Dr. Jonathan Patz attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris last month where he chaired a session on energy and health for the World Health Organization side-conference during the venue. Patz, who is director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute, will speak about his experience Friday,…
…Saturday, May 14, with the 7 p.m. film screening of From Wisconsin With Love at the Minnesota Street Market. The film provides the perspective of the northern Wisconsin community that in 2014 beat back what would have been the world’s largest open-pit taconite mine in pristine forest on the shores…
…to get the formula right, Rossi said. “I’m a gin drinker—and as a distiller, gin gives you the most opportunity to be creative,” he said. Metropoligin recently took the silver medal at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, the largest in the world, and a bronze medal from the American…
…years after high school traveling throughout South America and Central Asia, working with nonprofit organizations in Uruguay and Chile as well as attending film school in Thailand. The EcoLeague program exists for students such as Travis who seek, in his words, “an opportunity to get outside of your world and…
…been named after him; as well, he has been awarded fourteen honorary doctorates. Robert Bateman is perceived by many to be one of the voices of reason and hope for healthy, rejuvenated, and creative engagement with the natural world. Many of his early works are on display at The Robert…
…New York, New York) Adult Notable Books Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man by Jason Mark (Island Press, Washington D.C.) The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York) Young Adult Notable…
…over the past year. By transforming bacteria into something beautiful, Fischer has created a show that challenges the notion that bacteria is gross or dirty. “My paintings are all inspired by the natural world, something that most people easily see as beautiful. By associating bacteria with nature as a whole,…
…students in education-related fields. This one-day symposium focuses on the connections between literature and the natural world for children and young adults. Presentations and session topics will explore ways for educators to integrate environmental ideas through reading and language arts. “When kids read, they are in the mind of the…
…Mech became a world authority on wolves and was instrumental in changing human attitudes with numerous scientific and popular articles. Dr. Rolf O. Peterson continued the Isle Royale wolf-moose studies to what is now known as the longest, continuously running wildlife monitoring program in the world. Peterson, a string of…
