Initiatives Update
For over 40 years, Groundswell Conservancy has been protecting special places in and around Dane County. Now, they are focusing on how land trusts like theirs can help mitigate climate change.
Relena Ribbons’ fascination with pollinators has led to her blending citizen science and climate justice through ongoing community engagement projects in her role as a geoscience professor at Lawrence University in Appleton.
Later falls, earlier springs, smoky air from wildfires thousands of miles away–these are just a few examples of the impact of climate change in our state and in our everyday lives in recent years.
Wisconsin’s status as a politically divided state often puts us in the national spotlight.
Founded in a time of political upheaval and amid the Great Depression, Wisconsin Farmers Union (WFU) was chartered in 1930 by farmers who recognized they were stronger together.
Nearly 400 Wisconsin residents gathered last October at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison for Climate Fast Forward, a participatory conference hosted by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters.
Earlier this year, the nonprofit Milwaukee Water Commons launched a green infrastructure initiative to increase the urban tree canopy in the city’s neighborhoods.
Climate change is real. That’s not news to elders in Wisconsin’s Native American communities. They see it, they feel it, and they are taking action to deal with it.
Wisconsin K-12 schools are playing a vital role in incorporating innovative climate and energy solutions in the state.
The e-mail arrived the afternoon before the event: “CISCO system is down at Hotel Le Méridien in Paris. We need to find another telepresence center.”
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Wisconsin Academy Offices
1922 University Avenue
Madison, Wisconsin 53726
Phone: 608.733.6633
James Watrous Gallery
3rd Floor, Overture Center for the Arts
201 State Street
Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608.733.6633 x25