by Jason Stringer, Erika Kluetmeier, Sherrie Gruder, Kurt Reinhold | Apr 24, 2018 | Videos
For our third annual Local Government Summit, the Wisconsin Academy and partners gathered in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on April 23-24, 2018, to share practical resources and explore emerging issues in local energy planning and resilience in Wisconsin communities. This...
by Ned Noel, Megan Levy, Manus McDevitt | Apr 24, 2018 | Videos
For our third annual Local Government Summit, the Wisconsin Academy and partners gathered in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on April 23-24, 2018, to share practical resources and explore emerging issues in local energy planning and resilience in Wisconsin communities. This...
by Jane Elder | Oct 12, 2017 | Magazine Article
If you live in a flood-prone area, you may be familiar with a term like 500-year flood, which is a description engineers, planners, and emergency agencies use to predict the likelihood, frequency, and scale of flooding events. A 500-year flood, which has a 0.2% chance...
by Krista Eastman | Oct 12, 2017 | Magazine Article
Yeasts are single-celled organisms whose voracious appetite for sugar serves us well. For over ten thousand years, humans have harnessed the fermentative power of yeast to create beer, wine, cheese, and bread. But yeasts are also critical to the process of generating...
by Mary Schlaefer, John Imes, Chelsea Chandler, Jane Elder | Jun 28, 2017 | Videos
There have been many notable developments concerning climate and energy over the past few years in Wisconsin since the Wisconsin Academy released its 2014 Climate Forward report. This media and community briefing comes on the publication of an update to our 2014...