by CELL Staff | Sep 30, 2013 | Staff Column, Sustainability News
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...
by CELL Staff | Sep 28, 2013 | Meaning of Sustainability, Staff Column
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...
by CELL Staff | Jul 12, 2013 | Staff Column
Written By: Emily Osborne If you’ve walked down the aisles of a grocery store recently, it’s likely that you’ve passed products with “non-GMO” written on the label. Maybe it’s played into your decision of whether or not to buy the product. Or maybe you’ve thought,...
by CELL Staff | Jul 10, 2013 | Staff Column, Sustainability Tips
Written By: Emily Osborne I travel a lot. With family and friends scattered across the globe, my college over 3,500 miles from home, and an irrepressible desire to explore the world, it’s natural to find me on the go. I spend countless hours in airport waiting...
by CELL Staff | Jul 10, 2013 | CELL Reviews, Staff Column
Written By: Emily Osborne Water. We all know it’s an essential life ingredient. Every day we are likely to drink it, bathe in it, brush our teeth with it, and use it to wash our dishes. So, should we consider water a fundamental human right or a corporate...
by Gordon Liu | Jun 26, 2013 | Meaning of Sustainability, Staff Column
Written By: Binbin Li Sustainability consists of various components and different dimensions all around our lives. Sustainable resources include water, trees, wind, solar energy and a lot more resources that you could or could not imagine. But only a health ecosystem...
by CELL Staff | Jun 24, 2013 | CELL Reviews, Staff Column
Written By: Emily Osborne Have you ever wondered where your iPod came from? Where does it go when it breaks and you throw it away? Annie Leonard answers these questions (and many more) in her movie called “The Story of Stuff.” In 20 minutes, she decodes our current...
by CELL Staff | Jun 23, 2013 | CELL Reviews, Staff Column
Written By: Emily Osborne Ok, I’ll admit that before watching this movie, I wondered how someone made a full-length documentary solely about dirt. It goes to show just how much I had to learn, and proved the director’s point in making it! So, what’s it all about? The...
by CELL Staff | Jun 21, 2013 | Staff Column
Written By: Jonas Burke I love my laptop and use it daily. It is a sleek powerful machine that, in milliseconds, can tell me anything I care to Google. But behind the glamor of this dazzling piece of technology resides a truth that is at odds with my environmentally...
by CELL Staff | Jun 21, 2013 | CELL Reviews, Staff Column
Written By: Emily Osborne I recently enjoyed reading Paul Hawken’s latest bestseller, Blessed Unrest published in 2007. Hawken is an acclaimed environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author. He has founded several companies and organizations, traveled the world...
