Environment


Healthy Climate WI Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 12, 2023 Media Contact: Laura Lane Healthy Climate Wisconsin whpcacomms@gmail.com (608) 215-0112 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 ...

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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 ...

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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

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Save the Date


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

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THE RIGHTS OF NATURE TWO

    This year WISDOM brought together a core group of us, who together have worked on what is known as the Rights of Nature. Please click on the photos to enlarge. You can also check us out at: www.rightsofnaturewi.org. You can also find us on FaceBook.    

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Brook Trout in the Coal Mine

To say that I come from a long line of fisherfolk requires something to measure that line by, so let's see what a brief glance at Google suggests.  Though not as helpful as I'd supposed the lineage of fishers clearly goes back a long, long way.  Somewhere between two hundred thousand and forty thousand years ago is the scientific range, forty thousand being the first time clear evidence of a heavy fish diet shows up in skeletal analysis.  He's known as Tianyuan man, and chemistry of his bones tell us he fished in eastern Asia and ate his catch regularly.   So ...

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