​Climate Awareness

Clean Green Action’s Climate Awareness Book Club went to ‘Brunch on the Farm’ in Milladore as a social gathering with great food (thanks to @LonelyOakFarm)! Our virtual book club finished discussing The Sixth Extinction, Saving Us, and How Beautiful We Were earlier this year. The book club is taking a reading break over the summer, with a few social gatherings being planned. They will pick their books up again in September with “How to Change Everything” by Naomi Klein followed by “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Anyone interested in joining our wonderful and supportive group of readers should reach out to climatebookclub@gmail.com.

Clean Green Action's Climate Awareness project works to make people more aware of the impacts of climate change in central Wisconsin and encourage their support of efforts to confront this crisis. Here are two opportunities to learn more about climate change:

• Climate Wisconsin - Stories from a State of Change: Find a collection of compelling video vignettes, sharing personal stories of how climate change is affecting cultural, economic, and recreational practices that Wisconsinites value.
• ​Climate Awareness Book Club - This book club is aimed at choosing, reading, and discussing books or reports about climate change and sustainability in order to educate ourselves and to help find constructive ways to address the issues while also addressing our own anxieties about the overwhelming nature of the problem.  If interested in joining, send an email to climatebookclub@gmail.com.
• Helpful links
  • Many helpful publications are available as free downloads via the UW Extension Learning Store
  • Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts
  • Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources 
  • Conservation Congress Spring Hearings
  • U.S. Geological Survey Water Data 
  • Environmental Protection Agency Information on Algae Blooms
  • Environmental Protection Agency Information on Flooding
  • Petenwell and Castle Rock Stewards
  • Travel Green Wisconsin
  • Wisconsin River Alliance
  • Trout Unlimited
  • 14 Mile Watershed
  • Wisconsin Wildlife Federation
  • Ducks Unlimited
  • National Wild Turkey Federation
  • Ruffed Grouse Society
  • Study on Multiple Sclerosis and Warming Weather

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