by Jane Elder | Apr 26, 2018 | Magazine Article
I grew up on the shores of a small lake in southern Michigan. To this day, I can clearly recall the choir of natural voices, from the returning geese and red-winged blackbirds to the awakening frogs, heralding the arrival of spring. The marshy areas around the lake...
by Meredith Keller | May 10, 2016 | Magazine Article
The e-mail arrived the afternoon before the event: “CISCO system is down at Hotel Le Méridien in Paris. We need to find another telepresence center.” The high-tech video system that was supposed to connect a panel of Wisconsin climate change leaders in Paris for the...
by Jane Elder | Apr 29, 2016 | Magazine Article
When the Wisconsin Academy was founded in 1870, the American fascination with science was in full bloom. Science was opening new windows of discovery into the world around us, redefining what we knew to be true through evidence emerging from research, review, and...
by Lisa Vihos | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
Poetry is not revolution, but a way of learning why it must come.–Adrienne Rich In the summer of 2015, I traveled to Salerno, Italy, for the inaugural conference of 100 Thousand Poets for Change (100TPC). Eighty poet-organizers came from across the globe—Egypt,...
by Sumudu Atapattu, Richard Keller, Jonathan Patz, Clay Nesler, Nathan Schulfer, Jeffrey Thompson | Feb 9, 2016 | Videos
In December, the United Nations 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) met in Paris, where nearly 200 nations ratified a new universal climate change agreement with the goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. For the first time since the Kyoto Protocol in...
