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 Importance of Green Space in Urban Areas
by: Julianne Boulton The number of people who live in urban environments has been rapidly increasing for the past few decades. The United Nations recently predicted that by 2030 the global urban population would have reached almost 5 billion. This means that current...
Hola, hola
Hola, hola familia y amigos! How are all of you state-side? I hope well. I write to you all tonight watching the last bits of sunlight sink behind the westward mountains in Sabana Grande. Our time in the comunity of La Concha has come to an end, and while it was...
Reuse what you can’t recycle
by: Julianne Boulton Although carefully sorting out and sending your used items for recycling is a good practice, you can’t recycle everything that way. Many of those items that can't be recycled end up in land fill sites where they can remain for years depending on...
Telling people to save the world alone does not help!
by: Julianne Boulton We constantly hear that human actions are affecting our environment and that we need to be sustainable. We wonder why only a few people seem to care to take some action to save the world. The field of psychology may have an answer. In “The...
Ending our time in San Caralampio
Hola friends and family! ¿Que onda? As I sit down to write this post, I hear lively music coming froma nearby church. Something about the sound of so many voices singing together provides quite the uplifting atmosphere in which to write! It seems like there is always...