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
How To Get Ready To Leave The Country: A Traveler’s Guide
by: Courtney Remacle Whether you're gearing up for your CELL trip (lucky you!) a traveler, doing other study abroad, or just going where the wind takes you, getting ready to leave the good ol' US of A for an extended period of time can be exciting, challenging,...
Billboard Displays Sunrise in Beijing; Real Sunrise Blocked By Smog
by: Courtney Remacle A New York Times reporter tweeted this photograph of an LED billboard displaying the sunrise in Beijing while the city beneath it was cloaked in smog and pedestrians surely unable to see the real sky. This photograph is a stark and sobering look...
What does sustainability mean to me, Julianne Boulton?
One of my first lessons in sustainability was learnt from a cartoon that was shown in a famous children’s television series. As I remember, a short cartoon showed a little boy brushing his teeth while leaving the tap open. The water that flowed from his tap was from a...
Central America 2014 Spring Semester
Welcome to the Center for Ecological Living and Learning's (CELL's) Central America 2014 spring semester program blog. CELL is a non profit educational organization inspiring leadership in sustainability. During this semester program, seven students and two faculty...
Buy Nothing Day 2013
by: Courtney Remacle Since 1997, an Adbusters campaign known as Buy Nothing Day has worked to remodel Black Friday, one of the 10 busiest shopping days of the year and a day notorious for out-of-control crowds, into a day of action-or rather, inaction. As the title...