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
The Importance of Visiting
Seeing pictures, reading books and watching movies about our environment evokes emotion and inspiration to take action. However, these forms of media have a threshold for motivation. I find that in order to be passionate about a place, one must visit and explore the...
Beautiful Challenges
Our most recent group exploration to South Iceland was one for the books, and something I will never forget! Just when I thought I had seen an abundance of the landscapes that Iceland had to offer, I was taken aback by that which I hadn’t yet experienced. When we got...
Sustainable Business Model
Action Plan Logo by Nicole Marino I believe that businesses should do everything in their economic power and availability to work with sustainable systems to provide quality, environmentally safe, and low/carbon neutral goods and services. Currently, I run a small...
the pilgrimage
the pilgrimage nicole marino I finally saw the glaciers after hearing about the melting for years. I was surprised that in the time it took me to arrive they weren’t already gone basalt black crusted with newly scraped mountainsides blanket covering: protection from...
Blog #15: Beauty and Presence
Only in the light of beauty can we come to see what is really present. – John O’Donohue Most of us have had breathtaking experiences in nature. Perhaps watching a brilliant sunrise or sunset, or gazing at a seemingly endless ocean where sea and sky blend into one...