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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
Digging in the Driftless 