Tips for shopping at your local farmers’ market
Visiting the market is a great way to get the family outside and moving while enjoying healthy and fresh local fruits, vegetables and other delicious homemade products.
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Visiting the market is a great way to get the family outside and moving while enjoying healthy and fresh local fruits, vegetables and other delicious homemade products.
We don’t think about it when we turn on the faucet for a cold drink of water, but it takes quite a bit of energy to fill that glass. How much energy is a question that some University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate students spent this past spring pursuing.
Internationally recognized for his work at the intersection of health and climate change, the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Jonathan Patz says the new John P. Holton Chair in Health and the Environment will significantly advance this work.
May 26, 2015 | by Office of Sustainability staff The Office of Sustainability is working with numerous partners to make UW–Madison a living model of sustainability by aligning research, education, and campus operations to advance sustainability principles on and beyond campus. Here we highlight two recent research publications that exemplify the integration of operations and …
A century spent treating wildfires as emergencies to be stamped out may have cost Central Wisconsin a natural setting that was common and thriving before the state was settled.
May 19, 2015 | by Office of Sustainability staff Commencement is behind us, signaling the unofficial start to the summer season for the UW–Madison community. With warmer weather ahead, here are some of our favorite places to visit to get outside and enjoy all that Madison has to offer in the summer. May 19, 2015 …
Students in Cathy Middlecamp’s Environmental Studies 126 course explore principles of food sustainability through eating and analyzing the environmental impact of meals at Ginger Root in Union South. Students in Cathy Middlecamp’s Environmental Studies 126 course explore principles of food sustainability through eating and analyzing the environmental impact of meals at Ginger Root in Union …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a campus full of memorable spaces, from Library Mall to the Memorial Union Terrace, from Picnic Point to the lush green rise of Bascom Hill.
May 5, 2015 | by Maija Inveiss Senior Emily Baumann is no lightweight when it comes to Styrofoam. As she prepares to graduate next week, the UW–Madison biochemistry major is leaving behind a growing program for reusing and recycling the thousands of Styrofoam shipping boxes that campus labs receive every year. May 5, 2015 | …
April 28, 2015 | by Maija Inveiss Every day, thousands of students cycle in and out of UW–Madison’s six dining halls without thinking much about how much food is consumed – or how much isn’t. But during their own daily meals, sophomores Colin McReavy and Katherine Kokkinias began to notice the huge quantities of food …