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
Sustainability Through Community
Throughout history, humankind has lived in common houses, used communal tools and shared land for hunting, gathering, and recreating. Only recently have humans determined it necessary for individual families to have their own homes, tools and land acting as a barrier...
CELL Iceland Spring 2017
Welcome to the CELL Iceland 2017 Blog.
The Smart Grid and Storing Renewable Energy Sources
Among the challenges in large scale renewable energy implementation to the grid, namely wind and solar, is storing electricity to balance out the inherent variance in production that comes with these power sources. Enormous batteries owned and operated by the utility...
Banning Plastic Bottles
Banning Plastic Bottles By Angelica Byrne The sustainability through community plan I chose to take into action is the banning of plastic bottles on the campus of the university I am attending. Not only plastic bottles being sold at our distinct cafeterias, but also...
Banning the sale of disposable plastic water bottles on Hope College’s campus
Banning the sale of disposable plastic water bottles on Hope College's campus By Alexandra Webb For my community action plan, I would like to propose banning the sale of disposable plastic water bottles at my school, Hope College. With the help of the student-led...