Environment
Our Shaky Tower of Environmental Sustainability
With one eye focused on the tragedy in Ukraine and the other on the rising price at the gas pump, we run the risk of missing an even greater crisis quietly bearing down on us. The stability of our lives depends on a bewildering multitude of interdependent elements, something like a complex Jenga Tower. Keep all the blocks in place and the tower stands solid enough to plan our futures upon. Start pulling out the supporting blocks and things get wobbly. Pull out enough blocks and everything collapses. Of course, I am talking about the environmental sustainability of life on ...
Wisconsin Poor People’s Campaign stands with the people of Wausau to demand clean water
Last week, residents of Wausau found that every single drinking water well in their municipal water system revealed higher levels of PFAS...than recommended by proposed state thresholds for these chemicals.
Wausau going big on solar energy should excite those who love nature
As a homeowner myself, there was something in their desire to preserve “hearth and home” that at first struck an empathetic chord.
Antlers: The real horror story is that white tailed deer have COVID
SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, is proving to be resilient even with vaccination of roughly 60% of the human population.
Enbridge threatens Lake Superior
Line 3 was routed out of Canada and into the water-rich 1855 Treaty Territory after Enbridge achieved what is known as “regulatory capture.
Growing old forests
Northern Wisconsin was once covered with extensive old growth forests.
Let’s price carbon now and let’s do it equitably
When I first started gardening in 1974, frost took the cold sensitive plants down the very first weekend in September.
Are forests only commodities?
Everywhere we go we see the scars of logging in our county and state forests.
It is not too late to halt Line 3 for health.
The Anishinaabe peoples are one group who will be negatively impacted. Their tribal lands and livelihoods are threatened.
Help Pollinators By Collecting Wild Common Milkweed Seedpods In Select Central Sands-Area Counties
The DNR seeks donations of mature milkweed seedpods from select Wisconsin counties to aid plantings on state prairies.