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Building Green Infrastructure in the U.S.: A Framework for Sustainable Growth

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture would like to invite you to a special guest lecture, “Building green infrastructure in the US: a framework for sustainable growth,” by Hugh Keegan. Hugh is currently the manager of ESRI’s applications prototype lab, a group working at ESRI’s headquarters in Redlands, California. The group …

Weston Roundtable: Sustainability and Science in the Anthropocene

Exponential changes of the human-dominated age bring great challenges for the contribution of science to society. Successful transition to any form of sustainability in climate, food, water, energy, finance, and health, if done at scale, will require rapid increases in integrated science; timely, co-designed knowledge, and focused innovation. Current structures are not well equipped to …

Zoonoses & One Health Updates Call

Tentative Speaker Schedule News from the CDC One Health Office Casey Barton Behravesh Director, One Health Office Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CBartonBehravesh@cdc.gov Gastroenteritis among Workers with Animal Exposure: 2 Recent Studies Sara E. Luckhaupt, MD, MPH CDR, US Public Health Service Team Leader, Surveillance Branch Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, & Field Studies …

2017 4W Awards Recipients

2017 4W Awards Recipients

Futurism.com: Reducing Our Dependency on Coal Will Make Us Healthier in the Long Run

International Dairy Short Course

The International Dairy Short Course celebrates its 20th year of education this October. The 2017 dairy course will feature farm visits, hands-on workshops and lectures from top-ranked professors and dairy producers. The three-day course will cover a wide variety of applicable topics including dairy management, reproduction, nutrition, milk quality and maximizing profitability. INCLUDES *6 lectures …

Energy dialogues and Energy Citizenship: Public Engagement in Energy Sustainability Transitions

In the face of global warming, energy sustainability transitions are needed on a large scale. Technologically speaking, this involves shifts away from fossil fuels to renewable, low emission sources of energy. Notwithstanding considerable technological, economic and political challenges in making such transitions, it is also vital that the public is constructively engaged. Energy citizenship goes …

Office of the Provost now soliciting proposals for the 2018 Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment grant competition

Office of the Provost now soliciting proposals for the 2018 Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment grant competition

Global Health Tuesday: Water, Women and Fisheries

Full presentation below: Nutrient loading from wastewater effluent and agricultural runoff can cause eutrophication and proliferation of toxin-producing cyanobacteria. Like many lakes, Africa’s Lake Victoria provides food, drinking water, and a source of livelihood for surrounding communities in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. These ecosystem services, however, are impacted negatively by increased resource demands, eutrophication, and …

Australian Radio National: Renewable energy health benefits outweigh financial cost