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
Listening to Fish
The next time I walk up to the seafood counter in any grocery store, I am going to pause and listen to the stories of those fish displayed behind the glass. I imagine closing my eyes and returning to Iceland’s Þingvellir National Park where I stood on a bridge...
Which fish?
When it comes to how we feed ourselves, where should our priorities be? Minimizing my negative environmental impact has been a guiding interest in my life for the past two years; I spent a year fully vegan when I left for college. After I began studying the...
Blog #7: A New Climate Conversation
“Together we can build a world we want, a world we’re proud to leave our children and grandchildren.” – Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General We sailed 96 miles up the Potomac River from Chesapeake Bay to the Navy Yard on the Anacostia River in Washington D.C....
Blog #6: The Big Apple to our Nation’s Capitol
You were born of the stars, dear girl; Stop settling for the dust they leave behind. (Daniel Walsh) On October 17th, I offered a Climate Action Now (CAN) program at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in the Bronx for the school’s Environmental Club. The club has...
Blog #5: Sailing into the Big Apple
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. (Thomas Jefferson) On Saturday, October 14, Dave, along with two friends: Karen and Steve, sailed down the East River from Long Island Sound – beneath 9 iconic bridges, by the...