…this experience. It might make people see the world a different way so they might take care of the world better.” And another wrote: “It’s changed me by teaching me to go outside. There’s the Bear Trail right by my house that I want to hike on now.” “This is…
…world, and the moral clarity of philosophy to explore our place on the planet and our responsibilities for its thriving,” said President Michael A. Miller. Moore has written nine books and in 2000 was awarded the Northland College Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award for Holdfast: A Home in the Natural…
…outdoor education was before Northland, she said. She traveled around the world for twelve years but kept returning to the Pacific Northwest. And in 2014, she decided to settle down and pursue an MBA in sustainable business at Presidio Graduate School in Seattle. “When I graduated, getting into solar energy…
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Madeline Jarvis ’13 manages the Marion Public Library’s adult and outreach services as part of their mission to be the friendliest library in the world. When she’s not working she’s volunteering, gardening, or canning endless salsa. In the remaining slivers of time, she wedding plans. career: Adult and Outreach services…
…for market, the dams were removed and water and logs rushed downstream to mills. “That tears all the natural fish habitat and straightens out the stream,” Hudson said. “We are still living with that today.” Studies done by the U.S. Geological Survey show that the key to cutting runoff is…
…were really written by the people to whom they are attributed (in these cases, the apostle Paul). Two recent controversies caught my attention and demonstrated how these continue to be issues significant for today—the controversy over fraudulent manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls featured in the Museum of the Bible…
Northland College is ranked in the top tier of the U.S. News & World Report’s 2015 ranking of best national liberal arts colleges, which was released today. National liberal arts colleges are those that emphasize undergraduate education and award at least half their degrees in the arts and sciences. U.S….
…is anything in nature that will withstand the passing of time, this inland ocean would seem a likely candidate. Peter Annin knows better. The author of The Great Lakes Water Wars, which examines the fight to protect the lakes from an encroaching and increasingly water-starved world, has stood in the…
…I have actually started playing bassoon again, taking private lessons and finding opportunities to play in public. Even my freshman Intro to Biology class was a horizon-expanding experience for me. Being Northland, the class focused on the big environmental problems of the world, and as I took in all of…
