…excelled at science and went on to study in the United States. After returning home, Wangari blazed a trail across Kenya, using her knowledge and compassion to promote the rights of her countrywomen and to help save the land, one tree at a time. • 2011. Fire Season: Field Notes…
Environmental groups filed a formal challenge on Friday with the Department of Natural Resources over the agency’s decision to allow the City of Racine to divert millions of gallons a day from Lake Michigan for technology giant Foxconn Technology Group and other users. The move once again thrusts southeastern Wisconsin…
…a new diversion controversy. The city of Waukesha — using an untested exception clause in the compact — has asked to divert up to 10.1 million gallons of water per day. It’s the most polarizing diversion proposal since Nova, and on Thursday, Great Lakes officials will gather in Chicago to…
…a few bonus tracks. Fear is both good and bad. You’re floating gently down the stream, hear the roar of a waterfall in the distance, and suddenly snap out of your daydream. A little fear can stimulate a correction and save your life. But too much fear can paralyze rather…
Northland College Filmmaker in Residence Paulette Moore will be screening and discussing The Spirit of Standing Rock, her documentary featuring activists known as Water Protectors, this week in Washington D.C., Baltimore, Maryland, and Buffalo, New York Water Protectors have stood with Standing Rock Sioux leaders in North Dakota to defend…
…water that Waukesha wants to start buying from nearby Oak Creek, Wis., within a few years. To the city of Racine, it’s also about the quality of 8.2 million gallons a day of treated wastewater, or effluent, Waukesha plans to put into the Root River to make up for what…
