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Todd Rothe standing in kitchen

Northland Announces Food Systems Center

…Systems Center, which includes food processing and composting facilities, a hoop house, a fruit and nut tree grove, perennial and demonstration gardens, and academic programming. The first phase of the Food Systems Center—the food processing and composting building—will be completed this spring. The building, three years of startup funding, and…

Straw bans? Composting buckets?

Wisconsin Campuses Adopt Dramatic 'Green' Changes

At tiny Northland College in Ashland, on the shores of Lake Superior, most if not all students have a compost bucket in their dorm room or apartment. Once or twice a week, community residents, in addition to students, come to campus with buckets of food waste to dump in the…

Northland College Food Center Director Todd Rothe stands in front of the composting machine.

Northland College Wants Your Leftovers

Community Compost Program

composting machine, installed in 2017 at the rear of the Hulings Rice Food Center on campus has greatly expanded the college’s ability to deal with food waste. The industrial-strength composter can take 70,000 pounds of food scraps and 26,000 pounds of leaves and wood chips and convert them into 32,000…

Northland College alumnus Tiffany Kirsten stands with fellow activists along the border of Texas and Mexico

Careers in Social Justice, Conservation, and Public Service

SOEI Interns

…years as a classroom-based and outreach environmental educator at Eco-Cycle in Boulder County, Colorado; and for two years with BioVan, focused on the Rio Grande and its watershed. She taught zero waster concepts, including composting, recycling, source-based reducing, and reusing. Her specialty: composting with worms. This year she made a…

Drawing of the earth with clouds and flowers.

Love Your Planet Sustainability Night

February 15, 6:00 pm8:00 pm

…student sustainability leaders, will give short talks about two of our waste initiatives on campus: TerraCycle and composting. Divide into teams for the Know Your Waste Relay Race, participate in a Q&A with NCSA’s Director of Sustainability, and then wrap the night up with everyone’s favorite: a Kahoot! (A phone…

The Chequamegon Food Coop at night.

The Language of Local Foods

Meagan (Wilson) Van Beest ’97 manager at CFC

…dinnerware to the College to be turned into compost that will be sold to the farmers to grow more local food. “When I started at Northland College, composting was just taking off and the community gardens were still in the baby stage of things,” she said. “I would say that…

Lake Superior and beach

Geologic Perspectives on Climate Change

…to address the issues of climate change. At Northland College, we have moved to divest from fossil fuels, embraced local food preservation and composting through our new Food Systems Center, and are pursuing lasting initiatives to be carbon neutral by 2030. In addition, our educational mission strives to help students…

The McLean Environmental Living and Learning Community (MELLC)

The Princeton Reviews Guide to 332 Green Colleges: 2014 Edition

…Published in time for the April 22 celebration of Earth Day, The Princeton Review highlights the Northland College’s commitment to local foods, composting and sustainability academic offerings. “Northland College isn’t just meeting sustainability standards — it’s setting them,” the guide reports. The Princeton Review chose Northland College based on a…

Northland College students in garden

The Campus Garden Crew

…attending the farmers market.   Sam Phelps, sophomore Major(s): sustainable community development In addition to Garden Crew: Sam is also one of the managers in Northland’s composting program How he got here: Sam spent two years in central America volunteering with various non-profits. His first year was spent learning about…