A visit by environmentalist and bestselling author Bill McKibben kicks off this week's Making It Home Film Festival, April 16-18 at the Urban Ecology Center, 1500 E. Park Pl., on Milwaukee's East Side.
The controversy over Gov. Jim Doyle's proposed Clean Energy Jobs Act illustrates a deep philosophical divide that is emerging within Wisconsin's business community.
It's growing more difficult by the day to find true objective analysis of the issues of our time. Both ends of the political spectrum are loaded with false prophets, people who take a predisposed vision of the world and then try to mold the facts to fit that viewpoint, even if that reality is in absolute contradiction to their core beliefs.
Kristin Vailliencourt of Sprout baby boutique in the Third Ward, has boosted the presence of environmentally-friendly options in her shop to meet heavy demand from parents. Here are some ways you, too, can make a difference.
While pundits, politicians, scholars, scientists, celebrities and average citizens debate the existence of global warming, a different debate -- one that sparked heated discussion over the past two decades -- has been dormant. Is recycling worthwhile?
We dipped into spring for a while before churches chimed midnight on 12/31/10. Spring didn’t lead into summer, instead lead to midwinter mutters, though it wasn’t midwinter. Yes, 2011 began with howls of wind. Weird weather here, dramatic temperature swings, our first serio...
(The following will appear in the Crossroads Section of the May 4th edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.)
Knock on wood, but it appears Milwaukee’s third snowiest winter is finally over. It’s certainly a relief to not have to worry about more snow-relate...