The High School Sustainability Leadership Cohort Program is an opportunity for students in our area made possible through a USDA-funded project called POSOH (the acronym for Place-based Opportunities for Sustainable Outcomes and High Hopes). POSOH is a 5-year project that involves a partnership among the College of Menominee Nation’s Sustainable Development Institute, UW-Madison, CESA 8,…
A group of high school students, college interns, and Sustainable Development Institute staff traveled to Colorado to learn about water and fire issues, climate change’s impacts on the ecology of the region, and what sustainability means in different places as part of the USDA POSOH project. While camping out in the mountains for 5 days,…
On July 8 Ken La Tender and Brenda Miller (SDI summer student workers) attended an Intro to Sustainable Development class being taught by Chad Waukechon, to present an overview of a project they’ve been involved with this summer. The presentation focused on their work related to the installation of a one hectare training plot on…