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
A Blog about Sea, Science, Sustainability and our inseparable connections with Big Blue
"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." Jacques Cousteau Our Oceans Our Lives is an educational blog chronicling inspiring stories and lessons learned during our sailing expedition from Maine to Florida to the Bahamas and...
Hestvatn
A couple of days ago, we went on a hike along Hestvatn, the lake near the bottom of Hestfjall (Horse Mountain). It was a nice, relaxing hike, approximately four miles round trip in the Kiðjaberg area, and it was not as steep or strenuous as our other hikes. We spent...
Art and Human Ecology in Iceland
A professor once said, “If anyone asks you what human ecology is, tell them that you will give them an answer once they can give you a satisfying definition of art.” I still do not have a sufficient description of either, but Iceland is full of both art and human...
Þingvellir National Park
This week we visited Þingvellir National Park, one of Iceland’s most popular tourist attractions. For tourists, the park is probably most notably famous for its geological significance. Its rift valley marks the crest of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the boundary between...
Coffee Break
Coffee Break: the primary reason Icelanders are excited to go to work (in my humble opinion). Similar to the American habit of “Standing Around the Water-Cooler,” it is the cultural phenomenon revolving around warm beverages, getting workers of all kinds out of their...