…to the best professionals, no matter what their area of expertise.” For nearly twenty years now, I have had the good fortune to spend a month or more of each year traveling with children and young adults in wild places. I have sat with them on Olson’s Listening Point and…
Located at the tip of Wisconsin on the shore of Lake Superior, Northland College is literally one of the coolest schools in the nation. Now Sierra magazine, a publication of the Sierra Club, has named the College in a list of “cool schools,” for its commitment to the environment and…
…dozen years on the GLIFWC Board of Commissioners and on the Voigt Intertribal Task Force. He coaches basketball, football, and baseball and founded the LCO Boys and Girls Club in 1995—something he considers one of his shining achievements. He’s watched those kids turn into police officers and professionals and continues…
…capstone level work and they did it as volunteers because they believe it’s time to take action on climate change,” she said. In addition to their own presentations, Janssen and Fisher invited four of their own role models to speak. University of Wisconsin-Extension Environmental Outreach State Specialist Cathy Techtman discussed…
…students in education-related fields. This one-day symposium focuses on the connections between literature and the natural world for children and young adults. Presentations and session topics will explore ways for educators to integrate environmental ideas through reading and language arts. “When kids read, they are in the mind of the…
…leadership. Believe me, this has been a very inspiring experience. Practically every Northland student I have met recently has really impressed me with both their competence and their attitude toward the future. A couple springs ago, a group of sociology and sustainable community development students attended the Midwest Sociology Conference…
…for the Forest Service, listened to the presentations and then said they would be taking the recommendations to the leadership of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in March. “These are real life solutions for the Forest Service and couldn’t come at a better time,” Maloney told students. Several of the recommended…
…the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) areas in the Native American student body in high schools, colleges and graduate school. “For us to start a new AISES chapter and have a student not only attend the national conference, make it through the initial screening stage for presentations, and then…
