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Film class and wild rice parching

Filmmaker, Students Document Harvest

…a solution and as a new model about how we should be treating each other.” All of the footage from the sequences and likely some of the sequences themselves will be part of “From Wisconsin With Love,” which will be made next semester, Moore said. “The audience will be watching…

Forest Lodge Boathouse

Student projects save USFS $100,000, receive recognition

…provide leadership on the environmental issues of our times. Maloney said the partnership fulfills the promise to preserve the buildings as well as making the site an ecological campus. “Northland will coordinate use of this place—and it is already an ecological campus, which is the whole idea that Mary Burke…

Lakeshore

Chicago Tribune: Under Trump budget, Great Lakes projects may sink

…the National Association of Clean Air Agencies, the president proposes to slash funding for the enormously popular Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to $10 million (from $300 million) next year. The initiative has poured more than $2 billion into the Great Lakes economy and…

Forest Lodge Woods

Mamie Parker: On Fishing Not Kissing

…yet to come. And so as I have mornings where I don’t want to get up and keep moving, as I have had days when I cried because I thought about the fact that I’d lost her, I live through her dreams of continuing to support and protect environmental resources….

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…

Northland student holds biological specimen

World Solutions Via Evolutionary Biology

Jessica Mohlman Accepts Dream Job

…continue on for a doctorate in conservation and evolutionary biology. No surprise that as a graduating senior Jessica was selected for the Environmental Science and Natural Resources Faculty Award and the Indelible Mark Award, a Northland College award that recognizes students that best exemplify the spirit and values of the…

Great Lakes

Foxconn: A New Chapter in the Great Lakes Water Wars

Commentary

…display plant in Mount Pleasant. Wisconsin recruited Foxconn with $3 billion in incentives, waiving some environmental requirements to fast-track the enormous operation — the size of three Pentagons — which could employ up to 13,000 people. Tap here to read the rest of the oped from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel….

Pebble beach

Opponents file legal challenge to Racine’s bid to use water from Lake Michigan for Foxconn

Environmental groups filed a formal challenge on Friday with the Department of Natural Resources over the agency’s decision to allow the City of Racine to divert millions of gallons a day from Lake Michigan for technology giant Foxconn Technology Group and other users. The move once again thrusts southeastern Wisconsin…

Great Lakes Water Wars book by Peter Annin at Northland College

The Battles That Shaped Great Lakes Water Politics

UNIVERSITY PLACE: HOW THE CONTEMPORARY BOUNDARIES OF AN ABUNDANT RESOURCE WERE FORGED IN CONTROVERSY

…the 2006 book The Great Lakes Water Wars which, along with Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reporter Dan Egan’s 2017 book The Death And Life Of The Great Lakes, is one of the seminal texts on the lakes’ political and environmental history. The talk, recorded for Wisconsin Public Television’s University Place, came as…

Northland Collge graduate Anthony Procik

Social Change and Nonprofit Work

Profile: Anthony Procik Graduation: 2015 Major: mathematical science Minors: physics and environmental law and policy Hometown: Algonquin, Illinois For Anthony Procik, every class and experience at Northland College was literally life changing. During his time at Northland, Procik’s dreams about his future fluctuated with each new interest he uncovered. But…