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.

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Recent Blog Posts

Closing The Loop

When you place an aluminum can in the recycling bin, what happens to it? It is send to a factory that melts it down, and makes new products out of it, typically another aluminum can. What happens when you flush the toilet? Your waste is most likely sent to a treatment...

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Icelandic Horses

Aside from the wondrous landscapes of mountains, hot springs, and waterfalls, Icelandic horses are about the most iconic thing to represent this country. Being in Sólheimar, there are many farms with horses nearby to visit and form a connection with these, most of the...

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Northern Lights in Solheimar

One night, as we sat in the Solheimar hot pot under the stars, a few members of our group struck up a conversation with a caretaker who works in the town. We were talking to him about how we wanted to see the Northern Lights, as we had been in Iceland for almost a...

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Realities of Damming

Last week we visited Landsvirkjun, Iceland’s national power company. Before we met with their representative, the group made a stop at the Búrfell Dam. As always in Iceland, I was captivated by the beauty of the surrounding landscape. However after more reflection I...

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