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Report out from the 2019 State Water Quality Task Force

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Speaker Vos organized a Task Force in 2019 to obtain information of the state of water quality in Wisconsin. That report has been completed, along with legislative recommendations. Staff Attorney from the Midwest Environmental Advocates, Adam Voskuil, talks about some of the findings and preliminary shortcomings. Image: Wisconsin State Legislature website

Wars on Iraq and “Terror” cost $6.9 Trillion

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Jan talks with Lindsay Koshgarian from the National Priorities Project about her recent article in The Progressive Magazine entitled “Can’t Afford Another War”. She refers to data researched by the Watson Institute showing the cost of the Iraq War and related costs to $6.9 Trillion since 2001, and how that money could be spent better. […]

“Making the Connection” joins the environment and personal...

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“Making the Connection” refers to the connection between environmental health and people’s health. That’s the title of the conference being held on March 6th, sponsored by the Wisconsin Environmental Health Network and Physicians for Social Responsibility. It is open to the public and will offer talks from environmental physicians and ecologists. Photo by WEHN

The Scale of the Universe

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Think about your favorite science fiction space opera.  Whether it’s Star Wars, Star Trek, or something more obscure like Larry Niven’s Ringworld novels, sooner or later someone’s going to jump into a spaceship, mutter some mumbo jumbo about warp drives, light jumps or wormholes and go winging past the stars at some fantastic speed,  crossing […]

What’s New in the Science of What’s Old

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In 1879, German naturalist Ernst Haeckel drew his version of a “Genealogical Tree of Humanity” to show how human beings are related to other species of animals on the earth.  The tall, slender, tree rendered by Haeckel has a distinct hierarchy: “monera” or single-celled animals at the bottom, mammals at the top, and at the […]

Water Quality: The Good, The Bad and The Inadequate

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In his first year of office, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers declared 2019 the “Year of Clean Drinking Water.”  To back that up, Evers put 70 million dollars into his executive budget dedicated to drinking water initiatives.  Little of the governor’s money made it past the Wisconsin legislature, which scrapped much of Evers’ budget before passing […]

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