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
beginning here and now
The words of environmental activist Wangari Maathai have stuck with me this semester, “Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You are just talking.” After watching the documentary Taking Root about Maathai’s...
Snæfellsnes Peninsula
Traveling and hiking around West Iceland was an incredibly eye opening experience for me. While exploring the Snæfellsnes Peninsula, I could take in the beauty of the area while also observing some of the effects that tourism has had on the vegetation of these places....
West Iceland Highlights
For our second overnight trip, we went to the west of Iceland, to the Snæfellsnes Peninsula. It was a very beautiful part of Iceland, especially with the ocean right below the cliffs. I think my favorite part was making the various stops to see different views of the...
Blog #4: Nature Holds the Key to Life
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. E.O. Wilson I had a moment this morning that was a window into why I love the ocean. After a week of beating into southwest winds, rolling seas and adverse...
Blog #3: The Role of Adventure
“The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, it’s not an adventure until something goes wrong – that’s when adventure starts.” (Yvon Chouinard) Solo sailing from Thomaston, Maine to Portland to Portsmouth was rather idyllic with beautiful sunrises and sunset, fair...