Upcoming Events
Coming Together: Being Grounded in Times of Uncertainty
June 17
6-7:30pm CT | 7-8:30pm ET
LSLLN is incredibly excited to offer this virtual community circle for folks looking for a space to collectively recognize, embrace, explore, and process complex feelings related to times of uncertainty. We know that many of us (or our loved ones) are losing funding, jobs, and protections for places, people, communities, and topics we care about. This can bring up lots of feelings, and as a network committed to connection, community well being, relationships, and care, we felt it was important to hold space for folks to process those feelings in togetherness.
All are welcome. A link will be posted when a date and time are available.
Guided by somatic practices, group agreements, and thoughtful faciliation, we will create a space for reflection and discussion about our emotions at this time, how to stay grounded, how to consider what we each need to continue, focus on why the heart matters, and how we can come together for connection and care.
We are thrilled to have facilitation support from tayla shanaye (she.her.they) of Embody the Revolution and author of Nourishing the Nervous System for this circle. tayla’s Bio:
I am guided by a love for the body and a desire help folks reconnect with the somatic tools and resources of nervous system care as a means of collective healing and transformation. In these uncertain times, finding ground starts with being present—and that’s only possible through our bodies. I believe that by accessing safety within our bodies, we can choose new ways of relating, ones that move us beyond the oppressive, stress-inducing systems we feel trapped in. By returning to the ancient technologies of the nervous system, we can live more guided by love than driven by fear.
Documentary Viewing
The Here Now Project
May 29 – June 5
Film Description:
2021 was the year climate change came home. From the streets of Brooklyn to the forests of Siberia, a relentless barrage of fires, floods, and storms made devastatingly clear that the extreme weather climate scientists had been predicting for half a century had arrived. Now, in a production of unprecedented scope, Emmy-winning filmmakers Jon Siskel and Greg Jacobs chronicle that pivotal year through the eyes of everyday people around the world. Built out of thousands of hours of in-the-moment footage—no narration, no talking heads—The Here Now Project captures both the simultaneous, global nature of climate change itself and the deeply human resilience, resourcefulness, and courage needed to confront it.
To watch the film:
Use the registration link below to enter your name, email address, and the invitation code: THN-DLH
Cosponsored by Climate>Duluth & the Lake Superior Living Labs Network (LSLLN).
For anyone in Duluth:
As a follow up to this documentary, Climate>Duluth will be hosting a climate conversation on June 21st, in conjunction with the National Climate Action Campaign, to discuss future climate actions in Duluth.
For the most up-to-date list of upcoming conferences and events, see our most recent newsletter!
Past Events
Lake Superior Youth Symposium 2025
May 15-18, 2025
University of Minnesota Duluth
Students in 8th – 12th grade, and their teachers, are invited to join us for 4 days and 3 nights at the UMD campus for engaging, multidisciplinary programming and field trips around the beautiful North Shore in MN.
LSYS takes place every two years in a community on the shores of Lake Superior. The purpose is to inspire and motivate attendees to become stewards of Lake Superior and the Great Lakes. Students will have the change to learn, share their stories, make friends, and enjoy fun activities!
Anishinaabe N’bi Kendaaswin (Anishinaabe Water Knowledge)
April 2, 2025
11-12:30 CT
12-1:30 ET
Enhancing Northern Horticulture through Terra Preta and Indigenous Wisdom for Sustainable Soil Health
March 28, 2025
12-1:30 CT
1-2:30 ET
Call for Fellows: Community Deep Mapping Institute
Applications due – Nov 22, 2024
Hybrid – Jan-Dec 2025
In-Person – July 7-18, 2025 (Houghton, MI)
The National Endowment for the Humanities Community Deep Mapping Institute is now accepting applications for fellows in 2025. Deep maps integrate information and representations about space, time, architecture, material culture, environment, and community knowledge into a spatially and temporally scaled digital platform that affords open-ended exploration of a particular time and place. The institute will fund fellows or teams of fellows who wish to learn the range of skills necessary to create their own public-facing deep map.
