The North Wind

Climate @ Noon dives into successful divestment proposal

Megan Voorhees • March 25, 2024

NMU’s Divestment student organization hosted a Climate @ Noon event Friday, March 15. The club covered topics regarding the campus’ institutional divestment and their project proposal which passed...

Jessica Thompson named Assistant Vice President of Sustainability

Rachel Pott • January 25, 2024

Jessica Thompson has been appointed as the Assistant Vice President of Sustainability at Northern, becoming the first person to fill this new position, created to further advance Northern’s university-wide...

Divest NMU prepares for Climate Action March

Ryley Wilcox • April 14, 2023

Divest NMU is organizing the second annual March for Climate Action on Thursday, April 20 at 12:30 p.m. at the Wildcat Statue. The march was organized by Divest NMU in collaboration with a coalition...

Editorial — NMU must divest from the fossil fuel industry

North Wind Editorial Board • February 1, 2023

Last Saturday, students from both Northern Michigan University and Michigan Technological University stood together in solidarity at their rival hockey game to encourage both of their universities to remove...

DivestNMU closes Earth Week with guest speaker and climate march

Ryley Wilcox, Staff Writer • April 21, 2022

DivestNMU, a student organization demanding the university pull investments out of fossil fuels, will host a guest speaker and a climate march to close out the 8th Annual Anderton’s Earth Week at NMU. The...

Editorial—Get involved with fossil fuel divestment

North Wind Staff • November 18, 2021

Currently, NMU pays a great deal of money to fossil fuel companies in order to keep the lights on around campus. This money comes from our tuition dollars and ends up supporting unsustainable energy. Yet there are other, more sustainable, energy companies the university could benefit from investing in, argues the Divest NMU club.