May 05
The Sustainable Development Institute led the 2016 campus Earth Day celebration by hosting a campus wide event on April 21. The event was organized around the national theme, “Trees for the Earth” and drew over 100 attendees. Besides students, faculty, and staff of the College of Menominee Nation, visitors included students from the University of …
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May 05
Written by: Dean Fellman – Director, Center for First Americans Forestlands & Jen Youngblood – U.S. Forest Service Tribal Liaison to the College of Menominee Nation The Center for First Americans Forestlands (CFAF) is the embodiment of a partnership between the College of Menominee Nation’s (CMN) Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) and four divisions of the USDA …
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May 03
At the beginning of April, CMN’s High School Sustainability Leadership Cohort and the Community Environmental Scholars Program (CESP) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison met to discuss ideas for a service learning project. The CESP facilitated short sessions in which they focused on getting to know the students and the communities they came from. Group discussions …
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May 03
By Cathy Munson, SDI Climate Change Intern The College of Menominee Nation’s Sustainable Development Institute Earth Day was an exciting and event-filled day. It started in the morning with a campus-wide clean-up and then participants went to stations across campus where they participated in activities. One of those stations was a mini-BioBlitz which is an …
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