Northwest Climate Gathering 2024
Saturday, October 19, 2024
9am – 5pm
Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON
A free, inclusive day building community through conversation and adventure
Organizing for Climate Justice and Democracy: Perspectives from German Youth Activism
Oct 11, 2024
7-8pm CT
Luisa Neubauer and Helena Marschall, two of Germany’s most prominent and involved climate activists and movement builders, are coming to Minnesota. They will share lessons learned from climate and democracy organizing in Germany and across Europe. Their presentation will explore opportunities to foster dialogue and collaboration between activists in both countries, emphasizing the interconnectedness of climate action and social justice and seeking to find mutual inspiration.
Lake Superior Collaborative Symposium – Widening the Horizons of Restoration
Symposium – Oct 29-30, 2024
Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center, Ashland, WI
$60.00 USD
A two-day event focused on sharing, discussing, and collaborating on conservation, restoration, and climate-adaptive projects in the Lake Superior Basin of Wisconsin. The symposium will provide an opportunity for professionals to network, exchange project updates, and participate in action planning for the future of restoration efforts in the region.
Seminar – “Small particles, big impacts: nano silver disrupts ecosystem functioning in lakes”
Oct 11, 2024
9:30-10:30 ET
In-person: BB1054, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay
Virtually: https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/97532903824
Natural Resources Management is pleased to welcome Dr. Mike Rennie (Canada Research Chair and Acting Department Head) from the Lakehead University Department of Biology for a talk this Friday morning titled “Small particles, big impacts: nano silver impacts in lakes.
Plant, Grow, Eat, Save, Repeat:
Seed Sovereignty in Northwestern Ontario
Summer Institute for Teachers (Houghton)
Youth Climate Leadership Initiative (Thunder Bay)
Rain Garden Rebate Program (Thunder Bay)
Sustainable Duluth – Community Workshop Series (Duluth)
Webinar – Spilling Oil into a Boreal Lake – Insights from the Canadian Experimental Lakes Area
- July 17, 2024
- 12-1 ET
This webinar is part of the HazMaTON’s 2024 Summer Webinar Series, meant for non-experts with a vested interest in oil spill science in the Laurentian Great Lakes region.
Presenter: Jose Luis Rodriguez Gil is an ecotoxicologist and environmental risk assessor with over a decade of experience characterizing the fate and effects of contaminants in freshwater ecosystems.
Enhance Bird Habitat – Volunteer Planting
- Friday, July 5, 2024
- 10am – 1pm ET
- Fisherman’s Park West, Thunder Bay
Volunteers will plant trees, shrubs, and perennials targeted to attracting, feeding, and sheltering birds.
Bring: shovels, work gloves, water, sunscreen, and anything else you need to be comfortable.
Provided: extra shovels, trowels, gloves, and all other planting supplies.
Hosted by:Lakehead Region Conservation Authority & Thunder Bay District Stewardship Council
Anishinaabe-led approach to conservation and protecting nibi (water)
Friday, May 31, 2024
1-4 pm EST
Hybrid
In person – Lakehead Regional Conservation
130 Conservation Road, Thunder Bay
Event Goal
This conversation will bring together Indigenous Voices and land trust practitioners to create a guiding document that recognizes an Indigenous Way of Protecting Land to be shared with land trusts. And that conservation lands need to think beyond the colonial construct of land ownership to the much broader and deeper responsibility of ongoing learning, understanding, sharing and commitment to healing this relationship with Indigenous People.
Northwest Climate Gathering 2023: Hope & Action
Artists in Residence Show
March 6 – April 22, 2024
Thunder Bay Art Gallery
Michigan Tech celebrated World Water Day 2022 from March 17-22 with virtual events related to the United Nations theme, “Groundwater: Making the Invisible Visible.”
Learn more at: https://www.mtu.edu/greatlakes/about/world-water-day/
