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
Backyard Vermicompost
Action Plan Logo by Kendra Allen The goal for my action plan is to create a vermiculture compost in my backyard that will help better enrich the soil in our garden. My family has composted in the past, but since moving and getting busy with other things, it has been...
Compost System for My Parents
Action Plan Logo by Sarah McCord For my action plan, I would like to help my parents set up a compost system for their food scraps. Click here to read Sarah's full action plan. [tag ] [category action-plans] [pin 2079752350]
Blog #9: Norfolk to Charleston and Hope for a Healthy Climate Future
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. (Bernard Williams) My brother, Jon, and I had a wild and wooly 250 mile sail from Norfolk, Virginia to Moorhead City, North Carolina on a forty hour - 25 to 35 knot Northeast blow – surfing 8 to 9...
Blog #8: Lessons Learned from History, Sea Level Rise and Climate Change
“Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level." (UN Global Warming Report) On Friday, November 3rd...
Skaftholt Biodynamic Farm
Visiting the Skafthold Farm is like visiting the farm you read about in fables. There are adorable animals like chickens, cows, and sheep. The chickens run freely, across the pasture, and happily peck about. The dairy cows munch away at their hay and cautiously...