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Stay Connected As a Northland College alumni you’re part of a big family. And we want to know what you're up to.

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Alumni Association Board of Directors: Nancy Franz ‘81 Gail Fridlund ‘15 Maryjo Gingras ‘00 Stu Goldman ‘69 Blake Gross ‘96 Richard Harguindeguy ‘78 Stuart Barnes Jamieson ‘81 Madeline Jarvis ‘13 Katherine Jenkins ‘96 Kaydee Johnson ‘16 Jaime Moquin ‘98 Jim Quinn ‘73 Kaeleen Ringberg ‘12 Stuart Schmidt ‘17 David Schneider ‘70 Leanne Wilke Shamszad ‘04 Paul Trana ‘93 Katy Zart ‘14 KRISTY LIPHART Executive Director of Institutional Advancement kliphart@northland.edu 715-682-1496 JACKIE MOORE Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving alumni@northland.edu 715-682-1811 JULIE BUCKLES Director of Communications jbuckles@northland.edu 715-682-1664

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It is no accident that I am at Northland. It really is the culmination of a life of dreaming about what I wanted to do next. And, it was an education and career that literally has taken me around the world to live and work—and now, back within an hour of where I began. Attending college was not a realistic goal for many of my high school classmates, but I was a dreamer. There really were no boundaries as to what I could do or where I could go.

To be sure, there were some hiccups along the way. I was ill-prepared to go to college and I often struggled. However, there always seemed to be mentors and professors who helped me through those academic challenges, offering real help and encouragement.

Today, I have returned to my roots and realize that student aspirations haven’t changed that much. For many, a good college education seems difficult to attain and afford. A good job to follow comes with no guarantee. As I transitioned out of a career in business, I realized that I wanted to find “dreamers” and I wanted to be part of a college that offered an education that included a respect and love for the beautiful environment along the shores of Lake Superior. And, yes, four years later, there would be a job and a fulfilling career. That place is Northland.

Small colleges—like Northland—hold a special place in higher education. Some of them are extremely selective and others less so, but they all realize that every student has great potential and want to help him/her realize it. Whether you are a parent, alumnus, prospective student, or a donor reading this, I hope you will come to visit me at Northland. Knock on my door and simply introduce yourself as a “dreamer.” You will be welcomed.

My best wishes,

Marvin J. Suomi 14th President of Northland College The Northland College Board of Trustees has named Marvin J. Suomi, an international business leader, philanthropist, as its fourteenth president. He took office July 1 and will be inaugurated October 20.

“Marvin is one of those rare individuals whose achievements grant him access to most any endeavor anywhere in the world,” said Trustee Chad Dayton, who led the presidential search committee. “We are fortunate that he will apply his skills and energy to shaping the next step in Northland College’s growth.”

Suomi, who was born in Wakefield, Michigan, located fifty miles east of campus, led Kajima International for thirty-seven years of extraordinary growth. As president, CEO, and chairman of Kajima, he oversaw the operations of one of the largest real estate and construction companies in the world, developing projects as diverse as a largescale campus development at Central Florida

University to a high-tech research park in Israel. One of Suomi’s projects, AT&T Park in San Francisco, was the first major league baseball park to become LEED Gold certified.

Throughout his career, Suomi has committed his energies to higher education. He has served on the boards of more than a dozen educational institutions—from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, California. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in East Asian studies from the University of Michigan and Princeton University.

“I have real optimism about the future of Northland College and am determined to ensure its viability as a leader on an international stage,” Suomi said. “Northland College has shaped a curriculum and a culture sought after by a new generation of scholars and entrepreneurs.”

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BRIEFS HOT TOPICS Focusing on the Environment, as a Discipline and as an Attraction The Chronicle of Higher Ed September 23, 2018 Reporter Kelly Field interviewed Matt Cooper, assistant professor of biology and natural resources, and President Marvin Suomi for this special report entitled, Location, Location, Location: The Geographic Diversity Issue. It examines how a college’s location affects its mission, its ability to recruit students and faculty members, and its campus culture. ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Terrific Book on Great Lakes Water Gets Timely, Thorough Update MinnPost September 25, 2018 Environmental reporter Ron Meador reviews Peter Annin’s second edition of The Great Lakes Water Wars. Annin is the director of the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation. ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Wisconsin Lets Village Go to Town on Great Lakes Water Chicago Tribune September 18, 2018 Michael Hawthorne reports on a little-known-diversion uncovered

by Burke Center Director Peter Annin during his research for the second edition of The Great Lakes Water Wars. ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Northern Wisconsin Project Seeks to Slow the Flow of Stormwater Wisconsin Public Radio August 29, 2018 Burke Center partners with local, state, and federal partners to reduce flood peaks, erosion in northern Wisconsin. ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Foxconn: A New Chapter in the Great Lakes Water Wars Milwaukee Journal Sentinel April 12, 2018 Burke Center Director Peter Annin provides commentary on the new chapter of the Great Lakes diversion controversy.

Why Donald Trump (Wrongly) Thinks Chicago Resembles a War-Torn Country Washington Post March 16, 2018 Professor Brian Tochterman writes about the powerful politics of stoking fears about urban violence. ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Good Stewardship is Key to Removing Wolf from Endangered List Wisconsin State Journal January 22 Adrian Wydeven, Northland College Timber Wolf Advisory Council, wrote an op-ed arguing that Senate Bill 602, and Assembly Bill 712, would be a major setback in responsible wildlife conservation and proper management of the state wolf population. ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Scientists Seek to Solve Marten Mystery on the Apostle Islands Wisconsin Public Radio October 26, 2017 Professor Erik Olson and his students have been maintaining camera traps and collecting scat in the park to see how far the martens’ reach extends. So far, they’ve found martens on at least seven of the twenty-one islands within the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Tough Love: Advice for Taking a Really, Really Long Hike with Your Significant Other Outside Online September 14, 2017 As a guest columnist, Director of Communications Julie Buckles writes about paddling 1,700 miles with her husband and provides lessons learned for future couples planning their own expeditions.

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IS MOVING TO SPRING  Alumni Association Recognizes Hofman and Ogle The Northland College Alumni Association honored Tam Hofman ‘80 and Derek Ogle ’89 at the alumni dinner during its annual Fall Festival September 28-29.

Hofman is a park ranger with the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, where she has been recognized for her interpretive work, receiving the National Park Service Freeman Tilden Award, the highest honor presented to an individual park interpreter. She has also served the Chequamegon Bay region as an EMT for over thirty years.

Hofman graduated from Northland College with degrees in outdoor education in 1980 and in elementary education in 1984. Before joining the park service, she worked for the Ashland and South Shore school districts as a special education teacher and received her master’s degree in special education from UW-Superior in 2004.

Derek Ogle, or just Ogle as he’s known on campus, is a professor of mathematics and natural resources at Northland College. He graduated magna cum laude in 1989 with a degree in environmental studies and returned to join the faculty in 1996 after earning a PhD in fisheries from the University of Minnesota.

He has actively served Northland and the American Fisheries Society (AFS) and is an AFS-certified Fisheries Professional.

Professor Ogle continues to groom future alumni with handson classes in the rivers and streams of the north woods.

“Tam and Derek are passionate people with playful hearts and a deep love for the outdoors who recognize the value of a small liberal arts education in this beautiful place,” said Jackie Moore, a 2005 graduate and the director of alumni relations and annual giving. “They enhance our community with their energy and skill, and deserved a night in the limelight.”

Find more highlights of Fall Festival '18 on:

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IN THIS SECTION: FOOD

In the following pages, you’ll read about College initiatives, student leadership, alumni awesomeness, and donor dollars that make sustainability sing on campus and around the world.

Going all in on local foods, composting campus and community waste, and helping to keep Lake Superior and all freshwater clean, Northland College’s sustainability initiatives are as ambitious as they are vast.

Forty-seven years ago, Northland College established an environmental studies program—one of the first of its kind in the country. Today, environmentalism remains at the core of the College’s mission, though it continues to shift and adapt to better prepare students for an increasingly complex world.

In the last ten years, Northland has expanded what it means to be environmental, looking at the full spectrum of sustainability: food, waste, energy, water, economic development, diversity, stewardship, and social justice.

