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
Racing Extinction and Community Building
I think it is fair to say that building strong communities is something that CELL Iceland strives to achieve. The program itself does so by offering the students different ways to build our personal connection to the communities in Iceland and Sólheimar Ecovillage....
Empty Space
Yesterday as I walked the streets of the only road in sight, I was mesmerized by the unequivocal beauty in emptiness that filled the horizon. As far as the eye can see pastures with stalky horses and sheep grazed the hillsides, rainclouds sprinkled the landscape and...
A Changing Perspective
Job 12:7-8 says as following; “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you.” I think that this verse has really resonated with me...
Racing Extinction
The film Racing Extinction is about species extinction and the current mass extinction event we are experiencing now because of human related causes such as ocean acidification or overfishing. I learned about the importance of plankton in freshwater systems from...
The Learning Community
Now that we’ve reached the halfway point, I’m beginning to realize that I’m learning without noticing it. Not only this, but it feels as though I’m being equipped, rather than simply taught. Being a student is very easy for me. I tend to excel in the traditional...