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Foxconn: A New Chapter in the Great Lakes Water Wars

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…test came in 2010 when Waukesha applied for a straddling county diversion. Waukesha agreed to return 100% of the water, yet more than 11,000 comments streamed in, the vast majority of them opposed. In 2016, the Great Lakes governors unanimously approved Waukesha’s diversion of 8.2 million gallons per day, but…

Exploring Interactions Between Humans and Wildlife

Andrew East `10 Uses Northland Lessons for Science & Teaching

…eight hours looking for flowers and if you can’t keep up to wait in the car.” The words leave my mouth and I can hear Jim Meeker [former professor of biology] standing out in a swamp bemoaning students that couldn’t find the joy or energy to romp about all day

Tulips outside of Ponzio Campus Center

2018 Honors Day Awards Recipients

Alpha Chi National Honor Society Inductees Maxwell Beal Jason Bricco Lorrie Guski Kira Immordino Jane Kittaka Jessica Schultz Tess Stephens Camille Thelander Emerson Ziehr Achievement Awards Bethel Sophomore Award Taylor Wittman Arthur J. Ingold Jr. – Julia R. Gilman Junior Award Jenise Swartley Wallace C. Hitchcock Memorial Award Jane Dahlgren…

Lake Superior near Madeline Island

Chicago Tribune: Wisconsin City Allowed Unprecedented Access

BY MICHAEL HAWTHORNE, Chicago Tribune Governors from the eight Great Lakes states agreed Tuesday to allow a Wisconsin city to start pumping millions of gallons a day from Lake Michigan, marking the largest diversion of water from the lakes since Chicago reversed the flow of the Chicago River in 1900….

Paulette Moore with her camera

Moore Takes Standing Rock Doc on 3-City East Coast Tour

…independent community-based films. Schedule of Tour (click on links for details) Wednesday, March 8 The Lookout Washington D.C. 7 p.m. Thursday, March 9 Native American Lifelines of Baltimore Baltimore, Maryland 5:30 p.m. Friday, March 10 Burchfield Penney Art Center Buffalo, New York 7 p.m. Saturday, March 11 Burchfield Penney Art…

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…

small town

Rewriting the Small Town Narrative

…Lake Superior, the Apostle Islands, city parks, bike trails, libraries, coffee shops, bookstores, grocery stores, and more. They released the seventy-four page Assets and Amenities Comparison Report in September, and presented their findings at a one-day forum in Ashland on strategies for optimizing Ashland’s resources. Their findings included a list…

Robin Wall Kimmerer at commencement

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

Commencement 2015 BY Sara Chase, For the Ashland Daily Press “Commencement—it doesn’t sound like an ending it sounds like a beginning,” said Northland College President Dr. Michael A. Miller Saturday in his greeting at the college’s commencement for its 2014-15 graduates. The ceremony for Northland’s 112 graduates, their family and…

Solar panels at ELLC residence hall

Planning for Carbon Neutrality by 2030

…of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030. AEI launched its study in mid-December with a two-day tour of campus and meetings with community and campus groups. “Just as world leaders are meeting in Geneva to address climate change on a global scale, so too are leaders at colleges and universities across…

Student in front of computers in graphic design lab.

Graphic Design Emphasis

…he intends to take as many graphic design classes as he can. “Graphic design is used in everyday life — we see it every single day in the products that we use and the signs that we see,” Cline said. “I am an art major and business management minor —…