Environment
WALLS
Robert Frost said it first and clear enough: “Something there is that doesn't love a wall.” His walls were stony ones, upended and broken by frosty, heaving ground. The walls I do not love are stony too, built not on pastureland, though, but in the hearts of men and women. These heart-stone walls, held fast by a mortar mix of fear and a very human bent for being right and those different, dead wrong. We, thus, protect our neat and tidy interior lawns from the invasive and rambunctiously threatening swamps and woods beyond our perimeters. This tangled, ...
VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS FOR CLIMATE ACTION
In August 2022, Biden and the Democrats passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) despite unanimous Republican opposition in both the House and Senate where, as president of the Senate, VP Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act#Legislative_history)
We who are climate-concerned should be grateful because Wisconsin has already gained nearly $1 billion of IRA climate benefits alone. (https://www.wmtv15news.com/2024/08/15/wisconsinites-celebrate-clean-energy-inflation-reduction-act-anniversary) Moreover, the IRA has ...
Project 2025 Will Impact Your Life
Republican policies hurt people. Project 2025 provides a blueprint – and an advance warning – of the many ways Republicans intend to hurt most people and the country.
Project 2025 goes way beyond the usual Republican agenda of outlawing abortion, destroying unions, eliminating all restraints on big business and cutting taxes – again – for the wealthy. This agenda will dismantle all the social, legal, economic and environmental progress of the last 150 years. Many of the rights, protections, expectations and freedoms we currently enjoy will be eviscerated or ...
For the Water
Where do you go to find over 17,000 lakes, 86,000 miles of rivers and streams, 5.3 million acres of wetlands
and 650 miles of Great Lakes shoreline? Don’t go anywhere! Stay in Wisconsin!
Healthy water is one of Wisconsin’s greatest assets. By protecting our water, we protect the health of our
people, our economic interests, our recreation and our wildlife. Protecting both surface and ground water is
smart money management. It costs less to protect our water than it costs to clean contaminated water.
Healthy water for the whole state ...
ENVIRONMENT AND SPIRITUALITY SUMMIT
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https://aes-summit.org/
TREATY DAYS CELEBRATION
There should be a broad array of tribal delegations from WI/MI/MN and Ontario during this event included elected and natural resources and organizations. (Paul DeMain/Skabewis)
VOTE FOR DEMOCRACY, NOT DICTATORSHIP
Noticeably absent in the speeches at the RNC was any mention of Project 2025, obviously shielding us from the true horrors of this project until after the election in November when a second Trump administration could put it in place. Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership, also called the unitary executive theory, is a 900-page guidebook created by an umbrella coalition of conservative think tanks including the Heritage Foundation. Although Donald Trump has claimed he doesn't know anything about Project 2025, many of the authors of this mandate were operatives in the Trump ...
Project 2025 Explained: The Right-Wing Policy Map
Project 2025 Explained: The Right-Wing Policy Map For Trump – Promotes Mining in Indian Nation Lands, in the Boundary Waters, in Alaska & the Arctic Circle, in Arizona, in Colorado, & in New Mexico; and Eliminates Climate Change and Conservation Initiatives
Key Facts about Mining, Oil & Gas Drilling, Climate Change, and Conservation in Project 2025
Project 2025, spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation with help from more than 277 individual contributors and 100 other conservative groups, is a multi-part plan for the next conservative administration—...
Frog Song, Earth Song and the Rights of Nature
Late in the afternoon, about three months ago my wife and I were given the opportunity to time travel right here in Central Wisconsin, and we took it. Time machines are stashed here and there in these parts, though to most they would look like a pond, or a small wetland, or even the little pockets of water that dot the woods each spring. I had just put away my ax after splitting some of next winter's firewood when we set off down the road. We had barely gone a hundred yards when we unexpectedly stepped through a kind of science fiction portal into a soundscape around two ...