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Dave Ullman Assistant Professor of Geoscience dullman@northland.edu

Matt Hudson Burke Center Director of Research Programs mhudson@northland.edu

Julie Buckles Director of Communications jbuckles@northland.edu

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First Bee Campus in Wisconsin Northland College has become the first educational institution in Wisconsin to be certified as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, designed to marshal the strengths of educational campuses for the benefit of pollinators.

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Northland College graduate Danny Simpson '18, who now works for the Hulings Rice Food Center, prepared and submitted the application. One thing he wants to clarify: becoming a bee campus does not mean beekeeping.

“Being a bee campus neither encourages or discourages campus beekeeping,” Simpson said.

“This is strictly to support and promote native bees and pollinators.”

Working with other students, Simpson planted three pollinator gardens on campus last year.

Over the next year, he and a committee of staff, faculty, and students will be creating an outreach plan to raise awareness about the plight of pollinators, integrating pollinator curriculum into a few campus courses, and developing more habitat for pollinators.

Fenenga Fuel Returns Northland College announced a new partnership with Kickapoo Coffee Roasters to continue the Fenenga Fuel blend. Previous partner, Big Water Coffee in Bayfield, closed down last winter. Kickapoo Coffee, headquartered in Viroqua, Wisconsin, stepped in this past summer, setting up a satellite coffee shop in Bayfield. They reached out and asked Northland to continue selling and serving Fenenga Fuel.

“And a cheer went up around campus,” joked Amanda Tutor, director of dining services.

Kickapoo Coffee is organic, sustainable, and has a strong sense of social justice, paying its coffee farmers well above the fair trade minimum through its “raise the bar” initiative.

In 2015, Kickapoo Coffee became one of the first solar-powered coffee roasters in the world. With the exception of its vintage gas-powered roaster and winter heating, its entire roastery, offices, and production floor are powered by an eighty-panel, twenty-five-Kilowatt solar array.

Fenenga Fuel will be available to students and online to the general public in time for the holidays. northland.edu/fenengafuel

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Located at the tip of Wisconsin on the shore of Lake Superior, Northland College is literally one of the coolest schools in the nation.

Now Sierra magazine, a publication of the Sierra Club, has named the College in a list of “cool schools,” for its commitment to the environment and sustainability initiatives.

Sierra annually evaluates schools on a broad range of sustainability metrics including academic programming, transportation, waste disposal, energy, food, and campus innovation.

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“We’re proud and pleased to have our efforts recognized—and we know that there’s a whole lot more that we can do, and look forward to doing,” said Scott Grinnell, director of sustainability initiatives.

Partnership For Hazelnut Production

Northland College has joined a publicprivate partnership designed to accelerate the development of hazelnuts as an agricultural product found in wild form throughout the region.

The College, American Hazelnut Company, Bayfield Foods Cooperative, the UWExtension Service, and the University of Wisconsin’s Biological Systems Engineering department, together are undertaking a two-year program to develop cost-efficient systems for the processing of hazelnuts and heart-healthy products made from them.

Jason Fischbach, a woody food crop specialist for the UW-Extension Service, is coordinating the development work in the Larson Food Lab of the Hulings Rice Food Center, working with processing

devices developed by the UW Biological Systems Engineering faculty and staff at UW-Madison.

Fischbach experimented with the first batch of hazelnuts at the Food Center.

The College is hulling, shelling, and cleaning the hazelnuts. The American Hazelnut Company, located in Gays Mills, Wisconsin, will do the final processing, transforming hazelnuts into gluten-free nuts, oil, and flour.

Hybrid hazelnuts, developed from the sturdy rootstock of bushes that have thrived in the Upper Midwest for generations, have been winning increasing favor among farmers and orchardists for their potential to become an important new agricultural product.

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Todd Rothe ’10 Says

Farmers Need a Plan Interview by Julie Buckles Buckles: How have attitudes around food changed in the last two decades?

Rothe: I remember sitting at the old Ashland farmers market back in 1999 and having to explain to people what the term “organic” meant. Now, you can find local and organic products everywhere.

Ten years ago the main concern was whether there were enough producers to feed our communities. There has been progress made to meet that challenge. Now the challenge is on the consumers to make very conscious choices to ensure they are actually supporting small diversified farms, ideally local at best, and not corporate conglomerates—organic or otherwise.

How realistic is it for Northland College to reach the goal of eighty percent for local foods?

I believe we were somewhere around sixtyfive percent at the peak of last fall, so yes, I think it is possible. To sustain that kind of percentage through all nine months of the school year begs some serious questions.

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For one, there is a limited supply of poultry products and some dairy products. Do we go outside of our one-hundred-mile radius to ensure we are filling the gaps in supply? Do we redefine how far away something can be and still be considered local? On the other hand, are there products that we remove from food service that are not, and will never be, local? Bananas, for instance, or soft drinks? We have two years left and a bunch of figuring out to do. It is a lofty goal to say the least, but the fact that we have come this close puts Northland College in the lead nationwide.

How much in the lead?

Top ten, for sure. When we submitted our numbers for the STARS report, they asked us for further verification because they considered forty-six percent local foods a “data outlier.” It raised a red flag. We had to send them copies of invoices to prove we were for real.

OCCUPATION: Food Systems Manager

How do you manage and prioritize the gardens, the farmers, the high tunnel, food processing, the entrepreneurs using the kitchen, the development of an academic program, and the compost? The compost alone is a full-time puzzle.

Lists. I love lists and live by them. If you visit my office there are sticky notes and clip boards all over the place. Farming is much the same way. Nothing is ever very consistent.

So I need a master list to fall back on when I have been taken off-task.

I also have a great team of people that make me look good.

You also operate your own farm. What’s your best advice to budding farmers.

Write a business plan. I think the most common misconception about farming is that a person only needs to know how to grow plants and raise animals successfully. The more difficult, and not so romantic task is tracking your numbers—knowing where you are gaining and losing financially. A business plan forces you to map everything out, from identifying market potential, to planning crops, to profit margins. It serves as the map for your journey to build a new business enterprise.

I wrote a business plan for my farm, River Road Farm, in 2011 after taking a ninemonth course in farm business called, Farm Beginnings. I figured out, line item by line item, what the startup costs would be and how much gross revenue was needed to achieve a modest profit.

How did that go?

Fast forward six years and the staple crop at River Road Farm is salad mix, which we grow seven months of the year. The financial statements within the business plan, the projected profit and loss statement, allowed us to reflect and make adjustments. We now sell our products to the Lake Superior CSA, Chequamegon Food Co-op, Northland College, and distribute to restaurants through the Bayfield Foods Producers Cooperative.

The farm has achieved a 400 percent increase in gross revenue from year one to year five, so that feels pretty good. It’s not all puppies and sunshine though, there have been some wrenches thrown in our gears too, along with some major setbacks, but that’s farmin’.

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Food with Intention Evan Flom ‘14 was hired in December to manage the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) for the Bayfield Foods Producers, a cooperative of twenty-two different producers. He manages logistics, marketing, and bookkeeping. “With so many producers, there’s a lot of moving parts,” he said.

Food Is Everything

Flom studied sustainable community development and sociology and social justice. He interned with Chris Duke ‘99 at Great Oak Farm, worked for two summers at Hermit Creek Farm, both south of Ashland, and worked at a food shelf in Minneapolis after graduation, where he focused on food access and social justice around food.

Danny Simpson ’18 worked on his aunt’s organic farm for six years before coming to Northland College, where he has played a major role in the food scene on campus—from managing the gardens to leading food and sustainability initiatives to catering art shows and parties.

Flom was interested in the Bayfield Foods Producers as a way to bolster the local food economy by providing a link from the farmers to the consumers in an efficient way.

In April, he was awarded the Student Affairs Division Outstanding Student Leadership Award for Sustainability recognizing exceptional dedication to improving the environmental, economic, and social well-being of the Northland College campus and community, the Chequamegon Bay area, and the world beyond.

The region recently voted in a local chapter of the Farmer’s Union.

Flom will be representing the chapter in a leadership program, where he will receive training and instruction, attend the national convention, and possibly fly to Washington DC for a lobbying day.

Bayfield Foods Producers delivers boxes of vegetables, meats, cheeses, flowers, and fruit to 260 subscribers from the Twin Ports region in Minnesota to Ironwood, Michigan, and the Chequamegon Bay region in between.

“I did not seek out food, farming, and food justice—but it has come together,” he said.

For him, food is everything.

“In my family, food is a really big deal.

