…grocery store (paper bags have significant negative environmental impacts too). • Make sure recyclable products end up in the recycling bin. • You can make your desires for more environmentally friendly materials known to the companies that you frequent. • Support representatives for public office who promote environmentally responsible policies….
…weather impacts climate change will have on our vineyards. Buckles: How did you get into this kind of work? Schreiber-Stainthorp: I was lucky enough to get an Environmental Defense Fund Climate Corps Fellowship as I was finishing up my master’s in sustainability management from American University in Washington DC. Prior…
Abe Lloyd’s ’02 interest in wild foods dates back to childhood campouts in a vacant lot next to his house in Washington state and his childhood fantasy of never needing to go inside. “When I was at Northland, I began to think much more deeply about the environmental and social…
Evan Coulson, Bro professor of sustainable regional development, tells a story worth remembering. He was managing the rock climbing and rappelling site at Bob’s Rock in the Chequamegon-Nicolet Forest this past summer for a group of Chicago teens. This outing was part of a collaboration between the Sigurd Olson Environmental…
…the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance, and Humanitarian Value. He is currently director of the Genocide Resource Project and is the author of six books including, Unstable Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide and Native America and the Question of Genocide. How did you get interested in genocide,…
In its early days, what was then the Sigurd Olson Institute of Environmental Studies was based in Bobb Hall. The basement, to be specific. Co-founder and Executive Director Bob Matteson spent countless hours in this space, shepherding an advisory board and collaborating with the College’s Environmental Studies Committee….
