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
Blog #2: Climate Action Now in Portland, Maine
Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up. (David Orr) On October 4, Dave lead two Climate Action Now (CAN) programs in Portland. The first was a presentation for David Vaughn’s marine biology class at the Waynflete School. It was exciting to be back in a classroom...
Blog #1: Setting Sail from Maine to Florida on a Climate Action Now (CAN) and Ocean Conservation Odyssey
The sea, once it cast its spell upon you, holds you in its net of wonder forever... (Jacques Cousteau) Dave, co-director of CELL, headed out to sea on the vessel Tusen Takk (“a thousand thanks”) on Monday, October 2 on a 7 month climate action now (CAN) and ocean...
A Sense of Home
The farm I worked at in high school often hosted school trips to come and help out for the day. The students would drag their feet off the bus and look completely miserable: they clearly did not want to be there. Why would a middle-schooler want to work on a farm...
Tourist or Not
Going into the South Iceland trip this past weekend, I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect. I knew we were going to areas that tend to draw more tourists and I wasn’t exactly sure how we were going to fit into that spectrum. At first, I felt like a tourist, as I am...
Réttir!
The Réttir, or annual sheep gathering, is a long standing tradition that is steeped in rich history and community building. Many people, of all ages and assumed differing backgrounds, gather to participate in the day long festivities. One aspect farmers and the...