Tag Archive: Sustainable Development Institute
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NECSC Fellows Retreat
Check with SDI staff about participating in a tour with the NE CSC fellows on Wednesday September 23, 2015. You can check out last year’s Fellows Retreat here.
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Aug 31
CMN Faculty Teaches Class at SDI
Dr. Dennis Vickers, CMN English Faculty chose to bring his class outside of the classroom and over to the Sustainable Development Institute. We encourage you to ‘teach outside the box’ this fall! Students are constantly hearing from their teachers, ‘think outside the box’. Now it’s your turn to be an active example of how to …
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Apr 30
My Intern Experience at SDI
Larry Madden Climate Science Researcher Intern When I entered the Sustainable Development Institute, I truly was a greenhorn to sustainable development. With the kind guidance of Marie Schaefer, SDI’s Research Assistant, and Chris Caldwell, SDI’s Director, I gained an understanding of not only sustainable development but the essential need for the Sustainable Development Institute itself. …
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Apr 29
Sustainability Leadership Cohort Attends WIEA Conference
The Sustainability Leadership Cohort (SLC) season officially began with a trip to the Wisconsin Indian Education Association’s (WIEA) conference in Milwaukee the weekend of April 9th-April 12th, 2015. This was the first formal gathering of this summer’s cohort members. Along with staff from the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), the students headed south for what would …
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Mar 27
Perspectives on Indigeneity and Climate Change: Sharing Menominee and Southeast Asia Worldviews
“Indigeneity” is not a term often heard in the Menominee community. But, on March 18th and 19th, College of Menominee Nation’s (CMN) Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) welcomed visitors from Southeast Asia who were participating in a workshop about indigeneity. The workshop was hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies. It was …
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Dec 12
SDI’s Youth Speak Event Honors Young Talent
On the evening of Friday, December 5th, POSOH and SDI held the Youth Speak Event to honor the student members of the Sustainability Leadership Cohort (SLC) and other tribal youth groups. The Menominee high school theater was used for the event to create more of a movie premiere feeling. To start the evening off right, …
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Sep 19
Kehtekaewak Farmers’ Market
SDI is excited to collaborate with CMN’s Department of Continuing Education to put on the first Farmers’ Market in Keshena. The first day of the market was August 15th and it will continue every Friday from 10am-5pm until October 17th in the Menominee Boxing Club parking lot. The Kehtekaewak market arose from an overwhelming desire within …
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Aug 21
Sustainability Leadership Cohort Returns from Flood and Fire Ecology Trip to Colorado
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, …
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