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By Denise Thornton on July 23, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

FUN WITH THE SUN: teaching kids about solar energy

Summer is a great time to teach kids about solar energy. (So are spring, fall and winter – but summer is when organizations tend to schedule enrichment activities for obvious […]

By Denise Thornton on July 16, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

LOCAL FRESH-CUT BLOOMS RULE!

Here is my most recent publication – an article on the thriving local, fresh-cut flower growers in Southwest Wisconsin. This article may have generated the most gorgeous Isthmus cover ever. When […]

By Denise Thornton on May 4, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

THE FUTURE OF FOOD: from the 11th annual Nelson Institute Earth Day Conference

The Nelson Environmental Institute 11th annual Earth Day Conference considered the Future of Food. Skip the Big Mac and pass the tofu, please.

By Denise Thornton on April 21, 2017 • ( 3 Comments )

LOCAL SOLAR ENTHUSIASTS CELEBRATE EARTH DAY

We were pleased to write this page for The Dodgeville Chronicle Earth Day Issue!   As Earth Day, April 22, 2017, approaches, it seems fitting that so many people are […]

By Denise Thornton on March 14, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

BLUE MOUNDS AREA PROJECT REFLECTS ON ALDO LEOPOLD

Health is the capacity of the land for self renewal. Conservation is our effort to understand and serve this capacity.

By Denise Thornton on February 10, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

PRESERVING WISCONSIN’S RICH ENVIRONMENTAL DIVERSITY WITH STATE NATURAL AREAS

Wisconsin’s SNAs are not like state parks. They are more like arks – preserving some of our state’s natural diversity from the rising tide of development that threatens to overwhelm the […]

By Denise Thornton on January 8, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

LEARN THE LATEST ON SOLAR PANELS AT THE DODGEVILLE SOLAR ENERGY FAIR

Is 2017 the year to install solar energy panels? According to a recent Fortune Magazine article, solar power is becoming cheaper, and will beat the price of coal and natural […]

By Denise Thornton on November 21, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

BATTLING BUCKTHORN WITH BAGGIES

There’s not a lot to like about the stout, spiked branches of the aggressively invasive buckthorn tree, and now there is a new way to remove it.

By Denise Thornton on October 11, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

ASIAN JUMPING WORMS FOUND IN WISCONSIN

Destructive Jumping worms are being spotted around the Madison area. They are easy to spread because they winter in the ground as tiny, round brown or black cocoons about the size of the head of a pin.

By Denise Thornton on October 7, 2016 • ( 2 Comments )

HIGH VOLTAGE POWER LINES AND THE DRIFTLESS AREA ENVIRONMENT

When extensive edges are created, such as when you install a power line corridor, you reduce habitat and diminish local diversity within the remaining patches of habitat.

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