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Door County Climate Change Forum

The third annual Door County Climate Change forum this year will be addressing opportunities for forging a healthier, more prosperous world. The event is intended to increase awareness of the impacts of climate change on Door County and to foster discussion among community leaders and interested members of the public on cooperative action to address …

Weston Sustainability Roundtable Lecture: Nico Larco

While sustainable urban design has been developed and richly debated in the last few decades, it is still largely a dispersed subject covering a broad range of disciplines and scales.  Much of the discussion regarding sustainable urban design have either focused on narrow aspects of it, or, when discussing the field at large, have failed …

Global Health Challenges – Sri Lankan Experience:Dr. Vinya S. Ariyaratne

Dr. Vinya Ariyaratne is the General Secretary of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement  which is Sri Lanka’s largest non-governmental grass roots development organization. Dr.Ariyaratne also serves at the Director General of the newly established Sarvodaya Institute of Higher Learning (SIHL) and as a board member of Sarvodaya Development Finance (SDF), the economic empowerment arm of the …

PHS Monday Seminar:The Urban Struggle for Economic, Environmental, and Social Justice

In this presentation, Dr. Hutson will discuss his recently published book, The Urban Struggle for Economic, Environmental, and Social Justice: Deepening Their Roots (Routledge, 2016), where he documents residents’ resistance to gentrification in four cities—Boston, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. Malo André Hutson is an academic scholar and practitioner in the areas …

4W Summit

2016 Summit on Women, Gender and Well-being welcomes slate of international women’s advocates Streams of the public events can be found here. Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Donna Shalala and international Zimbabwe humanitarian Tererai Trent headline a public slate of speakers for the 2016 Summit on Women, Gender and Well-being. Shalala, president of the Clinton Foundation …

Cap Times: UW-Madison scientist’s study uses ice records to link Industrial Revolution, climate change

In Madison, there are more than 160 years of records on the freezing and thawing dates of lakes Monona and Mendota. But it was centuries of data on a lake in Japan and a river in Finland that helped a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus and a team of researchers show climate change trends since the Industrial Revolution.