Home is a simple word, but the experience of finding home is personal, complex, and always evolving.
The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters invites people across Wisconsin to join our Finding Home series and explore what it means to find home through the lenses of science, arts, history, literature, and civil discourse.
In every region of the state, people shape their sense of home through cultural expression, ecological knowledge, and community care. Many are also noticing changes in the places they know best, from shifting seasons to new pressures on land, housing, and water. Finding Home programs explore how people respond with creativity, stewardship, and resilience.
At its core, Finding Home brings people with different perspectives together with the goal of deepening understanding and identifying shared values and common ground.
This Finding Home interview features Tom Schlesinger of La Crosse, Executive Director of Our Climate Alliance. In this video, Tom discusses common misconceptions about climate change, particularly how the issue has become unnecessarily polarized. He emphasizes that addressing climate change begins with small, everyday actions that can collectively make a difference.
Tom ends this interview with a reflection on our shared responsibility to care for the planet: “This earth we are given is not ours to harm or waste. We are stewards to save the earth for future generations. We cannot harm the earth because it is not ours. It does not belong to us.”