All of my fondest memories involve food and gathering with people I love,” he said. “And in this politically polarized world, food retains a universal power that can, at least for a time, transcend perceived divisions and bring people together.”

He’s currently working with the Hulings Rice Food Center, managing the day-today operation of the gardens and the Larson Food Lab. He was recently elected to the new Ashland/Bayfield County chapter of the Farmer’s Union alongside fellow alums Todd Rothe ’10 and Evan Flom ‘14.

He has been hired by UW-Extension to trial five varieties of broccoli, green beans, carrots, and potatoes.

The position is funded by a USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education grant and covers two research seasons.

“There is also a profound joy that comes from being a part of the process that feeds another,” he said. “From nurturing plants and animals, to presenting the fruits or vegetables of your labor to an appreciative eater at the market, to thoughtfully preparing a meal with intention and care, all of these experiences nourish our bodies, minds, and souls.”

Follow Simpson and his food adventures on Instagram @grassfedsass.

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A Legacy of Cooperation

Meagan (Wilson) Van Beest ’97 grew up in the apple capitol of New York state, near orchards and dairy farms. As a child and a teen, she bagged food alongside her parents at their local food cooperative and spent time with her grandfather who was the president of his dairy cooperative.

Van Beest chose Northland College sight unseen because she received a postcard in the mail with a red canoe.

The first thing she did when she arrived was to join the Chequamegon Food Co-op, located in downtown Ashland.

She majored in English

literature and unofficially minored in small business management.

She’s watched as the language of local foods moved into the region in the early 2000s and hit its stride in 2012, the same time she accepted a position at the coop, managing the marketing and public relations.

The food co-op signed the Superior Compact that year, committing to purchase twenty percent local food by 2020. As of right now, they are at fourteen percent and working to make the goal.

In 2017, Van Beest was promoted to a three-person

management team.

For her latest partnership with Northland, Van Beest sends the co-op’s cardboard, paper, food waste, and biodegradeable dinner wares to the College to be turned into compost that will be sold to the farmers to grow more local food.

“When I started at Northland College, composting was just taking off and the community gardens were still in the baby stage of things,” she said. “I would say that things were just gaining momentum as I graduated and Northland has certainly stepped it up since then.”

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Wild Foods as a Sustainable Solution to Big Ag Abe Lloyd’s ’02 interest in wild foods dates back to childhood camp outs 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 impacts of industrial food production, and came to see wild foods as a sustainable alternative to big agriculture,” he said.

Lloyd names people who influenced his wild food passion.

The first: Jim Meeker, a professor of natural resources, now deceased. “I took every class Jim had to offer and admired his simple cabin life out of town, his deep knowledge of plants, and his sugar maple sap production,” Lloyd said.

The second: Sam Thayer, expert on wild edibles and author of multiple books on the subject. “I met Sam while playing ultimate frisbee on the mall,” Lloyd said. “Sam also lived in a cabin and was (and still is) the most knowledgeable forager I had ever met.”

Lloyd went on to study Native American food systems in graduate school. When he finished his master’s degree in 2011, he moved back to his home town of Bellingham, Washington, and started Salal, the Cascadian Food Institute, where he promotes Indigenous foods through talks and workshops, as well as a variety of research and writing services for Native American tribes and affiliated organizations.

He also teaches Wild Foods and classes related to natural history, botany, and biodiversity at Western Washington University, and ethnobotany at a local community college.

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Pushing Sustainability at Whole Foods Market Matthew Toavs ’98 has played many roles at Whole Foods Market since he got his first position in 2001 as a bulk buyer for the Lake Calhoun store in Minneapolis.

At Northland College he studied outdoor education-natural history with minors in earth science and environmental education and worked for two summers on Lee and Judy Stadnyk’s organic dairy and vegetable farm, south of Ashland.

“That experience and hours discussing ideas with Lee got me hooked on farming,” he said.

He went on to earn a master of sustainable agriculture degree at the University of London, then applied to Whole Foods to learn the business side.

Toavs was quickly promoted from bulk buyer to grocery buyer then store accountant. When the regional president put out a call to form a regional environmental committee, Toavs jumped at the chance.

Elected co-leader, the committee began promoting sustainable practices like encouraging reusable bags by paying customers tencents for each bag they brought in, creating standardized recycling signs, and training programs for team members.

In 2005, he was promoted to regional financial analyst at the regional office in Chicago and his side role as environmental committee co-leader evolved into what became called the regional Green Mission specialist.

In this role, he promoted company-wide initiatives: finding opportunities to donate and compost food waste, offsetting onehundred-percent of electricity consumption through the purchase of renewable energy credits, standardizing the bag refunds, and banning single-use plastic bags from all of its stores.

In 2011, he was promoted to team leader for enterprise data modeling at Whole Foods headquarters in Austin, Texas, and continues to work with the Green Mission team.

“While this work is a far cry from the outdoor adventuring and natural history interpretation I focused on at Northland, it has been very satisfying to see my ideas and love for Earth translated into some significant, positive, real world impacts,” he said.

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Connecting Through Food Amanda Tutor ‘01, director of Chartwells, the dining service provider at Northland College, never intended on making food her career, but then her first student job at Northland was working in the food service office. She liked it so much, she worked there all four years and then stayed.

“I enjoy pleasing people and food does that in many ways,” she said. “I find joy in every meal that we serve and every event that we host, watching people smile and connect.”

Tutor has watched the food culture on campus change a few times over from the small cafeteria that existed when she first came to Northland to the beautiful big dining area with local produce, meat, vegan and vegetarian options, and cookedon-the-spot meals.

“In my college years you had like four options, salad bar, deli, and a hot entrée like meat lasagna or cheese lasagna,” she said. “I think now we care so much more about who our farmers are and where our food is coming from.”

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We Need to Rethink Plastic Interview by Julie Buckles Buckles: Global use of plastic has increased twenty-fold over the past fifty years and is expected to double again in the next twenty years. Research shows there will be more plastic than fish by weight in the world’s oceans by 2050. Ugh. Robertson: The good news is the broader public awareness of these issues is rapidly increasing, which is exactly what is needed for the passage of new legislation to minimize the use of single-use, nonbiodegradable materials. Additionally, as consumers become more aware of these issues, companies will provide more goods that are more environmentally friendly. We are seeing this with simple items such as straws, cup lids, etc. It’s starting small, but it is starting quickly, so I am confident we will see improvements in our country and other advanced nations in the near future.

My bigger concern rests with developing nations. Because plastics have become so cheap, they have found their way into uses around the world. However, many developing nations lack a waste management system and will literally dump their trash into waterways. This is actually where most ocean plastic pollution is coming from and is a harder problem to solve.

On a global basis, only ten-to-fourteen percent of plastic is recycled. The reuse rate is terrible compared to other materials. You and students have been working for the last eight years on the synthesis and chemical recycling of plastics. Is that the solution or one possible solution?

not be the sole solution to all of the issues surrounding plastics. But progress in these areas can certainly help to improve the situation and that’s what we are trying to do.

How so?

Much of what my students and I do is develop methods for making new types of materials that we prepare using catalysts developed by other research groups. Most of the methods that we use are not likely to be technologically feasible due to the cost of the catalysts we use, but you never know what you might stumble on when working in research and development. That’s one aspect that makes the work so much fun. We have some exciting new reactions that we’re currently working on and hope to publish in the coming months. Stay tuned.

What are three things you believe we as a society could be doing to curb our reliance on plastics?

There is a lot that we can do. Throughout your day, think about where you can avoid using plastics. 1. Bring reusable bags to the grocery store (paper bags have significant negative environmental impacts too). 2. Make sure recyclable products end up in the recycling bin. 3. You can make your desires for more environmentally friendly materials known to the companies that you frequent.

4. Support representatives for public office who promote environmentally responsible policies.

We tend to think of plastics as a single material, when in fact there are thousands of different kinds of plastics that are used in many different applications. So the development of a new biodegradable material or a new chemical recycling process will

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$364,361: Amount of money the National Science Foundation awarded Northland College for Nick Robertson’s studentintensive research on the synthesis and chemical recycling of plastics.

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In a Bold Step Forward Students Purchase Solar Shares

Xcel Energy is expanding solar options in Wisconsin through their Solar Connect Community project. They already have more than forty community solar gardens nationwide, making Xcel’s community solar garden program the largest in the nation.

