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Wisconsin Academy of Science Arts and Letters

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Turtle Island Confederacies: Relationships and Balance
Feb 11
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Founding Narratives: The Evolution of Ancient Athenian and Early American Democracy
Mar 4
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Post-Contact Indigenous Governance
Mar 25
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Balancing Individual Interests and the Common Good
Apr 15

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This 24-acre stretch of land along the Menomonee River in Milwaukee used to be an abandoned rail yard. In 2013 a group of state and local partners completed its transformation into an urban green space. Today, Three Bridges Park is home to an urban ecology center and bike paths, and hosts over 50,000 visitors every year. Photo by Jon Elliott/MKE Drones.
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Natural Climate Solutions

Natural climate solutions are pragmatic options for sequestering greenhouse gases. But where to start?
Chef Elena Terry holds ancestral corn seeds. Photo by Tom Jones. No reproduction without permission.
Wisconsin Table
Seeds of Change

For Chef Elena Terry, seeds represent both the past and the future of her people.
Illustration by Laura Ovberg
Fiction
Junk Shed

My father eats braunschweiger sandwiches, thick ones he squeezes tight to hold together. He holds them with the hand that’s missing a finger.

New & Interesting

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Steps to Transformative Change: Healthy Waters for All

For the Wisconsin Academy's Environmental Breakfast Series, Kirsten Shead and Brenda Coley, Co-Executive Directors of Milwaukee Water Commons...

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Wisconsin Business Roundtable: Introduction and Keynote

For the opening session of the Academy's Wisconsin Business Roundtable on Climate Change, Tom Boldt, CEO of The Boldt Company, and  Jeff Thompson...

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Wisconsin Business Roundtable on Climate Change: Panelists

The Way Forward panel including; August Ball (CEO and Founder of Cream City Conservation & Consulting LLC), Kari Grasee (Vice President of...

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Mary Wehner: Fiction & Poetry winners' live reading series

Mary Wehner shares a reading of her prizewinning poems from the Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest.

Mary Wehner is a poet and...

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