumps of some of the world’s most populated cities. They look for waste items that they can be sold to middlemen who will go on to sell them to factories...
Composting to reduce waste
by: Julianne Boulton Natural organic matter (essentially anything that is living or was once alive) goes through a growth (build-up) and decomposition (break-down) cycle. When we throw away anything that can be composted, the material ends up in a landfill site. The...
Food Wastage: Global Environmental Impacts
by: Julianne Boulton Cutting down trees and harmful fumes released from burning fossil fuels are probably some of the first reasons that come to your mind when you think of the causes of environmental loss. Let’s step back for a moment and take a look at the bigger...
Sabana Grande
In contrast to the bustling and commercial city feel of La Conception, it is in the much quieter, pastoral pueblo of Sabana Grande that our CELL group currently resides. Over a week has passed since the group arrived via microbus, stepping out onto the dirt road...
Turning down your thermostat and not noticing it!
by: Julianne Boulton Space heating accounts for more than 40% of the energy used in U.S. homes, according to the most recent Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) . This means that you can save energy and money by reducing the amount of heating you use. You can...