Environment
The Environmental Cost of Computers
There is an old saying, “Whenever you light a candle you also cast a shadow.” There are always downsides to any choices, changes or innovations. Computer chip technology, computers and the Internet have transformed everything and improved many things. But are we looking at the inevitable shadows?
The Minnesota Center for Environment Advocacy (MCEA) recently had a webinar on the environmental impact of data centers which run the online world. They explain the environmental shadows many of us are not seeing. You can watch the MCRA webinar, or read a transcript, by ...
Fifty Five Earth Days Later
2025 marks the fifty fifth Earth Day. The local chapter of the Citizen's Climate Lobby and our NAOMI friends invite you to celebrate another Beloved Community Earth Day in Wausau at Westview Terrace Park (1501 Bissell St) at 10 AM on Saturday, April 26th.
Wisconsin and Earth Day go back a long way together. Truth be told, without Wisconsin Earth Day might not even exist. Horrified by a disastrous oil spill off the coast of California in 1969, our own Senator Gaylord Nelson conceived and set in motion the gears that made Earth Day 1970 a phenomenon to be ...
Birding by Ear
A birding by ear event will be held at Helen’s House at the Wisconsin Rapids Municipal Zoo on June 10th at 7 p.m. John Kubisiak will give a presentation on how to identify birds by their calls. Following the presentation, participants will be invited to take to the trail to identify birds by their songs. This is being done as a Birdability event sponsored by Clean Green Action, a local non-profit devoted to advancing education around conservation and environmental sustainability. Please contact us by email at cleangreenaction@gmail.com with any questions.
Protect Pollinators This Spring in Wausau
Although we have gorgeous weather this weekend, please resist cleaning up your yards and spend time outdoors in other fun ways this weekend!
WHY? Pollinators and other insects (which our very food supply depends on) are still in the leaves and other debris.
Bees and other pollinators touch our lives every day. About 85% of the world’s flowering plants and 35% of the world’s food crops (one in three bites of food we eat) depend on insect and animal pollinators to reproduce. Economically, insect pollinators contribute billions of dollars to U.S. farm income.
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INDIVISIBLE Hands Off Rally April 5
Northcentral Wisconsin INDIVISIBLE Fights back!
Saturday, April 5 at noon
Rib Mountain Drive (sidewalk between Michael’s Crafts and Hobby Lobby)
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. We are fighting back!
They're taking everything they can get their hands on—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and daring the world to stop them. This is a crisis, and the time to act is now.
🚨 On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the streets to fight back with a clear message: Hands off! 🚨
This mass ...
Fifty Five Earth Days Later
2025 marks the fifty fifth Earth Day. The local chapter of the Citizen's Climate Lobby and our NAOMI friends invite you to celebrate another Beloved Community Earth Day in Wausau at Westview Terrace Park (1501 Bissell St) at 10 AM on Saturday, April 26th.
Wisconsin and Earth Day go back a long way together. Truth be told, without Wisconsin Earth Day might not even exist. Horrified by a disastrous oil spill off the coast of California in 1969, our own Senator Gaylord Nelson conceived and set in motion the gears that made Earth Day 1970 a phenomenon to be ...
Green Plastic and Cow Burps
This article discusses two environmental topics. Both are examples of how we refuse to do even simple, reasonable things to deal with our garbage or take action on environmental problems. These stories illustrate our propensity to both believe in scientific solutions – technology will save us – while being woefully ignorant of basic science and unwilling to accept the warnings of scientists.
The Myth of Green Plastics
In recent articles I have discussed the environmental problems with plastics and plastic waste. The myth of “green” plastics is more of the ...
WE NEED THE AIR OF THE TREES
This past October I had the opportunity to tour the Menominee Tribal Enterprise sawmill located in Neopit, Wisconsin on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The logs that come into the sawmill are harvested from the 220,000 acre Menominee Forest. They have been harvested in a sustained-yield manner. Since 1854 two and one-half billion board feet of lumber has been cut, that is the equivalent of cutting down all the standing timber on the reservation almost twice over. However, the volume of standing timber now is greater than when they started in 1854. The forest can easily ...