The company has built or is building three “solar gardens” in Eau Claire, La Crosse, and now Ashland. The three solar gardens are part of a pilot project that was approved by the Wisconsin Public Service Commission in 2016.

Xcel presented on the Ashland proposal last year as a way to gage interest. The Northland College Student Association (NCSA) loved the idea so much, they voted to purchase one hundred, 200W solar shares

or 20kW of power. The energy harnessed by NCSA’s 20kW will be used to power the Larson-Juhl Center for Science and the Environment and the greenhouse.

The price: $32,000, paid for by the Renewable Energy Fund (REFund), a studentadministered grant program that has funded a long list of projects designed to enhance sustainability and increase energy efficiency on campus.

Northland College students contribute to the fund through student fees.

“REFund continues to allow students to invest our money where we determine it will have the greatest positive impact in our community and in society as a whole,” said Jenise Swartley, NCSA president.

The solar garden is scheduled to be built in the fall 2019 on Xcel-owned land just off Farm Road in Ashland. Until then, NCSA owns shares in the Eau Claire Community Solar Garden that will be transferred to the Ashland Solar Garden once it is complete.

The solar shares will save the college $53,000-$67,000 in electricity bills over the course of twenty-five years.

“NCSA is moving the College closer to its goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2030,” said Scott Grinnell, director of sustainability initiatives.

“Achieving carbon neutrality will require significant investments in renewable energy, and I think it is entirely fitting that our students have taken a bold lead toward making that happen."

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25x25 The Center for Rural Communities worked with the City of Ashland to assess its energy usage and update the City’s plan to use twentyfive percent renewable and clean energy by 2025. Three students—Olivia Anderson ‘18, Evan Vollmer ‘18 and Laura Loucks ‘18—worked alongside faculty in creating the report.

They conclude Ashland can achieve its goal of 25 x 25 by implementing efficiencies and installing or purchasing subscriptions to 1,140 kilowatts of solar energy, costing the city approximately $1.8 to $2.9 million, depending on whether they subscribe or install their own panels.

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The Eau Claire solar garden. Photo by PJ Nelson

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Laura Loucks ’18 who graduated with a degree in sustainable community development, worked as a researcher at the Center for Rural Communities and was the first paid sustainability intern for the City of Ashland this past summer. She recently took a position as a system design analyst at Eagle Point Solar in Dubuque, Iowa.

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GOING SOLAR

After college, Audra (Jung) Willing ‘05 moved to Seattle to work for the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) as a wilderness field instructor and later as a program supervisor for the mountaineering program.

Without Northland, she says she would have likely lived a different life. “I didn’t even know what 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 was the perfect way to use my skills in leadership, communication, and no fear of heights—I get on roofs almost every day—to help people reach ambitious goals in a new way, by making the choice to go solar,” she said.

Willing works as a solar design consultant—taking customers from concept to installation to inspection to turning on their sun-powered lights.

“At Northland, I gained the confidence to take on mastering new ambitious topics from

scratch, and this is exactly what I have done within the solar industry,” she said. “I absolutely love working in solar for its direct contribution to mitigating climate change and the cool innovative people I work with every day.”

As a “side hustle,” supported by her employer, A&R Solar, she teaches organizational leadership at Presidio Graduate School.

“In many ways, the culture at Presidio is similar to Northland, full of fun folks who are committed to creating a more just and healthy world,” she said.

Willing helps students

develop their leadership and communication skills as well as navigate organizational change effectively through their capstone projects.

“Northland was the first place I experienced how important it is to cultivate community and act as a global citizen,” she said.

“The way I learned to think at Northland taught me to look for win/win solutions to make the world a better place and to avoid us versus them thinking and this is what has allowed me to find creative solutions and job opportunities anywhere I can dream up.”

Wood Crusades for Climate Policy As an environmental and social justice solutions strategist in Vermont, Jenn Wood ’00 is focused on energy conservation and supporting low-income communities that will be hardest hit by the impacts of climate change.

Her consulting practice focuses on realistic, yet timely solutions for individuals, companies, communities, or organizations that can be easily implemented and successful.

“Every little personal choice we make does matter whether it is changing a lightbulb, eating more plant-based foods, or refusing to support a business whose values are not in alignment with yours,” she said.

At Northland, she crafted her own major, sustainability and education, was involved in the Sunshine Bike Shoppe, the McLean Environmental Living and Learning Center, renewable energy, the building of a straw bale house, and later lived in a sustainable community in Scotland.

She completed a master’s degree at Tufts University in Boston in 2007 and moved to the aptly-named “beauty spot of Vermont,” Grand Island on Lake Champlain.

For years, she ran the weatherization program for a local community action agency.

“I served and still do as not only a staunch crusader for climate policy and action but also ensuring that solutions are crafted in a way that do not negatively impact the most vulnerable populations,” she said.

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As a result, she was one of the co-authors of the ESSEX Plan—a Vermontspecific policy guide to put a price on pollution in a way that is not regressive.

Throughout the year and especially while the legislature is in session, she works with the other co-authors of the plan and associated groups to educate, engage, and bring awareness to the ways in which Vermonters need to step forward on climate initiatives.

She volunteers for The Climate Reality Project, whose chairman is former Vice President Al Gore, the Climate Reality Leadership Program, of which she mentors climate leaders (116 as of August), and is the founding chair of the Vermont Chapter of Climate Reality.

In 2016, Wood sat on a panel with Mr. Gore to talk about how and why she takes such fervent action on climate issues. “It was an unexpected chance to inspire others to do the same.”

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Sit Simply, Get a New Perspective

Mentoring Urban Youth for Conservation Leadership She was afraid of heights.

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 ChequamegonNicolet Forest this past summer for a group of Chicago teens. This outing was part of a collaboration between the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute and The Center for Conservation Leadership, a nonprofit in Chicago with a mission to get teens of all backgrounds engaged in the outdoors and conservation.

“I invited her to spend some time at the top of the cliff with me,” Coulson said.

She agreed. Coulson anchored her in and she sat several feet from the edge as her peers received their briefing, went through all of their safety checks, and then, one-by-one, descended.

“As I anticipated from years of gently working with people through this very moment," Coulson explained. "She slowly edged herself closer and closer to the edge of the cliff."

For ten days, students hiked, camped, volunteered, climbed, and connected to the region and one another.

Eventually, she was at the very end of her personal anchor line with her feet dangling over the edge of the cliff—success!

Part way through the program, a teen girl hiked to the top of Bob's Rock with her group of peers for their turn at the rappelling station but then decided last minute not to descend.

Coulson expected the teen would eventually take her turn. She didn’t.

Instead, she continued to watch, her legs continuing to dangle.

Then, after nearly two hours of her sitting at the edge, she turned to Coulson, with red eyes and tears streaming down her cheeks. “This was not the face I was expecting to see and I worried that she had been gripped with fear the entire time,” Coulson said.

What she said next surprised Coulson.

“I didn’t know there could be this many trees in the whole, entire world,” she said.

Coulson and the girl turned their eyes back to the line of exposed ridges along the sprawling view scape of the Penokee Mountains.

“I want to learn even more and work even harder to help people protect them,” she concluded.

She never did rappel.

“I don’t think she needed to that afternoon,” Coulson said. “There’s

plenty of time for challenges.

She reminded me, however, that maybe there can never be enough moments in our lives to simply sit and enjoy a new and unexpected perspective.”

Second Life of a White Pine YOUR S UP PO RT M AD E TH I S

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Maxwell Property Provides Off-Campus Learning Opportunities

By Patrick Shea ‘19 On a parcel of land known as the Maxwell property, a dozen Northland students follow Jon Martin, associate professor of forestry, down a narrow footpath near the winding banks of the White River.

These students are in the Sustainable Forest Management May Term course, and are using the Maxwell property, located ten miles south of campus, as a hands-on field laboratory. These 140 acres were donated to Northland College in 1983 by the family of Mabel Cora Maxwell, to commemorate her life and her generosity towards the Northland community.

As Martin and students travel deeper into the forest, young stands of alder and aspen give way to a thick understory of balsam fir in the shade of a mature pinedominated canopy, and their attention is drawn upward to a massive

white pine, covered in lichen and towering over the rolling river.

Martin has spent the past three years conducting canopy research in the top of this tree. With the use of motion sensitive cameras, students have worked alongside Martin and Professor of Natural Resources Erik Olson. pictured here, to identify a multitude of mammals, insects, frogs, fungi, and lichen living in the canopy, including the highest ever recorded sighting of the gray tree frog in 2017.

“Now you understand my obsession with these old white pines,” Martin said.

What he didn’t know is that this would be one of his last, long looks.

One month later, the white pine fell during the Father’s Day weekend rainstorm. At 105-feet tall and at least 116 years old, it was just a few years shy of being considered old growth by regional management standards.

Even in death, however, Martin said the white pine continues to provide instruction in ecosystems.

“A tree that once provided habitat for birds, tree frogs, stoneflies, and many other land-dwelling organisms now functions as an important habitat for aquatic life,” Martin said.

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Mapping a Better World

At Northland College, Sack would stare for hours at DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer, planning what new parts of the Chequamegon Bay area and north shore of Lake Superior he would explore next.

He worked on campus for Outdoor Pursuits, a program that hosted recreational trips for students during the school year, and talked his boss Greg Weiss into ordering “something like twenty 1:100,000-scale USGS maps” and plastered a whole wall of the office in Mead Hall with a mosaic that showed the Gunflint Trail to Pictured Rocks.

Sack earned a degree in teacher education, moved to Superior in 2006, and subbed in high schools for five years. Meanwhile he continued making maps until he eventually decided to go to grad school to turn his hobby into a living.

at Northland College,” he said.

“I didn’t know it at the time, but that’s really what turned me into a geographer, which is an important part of being a cartographer. You can’t make good maps unless you know something about space, place, and the natural world.”

Sack recently defended his PhD dissertation in geography, and works as the GIS faculty and program coordinator at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in Cloquet. He lives in Duluth with his wife Zee and two kids.

“I was so inspired by the environmental and place-based focus of the whole curriculum

When Sack decided to become a cartographer, he didn’t just want to make pretty and useful maps. “I became a cartographer to make maps that change the world I became a cartographer to make maps for the better,” he said.

that change the world for the better

In 2016, he created a map that went viral, The Black Snake in Sioux Country, showing the geography of the struggle of the Standing Rock Sioux and their allies against the Dakota Access Oil

Photo by Tom Urbanski courtesy of Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College

Carl Sack ’06 has always loved maps. As a teenager he got into orienteering, which uses detailed topographic maps, and he was hooked for life. “I loved picturing the landscapes they showed to find the fastest way across wild country.”

Pipeline in North Dakota.

He’s also mapped the Great Sioux Nation treaty boundaries as outlined in the 1851 and 1868 Treaties of Fort Laramie and subsequent court decisions, and he made several maps of the proposed Penokee Mine back in 20112015.

He’s currently mapping the proposed Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline and the risks it poses to tribal cultural resources.

“To me, maps provide an important vehicle for empowering marginalized communities to fight back against environmental and social injustice,” he said.

Resistance Mapping, Defined with decolonization, which means changing the ways we’re used to looking at the world.

Maps have the power to define how we see the world. Few people question the authority of a map, yet maps embody the interests of their creators. Take those red township and range lines on USGS topo maps. They’re part of the Public Lands Survey System, which was created by the Land Ordinance of 1785.

Usually there’s nothing on the ground where those lines are on the map. But those lines empowered white settlers to turn land that Indigenous people didn’t think of as ownable into private property. Social justice begins

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Feminist cartography, countercartography, and Indigenous cartography are names given to various efforts to challenge colonialist and capitalist map-making.

These ideas have been around a while—at least since the 70s when “Wild Bill” Bunge mapped black children run over by white motorists and rent flows to suburbia in Detroit. The Counter-Cartographies Collective in North Carolina does some interesting work, and Rebecca Solnit’s recent trilogy of cultural atlases is well worth checking out. In promoting the term “resistance mapping,” I’m looking to tie

these sorts of mappings directly to activist struggles for social and environmental justice in the face of increasing resource extraction and climate change.

One of my predecessors as a grad student in the UW-Madison Geography Department was a man named Zoltan Grossman, who is now a professor at Evergreen College in Washington State. Back in the 1990s, Zoltan helped stop the Crandon Mine, which would have destroyed the wild rice beds of the Mole Lake Sokaogon Chippewa Community.

He declared, “The side with the best maps wins.” Well, not always, as Standing Rock shows, but maps can powerfully visualize injustice and change public opinion around an issue to make winning more possible.

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FIGHTING FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE

East Boston is situated on the front line of climate change.

Made up of five islands joined by landfill, East Boston is a peninsula that connects to Boston proper by two underwater automobile tunnels and an underwater transit tunnel. Located within a recognized flood zone, the people there have had regular reminders of their climate reality via hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, Sandy, and the socalled “bomb cyclones” during a blizzard last winter.

“The bomb cyclones really brought it home— they hit at high tide and we got flooded with sea water, in winter,” said Gabriela Boscio Santos ’09, climate program manager at the Neighborhood of Affordable Housing, where she works with partners and community on inclusive climate resilience planning and engagement in East Boston. “It was shocking and a wake-up call.”

The Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH) is a thirty-year-old community development corporation that works on affordable housing and then takes it a step further, enriching the lives of people who live there.

Boscio Santos, who has been at this job for a year and a half, coordinates with Boston’s most vulnerable citizens—immigrants, low income individuals, and

people of color. “They are at the bottom of the list of people who get served,” she said.

Her team creates social cohesion and a sense of place—offering activities like kayaking, coordinating youth organizers for service projects, building skills like English for speakers of other languages, and training people to become effective organizers within their community. They talk to residents about energy efficiency and storm preparation—think basements.

“But, the most powerful climate work we do is community-wide planning,” Boscio Santos said.

“NOAH brings together community members to talk about what kinds of infrastructure solutions they want and workshop design solutions to prevent flooding.”

This planning builds on the City of Boston’s report, Coastal Resilience Solutions for East Boston and Charlestown, which identifies flooding risks and solutions for East Boston. Boscio Santos said NOAH wants to expand that work, further ground it in the community needs and desires, and make sure this goes beyond reports, to real-life projects.

“When you think about solutions, a wall is often the first thought,” Boscio Santos said. “It’s not always a wall or doesn’t need to be a wall—it could be a park, something beautiful, and we can advocate for that.”

#ENO UG H In solidarity with students across the country, the Northland campus participated in a national walkout called #Enough. Students, staff, and faculty stood on the snowy mall March 14 at 10 am for seventeen silent minutes—seventeen minutes for the seventeen students and staff killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

“The intention was not to disrespect class time but

show support for the victims of Parkland and the need for adequate gun control legislation in this country,” said Jenise Swartley, one of the organizers.

Swartley leads the Northland College Student Association and is part of the Northland Community Action Group, an ad hoc group formed two years ago as a way to help connect students to organizations and people in the region working on civic and political issues of interest.

GABRIELA BOSCIO SANTOS

On Finding Northland College

For the longest time, I wanted to be a scientist. In high school, I learned about environmental science and when I was looking through piles of college brochures, Northland College sent a recycled plastic frisbee.

It stood out. I applied there, Boston University, and the University of Puerto Rico.

Northland offered the most scholarships.

On Hurricane Maria that hit Puerto Rico, killing an estimated , people

Maria puts into perspective what I do. My family and friends are there. It is a driver for me in my work. I know that things are going to get better because of the resiliency of Puerto Ricans but there is so much loss and so many challenges. I can only hope this disaster opens the door to sustainable opportunities.

It gives me renewed purpose and drive.

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Rain Gardens Provide Stormwater Storage

SLOW THE FLOW

By Aidan Reilly ‘19

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This past summer Nile Merton ’15 returned to Northland College’s campus to finish a project he started as a student, updating the rain garden at the Larson-Juhl Center for Science and the Environment. At the same time, across campus, junior Shelly Ray started plans for a rain garden for the new Hulings Rice Food Center.

In 2018, the board of trustees approved a zero stormwater

discharge initiative, with a goal of reducing rain runoff from campus to what would have been here before the campus was built.

The importance of reducing run off has never been higher with the region experiencing its third large flood event in the past six years—and rain gardens play an important role in capturing runoff.

In June, Merton, who started his own ecological restoration business, worked with Burke Center research assistants planting different types of sedges, grasses, and forbs to soak up water and provide habitat.

Meanwhile, Burke Center research assistant Shelly Ray, who is majoring in water science, planned for a new rain garden.

The construction of the Food Center rain garden still requires funding but Ray is hopeful her work has prepared the project for its final stages.

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By Danielle Kaeding Wisconsin Public Radio Northern Wisconsin has dealt with three floods in the last six years that caused millions of dollars in damage resulting in federal disaster declarations. The region is seeing more frequent, intense rainfalls.

For the last several years, local, state and federal partners have been trying to find ways to slow the flow of stormwater running off the landscape, as well as reduce the amount of sediment washing into Lake Superior.

One way the group of stakeholders is trying to solve stormwater runoff is through wetland ponds.

Not far from the washout caused

by June flooding on US Highway 2, Tom Gazdik led the way to a roughly half-acre pond on the back of his property near Ino, west of Ashland. His grandfather came here to farm in the early 1900s.

“This was all dairy farm, so the cattle would graze in the forest.

There would be trails all over,” he said. “It was ideal for raising cattle because there was a lot of water available.”

But, the water also made it difficult to farm and many producers gave up growing crops or hay. Gazdik’s father gave it up long ago. He said that’s one reason why the spot was ideal for installing a wetland pond.

“I grew up playing back here in all the springs and all that stuff. I knew this was ideal for a pond, and I always wanted to have some up here,” said Gazdik.

“When I heard about this project, I’m going, ‘Oh my God. This is perfect.’”

from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.

The project began in 2013. The Great Lakes Commission and US Fish and Wildlife Service awarded just under $300,000 in Great Lakes Restoration Initiative money that funded work to reduce flood peaks and erosion in North Fish Creek, said Matt Hudson, Burke Center director of research programs.

“If we can hold back some of that water on the landscape before it gets into the stream, we can reduce the amount of water that rushes into the stream at one time and reduce the amount of erosion that happens, and then reduce the amount of sediment that gets into Chequamegon Bay,” said Hudson.

The project Gazdik is referring to is one Northland is leading.

The College is working with Bayfield County landowners like Gazdik to slow the flow of runoff from heavy rains using money

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From Grape to Glass Making Wine Counry More Sustainable

Aaron Schreiber-Stainthorp ’05 has helped twenty-plus wineries implement water conservation and zero waste programs, improve winery energy efficiency, and he led the Francis Ford Coppola Winery in winning the 2017 California Green Medal: Sustainable Winegrowing Leadership Award. He is currently the sustainability specialist at Jackson Family Wines (e.g. Kendell-Jackson wines) and operates his own consulting business, Sustainability Squared.

S E E YO U N EXT YEAR!

Photos by David Bednarski '73

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Creating Home

BEFORE BEFOR BE the Holidays Holidays for LGBTQ youth can be tense and intense, filled with family confrontations, awkwardness, and outright hostility.

“It’s awful,” says David Mettille, coordinator for student affairs and advisor for the Alliance, a student organization for the campus LGBTQ community.

And while some write off the holidays forever, David decided to go in another direction. He not only welcomes and anticipates Christmas, he decorates seventeen trees—seventeen!—in the Victorian house he shares with his husband, Teege, dean of admissions and financial aid, and their son Logan.

And then he throws open the front door for an annual event he and Teege started when they moved here in 2013, called the Rainbow Dinner. David decorates; Teege makes his famous Oreo truffles.

Teege's Famous Oreo Truffles

“I want all students to have and feel joy, to have that warm, holiday feeling with one’s chosen family,” he said.

8oz. cream cheese, softened

The first year, David hoped for forty people; they got eighty. They’ve peaked at 105 people.

36 OREO Cookies, finely crushed, divided

The event has become one of the most anticipated parties of the year. Students, faculty, staff, and their families, throw off their shoes and traipse through the rooms of the house searching for all seventeen Christmas trees, treating it like a treasure hunt. They eat and drink and rub elbows with the mayor of Ashland, who lives down the street, and other Ashland dignitaries.

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“People bring friends from out of town just to show them that this is the type of welcoming place where we live,” David said.

The Rainbow Dinner has expanded beyond the LGBTQ family. Coaches have brought their teams and last year when the LumberJill’s hockey team had to miss because they were on the road, they baked and sent over a rainbow cake.

“We’re not only creating happy holiday memories, we’re educating the majority of students on how to be allies,” David said.

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Ruth de Jesus

Diversity Every Day, All Day Interview by Julie Buckles

Ruth de Jesus was hired last year as the first diversity and inclusion coordinator at Northland College. De Jesus has spent her adult life working with nonprofits, earned her master of divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and has served students of color and advancing equity in higher education.

Buckles: What’s on the minds of students in 2018?

De Jesus: Great question! I want to know.

Truly, I bring the assumption that in order to create inclusive, equitable communities, we must build relationships. And building relationships requires vulnerability. So far, students have responded well to my approach. That tells me they are interested in and willing to practice critical selfreflection and engagement. Students know my programs are meant to challenge them and build meaningful connections. They also know my door is open. Since many students have visited me and responded well to this, my guess is they are of the mind to build a healthier self and more inclusive Northland community.

You’ve stated retention of students of color and of first generation students is your top priority. Why? Retention is a need the College identified and shared as one of the priorities related to diversity. As a professional in this field, I look for language that indicates the vision, commitment, and direction of an institution. I was excited to apply for a position that elevated access, equity, and student success, particularly connecting this work to admissions’ efforts in creating a campus that is more representative of our nation’s demographics. Of course, my work is much broader than retention.

I highlight retention of students of color and first generation to keep us on task and not dilute the vision set by Northland.

experiences young people need to develop into well-rounded adulthood—among them, exposure to diverse people and cultures. He shared concerns about his son having grown up in a white home, lived in a predominantly white community and now entering Northland, an even more racially homogenous community.

This father articulated well the challenge we face. We must recognize and name the various forms of privilege we all have. We must make room to learn. And we must set about subverting the narratives and power structures we reinforce.

How have students responded to having you on campus?

My interactions with students have been delightful. They are engaged and curious and open to talking. I have had the pleasure to meet with students who drop in to share their experiences, or to develop ideas for clubs, or to invite me to collaborate on programming. Each time I have led a workshop, students will approach me to speak more about the topics we covered or will ask to meet individually to share a personal story.

What does it mean to you to be the first diversity and inclusion coordinator?

For me it means being the first person tasked with thinking about diversity issues all day, every day.

My task is to balance the expectations and hopes the community has, listen to the needs and learn the culture, while at the same time providing leadership. I take seriously the excitement and pressure of setting a tone that will shape how the Northland community understands diversity and inclusion, equity and justice.

Do you see diversity challenges/ opportunities unique to Northland?

During new student orientation, a father approached me and asked if I’d read a recent New York Times article. It addressed learning

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Uniting Labor and Environment

Roxanne Johnson ‘03 is a senior research analyst at the BlueGreen Alliance, an organization working to unite labor unions and environmental organizations.

At Northland, she majored in mathematics and environmental studies with an emphasis in natural sciences and later completed a master’s degree in science, technology, and environmental policy at the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs.

Buckles: How did you get involved with BlueGreen Alliance?

Johnson: There was a research position available for a wind energy project after I completed my graduate program and I was intrigued by the labor/enviro connection because both my dad and grandpa were in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union.

Would they have supported this Alliance?

Oh yes! My dad is still working as an active member of IBEW and he’s pretty progressive.

My grandpa has been gone several years now, but I was proud to tell him I got a good union job working on environmental issues.

Labor and the environment are often pitted against one or the other—it’s good jobs or it’s the environment and you can’t have both.

What middle ground do you see?

I think people are starting to see that this is a false choice. Environmental regulations are driving investments in the clean economy all over the world and creating jobs. We’re also seeing more overlap of labor and environment in social justice movements like the People’s Climate Movement. Part of building a resilient future in the face of climate change is making sure our economy supports the people working in it—how we build that future is as important as what we build.

What are your biggest challenges?

One of our biggest challenges is also our biggest opportunity. We are a coalition working together where our individual interests overlap for a common bluegreen goal: to build a clean, fair, thriving economy. Together we are powerful. But every member organization has their own priorities and perspectives, we don’t always agree. We do a lot of dialogue and relationship-building to understand one another’s perspective, and I have learned from folks in the labor movement about the importance of solidarity.

How so?

Union members stand together to support all working people, whether they are striking to demand better working conditions or fighting for an increase in minimum wage. They refer to one another as brothers and sisters. Right now there seems to be many fragmented movements that disagree on what to do about the most important issues. Solidarity allows us to respect our differences and focus on what we can do together to support us all.

What changes have you seen in your field in the last decade?

renewable energy or recycling. It includes raw materials and parts that go into products like wind turbines, solar panels, infrastructure, and equipment, and it also includes the workers who make those things—many of whom are union. We do a lot of work to highlight the importance of supply chains that make the clean economy possible.

Any key experiences at Northland College that shaped your career path?

I did my environmental studies capstone with one of my best friends, Melissa Damaschke ‘03, on the energy component of Northland’s ecological footprint. I loved it because the conceptual framework allowed us to use data to understand the resources required to power the school, then recommend changes that would reduce our footprint. I became really interested in how we conceptualize problems and how that enables us to think up solutions, which I still think about today.

It also focused on change at a systemic level which is where I want to be working.

Individual actions are great but our environmental issues are big, wicked problems, and I think to solve them we have to make all of our systems more sustainable.

The broadening public understanding of the “clean economy” is much larger than things you typically think of as sustainability, like

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Karlyn Holman ‘62 opened Karlyn’s Gallery in 1968 in Washburn as a place for potters to hone their trade and sell their wares. In the early days, she taught part time at Northland College, raised three children, mentored budding potters, and worked at her paintings and business. Fifty years later she’s still going strong, starting her days at 5 am to write and illustrate books, plan lessons for classes, and organize painting workshops, domestic and foreign. “I love teaching more than anything else,” she said. “When I was a potter, the wheel was everything—but it became my passion to open an art studio and school and I was able to make that a reality.”

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Citizen's Climate Change Lobby goes to Washington Junior Emma Hammond said she has learned three things from her internship with the Chequamegon chapter of the Citizen’s Climate Lobby (CCL) in northern Wisconsin: 1.

Things don’t happen overnight; 2. Respect is essential; and 3.

Bipartisan is sexy.

Hammond took a position as an intern with CCL for the winter semester looking up climate change related issues; sources and the complexities of carbon dioxide; and social, environmental, and economic scenarios associated with climate change.

outlet,” Hammond said. “Young people have such a powerful voice. I’m hoping to help students at Northland use that voice with more opportunities to get involved with understanding and influencing policies.”

Hammond got to pitch her ideas to lawmakers in Washington DC

“Seriously. Bipartisanship is the next big thing,” she says. We need combined efforts from both Republicans and Democrats in order to politically recognize and mitigate climate change—after all, everyone will be affected by climate change, regardless of political affiliation.”

Hammond, who is majoring in water science and minoring in environmental humanities, said she first learned about the CCL last winter when Chequamegon chapter leader, retired Bayfield attorney Bill Bussey, came to campus and spoke to the Northland College Environmental Council. Citizen Climate Lobby is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy organization with hundreds of chapters around the world.

“I was pretty hooked when Bill was talking about tackling climate change through policy and carbon fee and dividend,” Hammond said.

alumnus Mike Pesko ‘73, and four other CCL representatives joined 1,300 citizens to lobby Congress for market-based solutions to climate change.

Bayliss said he got involved with CCL through Hammond—they both are from Nebraska—and it has expanded his education.

“Considering I had never been to DC, the experience was memorable,” he said. “I loved the city and the energy and the chance to engage with government figures was humbling.”

The group tried to meet with Representative Sean Duffy from the College’s 7th congressional district, but instead met with his aide. “He was receptive to the information we provided and so it was another respectful meeting on the books,” she said.

Besides, Hammond is in for the long haul. Remember lesson number one?

The Chequamegon chapter of the Citizen’s Climate Lobby traveled to Washington DC to talk to lawmakers about climate change. From left to right: Emma Hammond, Seth Bayliss, Bruce Keyezer, Mike Pesko ’73, and Linda Herscher, Ben Popp, and Dan Herscher.

“My intentions of attending Northland came with the intentions of pursuing a career in environmental policy, and CCL has been such a wonderful

this past June. She and fellow student Seth Bayliss, who is studying sustainable community development with a minor in sociology and social justice,

“Change goes beyond hashtags, parades, marches, and dedicated months,” she said. “In no way are those efforts to be downgraded, but they should be acknowledged as short term and used as outlets to encourage more long-term participation.”

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Making Fashion Ecological, Sustainable, and Just Abby Rose Weglarz ’08 will be the first to tell you the fashion industry is the second most destructive industry in the world, next to big oil. Fashion designer Eileen Fisher has said the same over and again.

Now the business manager at Yana Dee Ethical Apparel in Traverse City, Michigan, a clothing line started by her sister, Weglarz was awarded the Environmentalist of the Year in business this past spring by the Northern Michigan Environmental Council.

“It’s been a huge shift for me to think about

vision of what kind of business,” she said.

“Finally, I realized Yana Dee needed more help. Why would I go back to school to get a job I could have right now?”

In contrast to the current trend of “fast fashion,”—more clothes at a faster rate, for less money—the Weglarz sisters have embraced a slow foods kind of sustainable business model where little is wasted, the emphasis is on quality and comfort so the clothing lasts longer, local people are employed to sew and paid a living wage,

same thing is happening with fashion, because people are caring more about social justice, the environment, and personal health.”

In conventional clothing production, about half of the fabric is thrown away because the fabric is so cheap, so thin. In contrast, Yana Dee Ethical Apparel utilizes nearly every scrap.

All of the unusable pieces fit into a standard residential trash bin each week. The usable scraps are bagged up for the Weglarzs’ mom,

l: Yana Dee r: Abby Rose how fashion is function and that fashion needs to change,” said Weglarz, who majored in environmental studies and community organizing. “Not just the materials that are used but how we shop. Closets are too full because we’re chasing trends.”

Weglarz did not take a direct path from Northland to Yana Dee Ethical Apparel.

After graduation, she worked with AmeriCorps in West Virginia and then in California, where she oversaw volunteers and a gardening program at a nonprofit with eight gardens, a food bank, and thousands of volunteers.

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and impact to the Earth is minimized in every business decision.

The same thing is happening with fashion, because people are caring more about social justice, the

“Fast fashion relies on extractive and toxic methods at each stage in the garment’s life—from the water and pesticides used in cotton farming, the toxic dyes used in manufacturing, the amount of waste from discarded raw materials and clothing, to the social costs of cheap labor,” Weglarz said.

In college and between jobs and on long weekends, she returned home to help out her sister, Yana Dee, and her sister’s growing clothing line.

The Weglarz sisters make decisions based on their triple bottom line of economics, environmentalism, and social justice. They use the best quality materials—like hemp— with the littlest environmental impact, and pay their seamstresses above the living wage for the Traverse City region.

“I was convinced my next step was graduate school. I wanted to merge environmental studies with business, but I didn’t have a

“I think back to my Northland College years when local and organic food was a newer, niche thing; that’s changed a lot,” she said. “The

environment, and personal health. “our primary waste reduction specialist,” Weglarz said.

When Mom visits from the Keweenaw Peninsula in the UP in Michigan, she picks up a load of scrap material, takes it home, and chops it into the right sizes for re-use.

The small pieces of material then get turned into Peace by Piece patchwork headbands, scarves, and even new clothes.

“My mom taught me that whatever you do, bring environmentalism into it,” Weglarz said.

“It’s what brought me to Northland.”

Find Yana Dee Ethical Apparel at yanadee.com or on Instagram @yanadeeshop.

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Empowering Women in Developing Countries Kayte Meola ‘90 is a sociologist, researcher, and educator, focused on gender, agriculture, and natural resource management in international development.

At Northland, she studied outdoor education with a focus on naturalist studies, then worked as a forest ranger, raft guide, wilderness and international community service trip leader, and environmental educator.

Because of her interest in writing, she earned a master in environmental studies focusing

pursue that line of work at the time.”

having been away from it for twenty years.

To get that training, she earned her PhD from Cornell University Development Sociology Department, and did her field work in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve in Amazonas, Brazil, a place touted as a model of participatory conservation where the local inhabitants co-managed the natural resources.

Two-plus years ago, she signed up for karate with her two children, then added kick boxing to her routine, and is testing for her black belt in March while she also trains in self-defense and weapons.

She later took a position as a researcher at the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research, integrating gender into

One day I was pushing rubber down the Potomac River in a complete deluge during the morning—then changed my clothes in the parking lot and headed into Washington DC for a meeting in the afternoon. on communications at Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, New Hampshire.

And that led her on a different kind of journey.

“I did a practicum with Rodale Research Center in the Maya Biosphere Reserve in Guatemala where I wrote about the work of a sustainable agriculture project,” she said.

There, she discovered a passion for exploring how society and nature intersect.

“I saw first-hand how structural forces compelled people to cut and burn the forest out of necessity, not out of malice or even lack of concern for nature.”

She met an anthropologist working with local indigenous women “and this appealed to me greatly, but I didn’t have the training to

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agricultural research projects to ensure that both men and women benefited from project outcomes and to help biological researchers leading these projects to better understand how gender relations impact the success of their projects.

She currently works as a consultant with the Inter-American Development Bank, doing similar work to advocate for gender in development loans for environmental projects throughout Latin America.

“My karate master sometimes talks about the warrior attitude of a Black Belt, how traditionally warriors would keep fighting to the death,” Meola said. “To translate that into contemporary training terms, he talks about

how even if you’re tired, or possibly even somewhat injured, you shout louder and try harder, but never give up.”

Meola next plans to integrate this can-do attitude with her passion for martial arts and her professional work of empowering women through fostering this attitude in others, especially women and girls in the developing countries where she works.

“When I think back on all those outdoor trips with Northland, many of which tested my courage and stamina,” she said. “They taught many of the same ‘warrior’ lessons—the importance of being able to put one foot in front of the other and keep going, even when you are tired, cold, hungry or scared. Even when you think you can’t.”

In addition to her research and consulting work, she’s discovering new ways to empower women, while recapturing the physicality that brought her so much joy in her twenties.

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STUDENT INITIATIVES

Students Combat Food Insecurity As part of a new chapter of the Food Recovery Network, Northland students have been collecting leftover food slated for the compost bin—pizza, soup, mashed potatoes—from Chartwells Dining Service on campus to package and deliver it to a regional food bank.

This chapter is part of a nationwide, student-led movement combatting food insecurity through eliminating waste on college campuses. Since 2011, the chapters of the Food Recovery Network have recovered over two million pounds of food

across the country.

“The Food Recovery Network Chapter at Northland is an essential component of promoting a more sustainable and just food system in our region,” said senior Jenise Swartley, a sustainable community development major who helped start the project.

Chartwells often has food portions too small to save.

Students take leftovers to Larson Food Lab where they turn it into soups and/or package and freeze it for distribution to The Brick Ministries, a faith-based

nonprofit organization serving low-income residents of Ashland and Bayfield counties.

In a recent poll by Northland’s Center for Rural Communities, ninety-three percent of households in Ashland and Bayfield County agree that everyone in this community should have access to healthy food. “By recovering and donating food, Northland aligns with regional community goals and values to increase the accessibility of healthy food,” said Todd Rothe ‘10, food systems manager.

Lily Sevilla, a senior majoring in sustainable community development and sociology and social justice, is a research assistant for the Center for Rural Communities, and is part of the campus garden crew. Follow her Instagram account, for tips on #zerowaste.

SHINE A LIGHT Purchased three Vitamin D administering light therapy lamps. They will be available for use in designated on-campus locations to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder.

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DRYING RACKS Purchased twenty-nine drying racks and two retractable clothing lines for use in the laundry rooms of residential halls to provide an alternative to dyers.

ECO-SHAPES Two triangular areas containing native plants were created within the pathways around campus.

BIKE FIXING STATION Installed a bike fixing station on campus for community members to maintain their bikes.

STORMWATER MANAGEMENT Upgraded the rain garden outside of the CSE to sustainably manage stormwater in collaboration with the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation.

BUCKTHORN REMOVAL Removed buckthorn from the ravine that runs through campus.

Buckthorn is an invasive species that continues to decrease biodiversity within the forests of the north woods.

TERRACYCLE Expanded TerraCycle, an innovative recycling company that has become a global leader in recycling hard-to-recycle waste such as chip bags.

The bike fixing station outside Mead Hall.

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Robert Rue Parsonage promoted by example and espoused the ideal of the “servant leader” during his tenure as Northland’s tenth president (1987-2002). Established in honor of Parsonage and his wife, Ruth Lull, the Robert Rue Parsonage Fund for Student Opportunities is designed to provide financial support for student-initiated leadership projects. Since 2003, the College has awarded about $600,000 to nearly a thousand students. This past year alone, eighty-two students received Parsonage awards for conferences, workshops, leadership training, and enriching experiences. Here’s a sampling.

VENTURING OUT onto frozen lakes with an ice auger and a soil dredger, a student collected sediment samples where previous wild rice analysis has shown evidence of heavy metal contamination.

FOR THE TENTH YEAR in a row, students attended the MOSES Organic Farming Conference in La Crosse, Wisconsin. MOSES is a hub for the organic farming movement in the US, gathering farmers, scholars, and environmental stewards under one roof.

OLIVIA ANDERSON ’18 purchased ecological handbooks to help her create building plans for a green addition for her high school.

ABIGAIL GENTRY took a rigorous seven-day backpacking class in the Grand Canyon in 2018 to study the geology of Paria Canyon and Lees Ferry to learn about her home geology and to reflect on the connections between ecofeminism and exploring wild spaces.

TRAVELING TO SCHOOLS throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota this summer, sophomore Michael Schwerin observed how teachers are using community place-based education approaches to spur kids to have passion for the environment and a lifelong love of learning.

AS PART OF THE STUDENT management team overseeing Northland’s climbing wall program, Kannon Kilander ’18 and Mackenzie Lemon ’18 both received their Professional Climbing Instructors’ Association certification.

FOR THE NINETEENTH YEAR in a row, members of the Northland Volunteer Program traveled to assist at a Habitat for Humanity site. “I realized my own ability to create a positive change in the world around me, and I returned to Northland with a new outlook toward my education—it’s about being able to apply what you learned and using that knowledge to create a positive impact,” said one student.

Alex Bruns What a great program! I received one when I was in school to pay for my trip and research to attend a conference where I ended up meeting people from Michigan Tech. This meeting eventually became the place I went to grad school and continued my Great Lakes research which ultimately landed me my full-time career. Thanks to the Parsonage Fund for making this happen.

SYMPATHY TO THE FAMILIES OF: James E. Anderson '51, Vancouver, WA, 8/24/2014

Andrew J. Gokee '89, Stevens Point, WI, 4/22/2018

Lois (Forsberg) Bartaszewicz '66, Saint Germain, WI, 3/27/2016

Philip H. Neubich '71, Spooner, WI, 4/25/2018

Rosemary (Hopps) Stafford '80, Nichols Hills, OK, 12/8/2016

Colette (Czerwinski) Molis '66, Waukesha, WI, 4/29/2018

Jean Baillies Voss '42, Toledo, OH, 12/8/2017

Jerry A. Sharp '60, The Colony, TX, 2018

Elizabeth (Hagen) Ellmann '48, Geneva, IL, 12/26/2017

Margaret (Huddleston) Zerwekh '44, Delafield, WI, 5/11/2018

Phyllis (Dobrovolny) Kroeger '49, Omaha, NE, 1/27/2018

Roberts G. Hannegan III '64, South Yarmouth, MA, 5/13/2018

Sandra K. Flanagan '70, Roanoke, VA, 2/13/2018

Susan K. Reynolds '68, Cable, WI, 5/17/2018

Annette C. Alt '98, Bayfield, WI, 3/15/2018

Michael A. LaCoy '75, Wausaukee, WI, 6/7/2018

George R. Kerkes '67, Hurley, WI, 3/17/2018

Edward C. Gates '86, Holyoke, MA, 7/11/2018

Adelaide (Watson) Poulter '37, Saint Cloud, MN, 3/24/2018

Frances (Jurasin) De Sautelle '73, Evanston, IL, 8/28/2018

Jay P. Lattimer '73, Franklin, NC, 3/29/2018

Carrie (LaGuire) Lolich '85, Ashland, WI, 9/6/2018

Jane (Beirl) Schallmoser '49, Alabaster, AL, 4/2/2018

Mary Van Evera, Duluth, MN, 4/13/2018, Trustee Emeritus

Henry A. Niemann III '87, Foxboro, WI, 4/7/2018

John J. Staton, Carmel, IN, 4/14/2018, Former Trustee, 1985-1989

Mary Dexter Hepner '50, Herbster, WI, 4/8/2018

Richard F. Wartman, Pennington, NJ, 7/2/2018, Trustee Emeritus

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