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
Community on Earth
It is easy to forget just how small humankind is and how dependent we are on each other and our natural surroundings. In my short time in Iceland, I have learned about the strength of community and how dependent we are on the magnificent Earth. The CELL group has...
Learning Through Life
One topic that has peaked my interest so far this semester has been the concept of shifting paradigms. We have explored readings by authors like Fritjof Capra and Arne Naess who examine the ways that our modern culture perceives the environment, and how that limited...
Local Vegetables in Iceland
“Icelanders go in debt just trying to eat”, one local told me. And it’s true, there is very little available in Icelandic grocery stores in terms of fresh, affordable produce. But lamb, one of the country’s largest commodities, is always local, fresh, and abundant....
Community on Earth
It is easy to forget just how small humankind is and how dependent we are on each other and our natural surroundings. In my short time in Iceland, I have learned about the strength of community and how dependent we are on the magnificent Earth. The CELL group has...
Growing Soils and Building Community
It has been an absolutely great time to have visited two organic farms in Iceland within a matter of only two weeks. Sólheimar is a beautiful Eco-Village and it has a magnificent greenhouse. Of all places in Iceland, I would have expected this town in particular to be...