Making Connections Between Schools and Local Foods

From the La Crosse Tribune, June 25, 2012

Josh Miner, husband of UW-La Crosse biology faculty member Meredith Thomsen, is working to make it easier for local Wisconsin food growers to have their fruits and vegetables in local school cafeterias. Miner is featured in the June 25th Monday Profile in the La Crosse Tribune.

Read more here...

Researcher Park Williams to Speak on Forests and Climate Change

Dr. Park Williams, a researcher from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, will be speaking at UW-La Crosse about the affect of global climate change and drought on forests.

Thursday, April 26
4:00 p.m. 
1400 Centennial Hall
Free and open to the public


You can read more about Williams and his research in the UW-L Campus Connection article.

You can also download and read Dr William's journal article (PDF), "Forest responses to increasing aridity and warmth in the southwestern United States."

UW-L Green Fund Summaries Now Online

Summaries for UW-La Crosse Green Fund projects for 2009, 2010 and 2011 are now online. Take a look to see all of the great ways student supported funding has improved the sustainability of the UW-L campus.

• 2009 Green Fund summary
• 2010 Green Fund summary
• 2011 Green Fund summary

Dr. Stanley Temple, Aldo Leopold Foundation Senior Fellow

Dr. Stanley Temple

On Thursday, February 9th, the film Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time was shown on campus. Introducing the film and leading a discussion afterwards was Dr. Stanley Temple, now a senior fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation. For 32 years Dr. Temple held the same faculty position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as Aldo Leopold.

Here's an article about Dr. Temple and his thoughts on Aldo Leopold written by Kjerstin Lang with UW-L University Communications.

http://news.uwlax.edu/what-we-can-learn-from-leopold/

Vermicomposting at UW-La Crosse

In a cooperative effort with Hillview Urban Agricultural Center (HUAC) in La Crosse, UW-L is using vermicomposting to recycle pre-consumer food waste. With funding from UW-L's Green Fund, created with student paid segregated fees, an 8’ x 32’ industrial-scale continuous flow reactor vermicomposting unit and an initial 100 lbs of Eisenia foetida (red wiggler) worms were purchased and installed at HUAC. Read more about this very cool initiative.

UW-L Green Fund Applications Now Being Accepted

Application information is now available for 2012 Green Fund proposals. You can find the application document, background information and contact information at: http://www.uwlax.edu/sustainability/html/green-fund.htm.

Any UW-L student, faculty or staff can apply for sustainability project funding through the Green Fund.

Seeing How Population Grows to 7 Billion

This visual representation of world population growth does a great job of explaining how we got to where we are today. You can read the full story at: http://www.npr.org/2011/10/31/141816460/visualizing-how-a-population-grows-to-7-billion