Upcoming events — details below!
‣ Earth Week Celebration 2024!
‣ Other Upcoming Madison-area Earth Month Events!
‣ Free Bad River Film Screenings in Stevens Point, 5/1/24!
‣ Tell the USACE: Don’t Take Shortcuts on Line 5!
‣ Support Sustainability on the UW–Madison Campus!
Earth Week Celebration 2024!
Saturday, April 20
Please consider joining the 350 Wisconsin Art Collective
at one or both of the following Earth Week kick-off celebrations!
- Saturday, April 20, at 10:00 am, a group of rather unusual “visitors” will appear at the Dane County Farmers’ Market, on the North Hamilton plaza of the Capitol Square. These out-of-town “visitors” will be urging people to consider climate change in their voting choices, but all will transpire in an unexpected way. We would LOVE to have you join us, either to help hold a banner or to be a smiling face in the crowd. We also need help with tabling! This is a great opportunity to educate folks about 350 Wisconsin and the important work that we do.
- At 1:00 pm that same day, we invite all to participate in an Earth Day procession and rally with students from around Wisconsin. We’ll meet at East Campus Mall, march to Library Mall and then down State Street to a brief rally on the Capitol steps that will begin around 2:00 pm. We’d love to have as many folks as possible wearing “critter hats” to show our support for these young adults who are facing down the climate crisis with great resolve.
To join us for either of these events, please sign up here.
Earth Day March to the Capitol, 2023
Free Bad River Film Screenings!
Stevens Point, Wednesday, May 1
Wisconsin Lakes and Rivers Partnership and the UWSP Native American Center, along with 350 Wisconsin, are co-sponsoring free screenings of Bad River at the Dreyfus University Center Theater on Wednesday, May 1.
This powerful new documentary is a MUST SEE! It chronicles the Bad River Band’s monumental effort to save Lake Superior, the newest chapter in a 100+ year old story of resistance to environmental, industrial and governmental threats to their reservation, culture, and belonging. Read Bill McKibben’s review of the film here.
WHAT: Bad River documentary screenings
WHEN: Wednesday, May 1, 2024, 4:30 and 7:00 pm
WHERE: Dreyfus University Center Theater, 1015 Reserve St., Stevens Point, WI
COST: FREE!
RSVP: Here
Questions? Email Britnie at: britnie.remer@350wisconsin.org. All are welcome!
Tell the USACE:
Don’t Take Shortcuts on Line 5!
As far as national treasures go, the Great Lakes rank near the very top — there’s no question that these pristine freshwater lakes are a pillar in the survival of not just our region, but our planet. Every year, access to clean, fresh water diminishes due to drought, lack of rain, pollution, and more. So why would anyone ever gamble with 84% of North America’s surface freshwater?
Enbridge — a Canadian multinational oil company with a long track record of highly destructive environmental disasters and operator of the deteriorating 70-year-old Line 5 pipeline — is doing just that.
As they continue to run a dangerous, outdated tar sands oil pipeline, the company is seeking permission from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to reroute 41 miles of pipeline around the Bad River Band Reservation, where it has been operating illegally for over a decade, threatening tribal sovereignty and treaty rights.
It’s more clear now than ever — if we want the planet to continue to be livable, we have to stop our reliance on fossil fuels. This expansion is not a solution, and it’s far past time to #ShutDownLine5.
Please sign the petition to tell the USACE:
- Stop allowing Enbridge to gamble with the Great Lakes; and
- Conduct the most thorough environmental review possible.
Support Sustainability
on the UW–Madison Campus
Please sign the petition!
UW–Madison is engaged in a process of reimagining and redesigning the West Campus. The resulting West Campus District Plan will be implemented over the next 30 years. Public input is invited, and 350 Wisconsin is responding! We’ve launched a petition calling on the university and state policymakers to ensure that the plan meets the highest sustainability goals by, among other things, using carbon-neutral building and transportation design, restoring lakefront natural areas, and improving the quality of water entering the lake.
Please sign our petition here to support sustainability on the UW–Madison campus! Our goal is to get as many signatures as possible to deliver to the UW System Board of Regents and the Wisconsin State Building Commission. Please also share this message with friends — we need to let Wisconsin state officials know that we will not abide a “business as usual” approach to infrastructure changes on the UW–Madison campus!
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