Tag Archives: Wisconsin

What’s on Your Plate? or, How to Visit Your Food

By CircleReader | October 25, 2008

One of the things that has blessed us in our time in this part of Wisconsin has been the chance to live close to our food. It’s not that we sat farther from our plates in the city where I grew up, of course; it’s that we sat further away from the land that was our food’s native home.

Posted in Reading Around | Also tagged Aldo Leopold, Ann Vileisis, Blanchardville, Catherine Gund, Circle M Farm, Cities, Food, Movies, Rick Sanger, Seasons, Stories, Thomas A. Lyson, Troy Community Farm | Leave a comment

The Hundred-Mile Diet Map and More

By CircleReader | May 22, 2008

A new map of food sources within a hundred miles of Madison, Wisconsin, shows kind of connection and sharing that will allow us as human societies to learn to be conscious of and take responsibility for the earthly places in which we live and move.

Posted in Local Life, Reading Around | Also tagged Barbara Kingslover, Circle M Market Farm, Clay Shirkey, Data Visualization, Deborah Madison, Digital Literacy, Education, Education Infrastructure, Food, Joel Salatin, Kavi Turnbull, Lifelong Learning, Local Food, Localism, Michael Pollan, Networks | 2 Comments

Sacrifices and Community

By Nicole Five Pennies | February 24, 2008

Do we even know how much we’ve lost, how poisoned we are, how far away we’ve been driven from the land? By connecting the science of toxic materials with our human knowledge of childbirth in Having Faith, Steingraber gives us new knowledge; what would it mean for us to inhabit it?

Posted in Having Faith, Science & Technology | Also tagged Coal, Community of Practice, Environment, Fish, Food, Having Faith, Health, Lead, Mercury, Polllution, Precautionary Principle, Pregnancy, Sacrifice, Sandra Steingraber, Traditional Knowledge | 1 Comment

Family, Heroes, and History

By CircleReader | February 12, 2008

One thing that Aldo Leopold did to become great was find, and use, his voice. His family was in many ways similar to mine and to thousands of others here in Wisconsin; his famous shack seemed completely familiar to us–just like Grandad’s place up north. But he made a difference in the world by figuring out what he had to say that was worth saying, and saying it wisely and well.

Posted in Continuing Stories | Also tagged Aldo Leopold, Aldo Leopold Legacy Center, Earth Day, Education, Energy, Environment, Heroes, History, Home School, Homer Daehn, Reading Leopold, Sand County Almanac | 2 Comments

Good Oak and Good History: Leopold’s “Sand County Almanac”

By CircleReader | December 19, 2007

Here, right here, is where it happened–the Leopold family and their farm, the acorn, the rabbits, the Civil War, the covered wagons (with all the Ingalls family times), the Great Depression, the dust bowl drouths, floods, storms, fires, extinctions, and acts of government; and the lightning, and the heat from the fire.

Posted in Continuing Stories, Having Faith | Also tagged Aldo Leopold, China, Education, Environment, Forest, Good Oak, History, Home School, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Reading Leopold, Sand County Almanac, StarLogo, University of Wisconsin | Leave a comment

Locals in a New Place - Reading Aldo Leopold

By CircleReader | August 9, 2007

The literacy of children thus follows the passions and engagements of the parents, and starts where they are.

Posted in Continuing Stories | Also tagged Aldo Leopold, Chicago, Cities, Education, Environment, Home School, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lawrence University, Madison, Nelson Algren, Reading Leopold, Stories, Stuart Dybek, Studs Terkel | Leave a comment

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Tag Archives: Wisconsin

What’s on Your Plate? or, How to Visit Your Food

The Hundred-Mile Diet Map and More

Sacrifices and Community

Family, Heroes, and History

Good Oak and Good History: Leopold’s “Sand County Almanac”

Locals in a New Place - Reading Aldo Leopold

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