Campus Sustainability Updates - April 19, 2024 - Sustainability Hub for Innovation & Environment

BAD RIVER Film 

Monday, April 22 - 6:30 p.m. - Jamrich 1100

The Center for Native American Studies, with the Office of Diversity & Inclusion and with support from the Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior, will be hosting an exclusive showing of the academy-award nominated film Bad River (narrated by Edward Norton & Quannah ChasingHorse) 

Bad River, the powerful new documentary film written and directed by award-winning filmmaker, Mary Mazzio (I Am Jane Doe, A Most Beautiful Thing) and narrated by Indigenous activist and model Quannah ChasingHorse and award-winning actor Edward Norton (Primal Fear, American History X, Birdman), chronicles the Wisconsin-based Bad River Band and its ongoing fight for sovereignty, a story which unfolds in a groundbreaking way through a series of shocking revelations, devastating losses, and a powerful legacy of defiance and resilience. This inspiring project brings us through an epic sweep of history into the present, with a David vs. Goliath battle to save Lake Superior, the largest freshwater resource in America. As Eldred Corbine, a Bad River Tribal Elder declares: “We gotta protect it… die for it, if we have to.”

Trailer here: https://www.badriverfilm.com/

There will also be a Q&A with expert panelist Dr. Liz Arbuckle and decolonizing diet refreshments.

10TH ANNUAL ANDERTON’S EARTH WEEK - APRIL 21-27

Earth week is April 21-27, 2024! The EEGS department and Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU) are offering many amazing events! All events are free and open to the public! See the full schedule here. If you would like to learn more about the importance of Anderton’s Earth Week, read this SHINE article. Below are some of the events offered! 

Sunday, April 21 - 11:30 am-1 pm Outdoor Learning Area (OLA) Spring Cleaning 

Monday, April 22 - Forest Bathing Walk at the Academic Mall at 2 pm & Document Screening: “BAD RIVER” with guest speaker Dr. Liz Arbuckle in Jamrich 1100 from 7-9 pm 

Tuesday, April 23 - Renter-Friendly Composting Workshop in Jamrich 1320 from 4-6 pm & Food Systems Forum in Jamrich 3102 from 5-6 pm

Wednesday, April 24 - Stay Pressed” Button-Making for Social/Environmental Justice in the Jamrich Atrium from 12-4 pm & Documentary Screening: “Scale of Hope” in Jamrich 1311 from 6:30-8 pm 

Thursday, April 25 - Stay Pressed” Button-Making for Social/Environmental Justice in the Jamrich Atrium from 10-4 pm & Environment’Sustainability Trivia Night in Jamrich 1315 from 6:30-7:30 pm 

Friday, April 26 - Earth Fest in the Jamrich Atrium from 11:30-2 pm 

Saturday, April 27 - Pollinator Garden Work Party at the NMU Hoop House from 12-2 pm 

ECOREPS UPCOMING EVENTS 

Sharing Nature with Children - April 20 

Stay Pressed - April 24 from 12-4 pm  in the JXJ Atrium (across from 1100)

Stay Pressed - April 15 from 10-4 pm in the  JXJ Atrium (across from 1100)

No Meeting - Vote for E-Board members! - April 25 

Sewing Menstrual Products - April 15 at 5 pm at the SHINE Building - RSVP Required to mikroger@nmu.edu

Sustainable Dining Day at Northern Lights Dining - April 28 from 11 am- 7 pm 

SORT SMART EVENT

Come learn about composting on campus at Sort Smart! On April 28th, anytime from 11am to 7pm, we will have people by the carousel helping students sort their own waste. To participate, all you have to do is have a meal at Northern Lights Dining. Partridge Creek Compost will also be featured at this event. Hope to see you there!

We are looking for volunteers for this event. If you are interested, feel free to sign up for a slot (you can work however long as short as you want). You will be briefed on how to sort waste and then help students! Sign up here! 

GIS INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY - PARTRIDGE CREEK FARMS 

We’re looking for someone with ArcGIS experience to maintain and enhance our compost pickup routes. These routes are a critical component of our operation -- efficient routes save us both time and money and are ecologically friendly.

Your primary task is to support the weekly routing of our compost pickup vehicles. We have approximately 40 residential and commercial customers, and we’re onboarding new customers every week. You’ll be using ArcGIS in diverse ways, developing valuable skills and a deep understanding of ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online. Areas of the software you’ll be using include the following: Network Analyst, Geoprocessing and ModelBuilder, ArcGIS Online, Web Experience Builder, and StoryMaps. You’ll need your own computer capable of running ArcGIS Pro. You’ll install ArcGIS using Partridge Creek Compost’s license. Contact Partridge Creek Farms for more information!

SURVEY - FOOD WASTE SORTING HABITS OF NMU STUDENTS 

This food waste survey is administered to explore NMU students' food waste at NMU Dining facilities. Through the survey, we intend to understand and explore what can be done to reduce the amount of food students at NMU dining facilities waste. Please help take the survey: The survey is confidential and for academic use. The research's outcomes will improve our understanding of NMU students’ food waste behaviors. We would like to seek your participation in the survey. Participation in this study is completely voluntary. If you decide not to participate in this study or stop participating at any time, you won’t be penalized or lose any benefits for which you otherwise qualify.

If you agree to participate, we would like to inform you that your participation is anonymous. That means that your answers to all questions are private. No one else can know if you participated in this study or what your answers were. Take the survey here. 

The reports from the survey will be based on group data and will not identify you or any individual as being involved in this project. No known risks or personal benefits are associated with your participation in this study.  Any questions you have regarding the nature of this research project will be answered by the principal researcher, who can be contacted as follows: Dr. Jelili Adebiyi (906-227-2634) jadebiyi@nmu.edu

CONSERVATION CREW UPCOMING EVENTS 

Friday, April 19th at 4 pm -  They will be meeting at the OLA to carpool to Echo Lake Nature Preserve. The drive to the trail will be ~30 minutes and the hike duration will be about an hour. Please be sure to bring water, and we encourage you to bring a snack as well!

Sunday, April 21st from 11:30am-1:00pm - They will be partnering with GTU to do a work day/spring clean-up at the OLA.

Saturday, April 27th at 10:30am - They will meet at the OLA to carpool to Sugar Loaf. This will be a destressing hike, as it is near the end of the semester and the last event before finals!

We will also be holding a Study Session at the Crib during finals week! Come hang out with us and study!

NMU LINCOLN COMMUNITY GARDEN WITH CONSERVATION CREW EVENTS 

Eco-Consciousness & Pollinators Talk + Seed Bomb Workshop - Friday, 4.19 at 5:30 pm in TSB 3803 

FIREKEEPERS DAUGHTER EVENT 

Angeline Boulley, sponsored by the Center for Native American Studies, will be speaking at NMU at 6:00 pm, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Jamrich 1322.

The focus will be on the path to publication which I think crosses over into your fields and disciplines. Many of you know Angeline from her amazing works, The Firekeepers Daughter and Warrior Girl Unearthed.

There will be time for Q&A post-event followed by a book-signing at 7:15 pm.

The general public is welcome to attend.