Environment
RIGHTS OF NATURE WISCONSIN
Since we kicked off the Rights of Nature Wisconsin effort in late 2022, our group has made some significant progress! Milwaukee County recently passed a resolution for Rights of Nature and there will be a signing ceremony later in October. We continue to look for other communities around the state that would be interested in Rights of Nature ordinances. We can all be part of building this movement and restoring our proper relationship with the natural world. We invite you to join us.
We envision a world where the inherent rights of nature are respected and protected, ...
THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF OFFENSE
With almost unanimous bipartisan support, the U.S. Congress now spends nearly a trillion dollars a year – repeat that – a trillion dollars a year, on the Department of Defense. If one includes the Department of Homeland Security and the care of disabled veterans, it is actually more than a trillion. This represents the lion’s portion of the U.S. discretionary budget.
What this “defense” budget means in real terms is that all of the physical resources, all of the knowledge, all of the science and engineering, all of the development, all of the jobs, that ...
Healthy Climate WI Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 12, 2023
Media Contact:
Laura Lane
Healthy Climate Wisconsin
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Doctors and Nurses Join Sierra Club Wisconsin and 350 Wisconsin in Urging the Public Service Commission to Reject Madison Gas and Electric and Alliant Energy's Net Metering and Rate Increase Proposals
Doctors, nurses, and health professionals from Healthy Climate Wisconsin (HCW) are calling on the Public Service Commission (PSC) to reject Madison Gas and Electric (MGE) and Alliant Energy's new net metering proposals, which ...
Rights of Nature
Since we kicked off the Rights of Nature Wisconsin effort in late 2022, we have made some significant progress. When you join the call (link below), you can see our video, the website and other materials, hear about local resolutions and more. More importantly, you will learn what comes next and how we can all be part of building this movement and restoring our proper relationship with the natural world.
What exactly is Rights of Nature?
We envision a world where the inherent rights of nature are respected and protected, and where the natural world is ...
Copperwood Mine ~ The Porcupines
For those of you who have been following our "Save the Porkies," You are going to want to watch this video. If you have been up this way, you can see it for yourself on the North Country trail. Please visit www.ProtectThePorkies.com
For the record, this mine has NOT been fully permitted. MI EGLE permitted them to do all of this as part of their "wetlands permit," even though the tailings facility and tailings dam have not yet been permitted.
https://youtu.be/a_x-BAAbTUI?si=QKCcpBXzXKOtxUez
Don’t Tread on Me….Big Business!
Down the road whereon our home sits a neighbor flies the flag with a coiled rattlesnake and the words Don't tread on me written above it. I'm sure you've seen one like it. This is a flag with a history reaching to the mid eighteenth century. Back then the original colonies were pretty loosely connected and were facing off against the French and their Native American allies in what historians call the French and Indian War.
My neighbor's flag evolved from a political cartoon image that Benjamin Franklin first published in 1754. It depicted a snake chopped up into ...
THE HUMAN JOURNEY
Historically, two of the strongest indicators that a dominant "empire" is irreversibly in decline, are the financialization of its economy (manipulating money to make money - effectively parasitism) and excessive militarism (to defend and spread its parasitism). The US now exhibits these indicators in spades. Our nation, the United States, follows the path of previous great powers exiting the stage.
But again, speaking historically, the equation is different this time around. Humanity, for the first time, faces two great threats to our actual ongoing presence on Earth ...
Tiffany Song and Dance
“I hope you are enjoying the summer heat.” Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI).
This is the opening line in Tiffany's August 11 email newsletter. Wisconsin is suffering from unprecedented heat. Almost all of Wisconsin is experiencing drought. Parts or the state – including Tiffany's northwestern district – are in “extreme” drought with the south shore of Lake Superior having “exceptional” drought (the National Weather Service's highest category). Where I live in Douglas County is 6-9 inches below normal rainfall. Given these facts, Tiffany's statement is particularly ...
A Sad Update on the Porcupines
As you know we have ran a story or two about potential mining in the Porkies. Things unfortunately seem to be moving along.
For more information, visit www.ProtectThePorkies.com
Please consider signing the petition on their website.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBnPyeUpnK0