…the natural world. This author has a colorful history not only in writing, as he was born in Austria in 1926 and escaped the Holocaust in 1938 and eventually landed in the United States and while living in Minnesota became a teacher and tribal leader. Along with publishing books, Treuer…
…(as if a college education, and lifelong love and support were not enough). But what I want to think of today, are not the gifts that the world brings to you, but the gifts you bring to the world. In Anishinaabe traditions, the direction of gift giving on a day…
Kathleen Dean Moore, a philosopher, environmental advocate, award-winning essayist and the author of books about our moral relationship to the natural world, will be the featured speaker in a…
…vendors, Thursday evening reception, and Friday lunch. Register Today: $95 About the Conference Featuring authors, illustrators, and educators, the conference will focus on literature and the natural world. Highlights include: key note presentations by author Emma Bland Smith, winner of the 2017 Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award for children’s literature,…
…me into a geographer, which is an important part of being a cartographer. You can’t make good maps unless you know something about space, place, and the natural world.” Sack recently defended his PhD dissertation in geography and works as the GIS faculty and program coordinator at Fond du Lac…
Helen Pent Jenkins ’08, associate director of philanthropy at The Nature Conservancy, is responsible for raising major gifts for conservation projects around the world. Helen currently lives in Missoula, Montana. Travis Moore `11 talked to her about her time at Northland, how she is still being a change agent after…
…also talked about some of the issues we have in our world regarding the earth and the point we are at with our environment. “We have the technological solutions, we have the science, we have everything we need to change the world except the political will to do it,” she…
