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Graduates skating to commencement

Princeton Review Names Northland Top Green College


…just meeting sustainability standards, it’s setting them,” reported The Princeton Review. They noted the following: • Northland recently became a member of the Founding Circle for the Billion Dollar Green Challenge, which encourages the college and university community to invest a total of $1 billion in self-managed revolving funds that…

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

…Area, Gabriela Boscio Santos ’09, is the climate and sustainability expert with a keen interest in social and environmental justice, racial and gender equality, resilience, sustainable food systems, and urban agriculture. Tiffany Kersten ’10, pictured above, first became hooked on birds at age twelve, after witnessing a flock of thousands…

Northland College sign

Trettin Elected Co-chair of the CIC Presidential Spouses and Partners Task Force

…College, supported the College advancement office, encouraged the campus sustainability effort, planned programs for spouses and partners of the Board of Trustees, and represented the College at functions for alumni and friends. Trettin is also an active member of the Ashland area community, serving on the Chequamegon Bay Area Community…

Group shot with Northland College President Michael Miller signing document alongside U.S. Forest Service

Historic Signing

…unique property and to cultivate it as a premier center for environmental leadership, sustainability and conservation education. Through the lease, Northland College will coordinate the operations of Forest Lodge as an environmental education and conference center. Activities will include outdoor experiential programs, ecological research, local and national conferences, workshops, seminars…

kids make soda bottle structure

A Highway, or Muddy Path, Shall Be There!

…years of volunteer service with the Peace Corps. As Peace Corps Volunteers we never forgot our environmental emphasis, and always sought to enable those we served to address the challenges of the future—empower our community to pave their own highway toward sustainability. As I look at my fellow alumni around…

Q & A With Robin Wall Kimmerer

…of knowing. Indigenous studies was not an option back then—and now I love to see students doing both. This kind of integrative thinking is what we need if we are to evolve as a society toward sustainability. Stephanie: Thank you. Robin: Thanks Stephanie. I’m really looking forward to seeing you…

Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Gifts You Bring the World

…So together we can be proud of this wonderful institution, dedicated to liberal arts in service to sustainability, educating for the world we need and more importantly for the needs of the world. The only thing I can remember about my own college graduation is that it seemed to go…

From Treaty Rights to Oyster Flights

…a time when people in the industry didn’t understand why sustainability mattered.” She spent the next fifteen years of her life developing and implementing sustainable seafood production practices nationwide. At Northland, Smith held a summer internship at Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission working on mercury and fish consumption…

Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, an example of sustainable design by Northland College alum and trustee.

Elevating Sustainable Design

Ben Shepherd ’00 taking design to new levels

Ben Shepherd ’00 is taking design to new levels: integrating sustainability, functionality, beauty, and community planning. He’s been working in the green building and sustainable design field since his Northland graduation, first at the non-profit, research think tank, Rocky Mountain Institute, then overseas to gain an international green perspective. For…

Robin Wall Kimmerer at commencement

“We can’t just change light bulbs, we have to change hearts”

…one of us, showered with daily gifts of the earth,” she said, pointing out that both commencement speakers were Native American women scientists. “Together we can be proud of this wonderful institution dedicated to liberal arts in service and sustainability, educating for the world we need and most importantly for…