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Sunset at Forest Lodge

Changing Climate, Changing Culture

Student-Led Conference at Forest Lodge

…in Washington DC this summer, and again at the Guiding for Tomorrow (G-WOW) training, Fisher and Janssen developed and hosted Northland College’s first-ever student-initiated climate change conference October 15-16 at Forest Lodge in Cable, Wisconsin. The conference, “Changing Climate, Changing Culture,” encouraged students to look at climate change through both…

Lake Superior and beach

Geologic Perspectives on Climate Change

…geologic setting for the refreshing artesian-well water that I sip from my water bottle. The field of geology provides a unique perspective on climate change. Rocks, sediments (i.e. really small rocks) and ice (i.e. melt-able “rocks”) tell stories about past climate conditions on earth. There have been cold times and…

Dr. Patz.

Patz to report on Paris Climate Change Conference

…Jan. 8 at 7 p.m. at the Northland College Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute. This event, cosponsored by the Chequamegon Chapter of CitizensClimate Lobby, is free and open to the public. “I am confident that we are finally grappling with the challenge of climate change in a serious way, especially…

Northland College starry night

Climate Science

…can create several feet of snowfall here, while thirty miles away it’s blue skies and fifteen degrees warmer. Understanding the influence of our location on the atmosphere will improve weather forecasts and simulated scenarios of climate change. You will have the opportunity to work one-on-one with faculty, using computer models…

Northland College alum Jenn Wood

Wood Crusades for Climate Policy

Jenn Wood '00 Focuses on Energy Conservation

…the other co-authors of the plan and associated groups to educate, engage, and bring awareness to the ways in which Vermonters need to step forward on climate initiatives.   She volunteers for The Climate Reality Project, whose chairman is former Vice President Al Gore, the Climate Reality Leadership Program, of…

Northland College student EmmaMarie Hamond

EmmaMarie Hammond’s Three Lessons for Making Change

Citizen's Climate Lobby Goes to Washington DC

…pitch her ideas to lawmakers in Washington DC this past June. She and fellow student Seth Bayliss, who is studying sustainable community development with a minor in sociology and social justice, alumnus Mike Pesko ‘73, and four other CCL representatives joined 1,300 citizens to lobby Congress for market-based solutions to…

Ethiopian girl stretches before running (Girls Gotta Run Foundation)

If You Give a Girl a Pair of Sneakers . . . .

Dr. Patricia E. Ortman '71 Creates Girls Gotta Run Foundation

Why shouldn’t a girl have a pair of sneakers? That’s the question Dr. Patricia E. Ortman ’71, a Washington DC-based retired women’s studies professor and artist, pondered in 2006 before she founded the Girls Gotta Run Foundation, the only nonprofit organization in Ethiopia using the national sport of running as…

Disappearing Earth

Caring for the Climate, a Teach-in Organized by Students for Students

April 6, 2023, 7:00 pm8:30 pm

…Northland can do, as well as for students to voice what is wanted on campus! Faculty presenters at this event will share their knowledge and expertise from their research. This event is free and open to the public. Tables at this event: Citizens Climate Lobby Northland College’s Climate Action Plan…