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
Public Lands, National Parks Open To Oil and Gas Drilling During Government Shutdown
by: Courtney Remacle When Congress was unable to approve an appropriations bill and budget for fiscal year 2014, the U.S. government entered a shutdown period, where thousands of federal workers were furloughed and many “non-essential” government services have ceased...
ASAP Model Helps Make Backcountry Travel Sustainable
by: Courtney Remacle For many of us, an interest in sustainability is coupled with a love of nature and an urge to be outside. How often do we find ourselves feeling more calm, more centered, more whole when we have the opportunity to be out in nature? The therapeutic...
Postcard from CELL: Photos from Iceland Maymester 2013
CELL offers a study abroad program to Iceland. On this trip students will live at Solheimar eco-village & experience the Icelandic culture & environment. This postcard shows you a few of the many opportunities Iceland has to offer.
New IPCC Report Attributes Climate Change to Human Activity
by: Courtney Remacle The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in their first report in six years that Human influence has been detected in warming of the atmosphere and the ocean, in changes in the global water cycle, in reductions in snow and ice, in...
What does sustainability mean to me, Courtney Remacle?
Written by: Courtney Remacle I must pass over 1,000 trees on my drive to and from work. It is autumn now, and they are starting to change color. Soon the leaves will turn brown and drop to the forest floor while they will decompose slowly under a blanket of snow. In...