Tag Archives: climate change

Name: Natural Path Sanctuary Walking Tour with NPS Cemeterian Dustin Duve
Start: 2024-05-21T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-05-21T12:00:00+00:00
Location: Farley Center

Making a Planet-Friendly Farm Bill

climate change, culture, environmental, farming, food, health, justice, Peace, sustainable farming

Feb. 12, 2024

Making a Planet-Friendly Farm Bill

The federal Farm Bill isn’t just vitally important to farmers, it impacts every American community—urban, suburban and rural. This massive legislation shapes national policies dealing with everything from nutrition and hunger to climate change and natural resource conservation. Hear how a new Farm Bill can be turned into a force promoting agricultural practices that are good for farmers, the land, air and water quality, consumers, and future prospects for life on our planet. Find out what you can do to influence what the next Farm Bill ends up looking like.

SPEAKERS

Darin Von Ruden is a third-generation dairy farmer who is president of Wisconsin Farmers Union. Darin has been active with Farmers Union at the local, state and national levels and is a seven-time recipient of the Silver Star Award, National Farmers Union’s highest recognition of membership development. He and his wife JoAnn live in Westby and transitioned the farm to the fourth generation when their son Brett purchased the machinery and 50-cow dairy herd.

Margaret Krome has spent over 30 years developing federal and state programs and policies supporting sustainable agriculture. Margaret’s interest in agriculture dates back to her childhood, as the grandchild of a Florida avocado and citrus grower. She is policy program director at Michael Fields Agriculture Institute and previously worked for the Wisconsin Rural Development Center.

Mike McCabe is a member of a team promoting regenerative agriculture for the climate action group 350 Wisconsin. Mike got his start milking cows and working the land on his family’s farm before going on to lead the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign for nearly two decades and establish the grassroots group Blue Jean Nation. During a two-year stint in the Peace Corps, he served as an agriculture education adviser in the West African country of Mali.

HOSTED BY
Farley Center for Peace, Justice, and Sustainability
Southwest Wisconsin Area Progressives (SWWAP)
Brix Cider
Blue Jean Nation
350 Wisconsin

Our Changing Climate with Bob Lindmeier

climate change, community, culture, environmental, Wisconsin

5/4/24

“Our Changing Climate: The Science, the Consequences and the Solutions.” Presentation: 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Bob Lindmeier, Chief Meteorologist for WKOW Channel 27

Event Flyer

Hosting Organizations

Linda and Gene Farley Center for Peace, Justice & Sustainability
https://farleycenter.org/

Citizens Climate (CCL) Lobby
https://citizensclimatelobby.org/chapters/WI_Madison/

Co-Sponsors:

Southwest Wisconsin Area Progressives (SWWAP)
http://swwap.org/

Natural Path Sanctuary
http://naturalpathsanctuary.org

Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)
https://psr.org/

350 Wisconsin
https://350wisconsin.org/

Wisconsin Environmental Health Network (WEHN)
https://www.wehnonline.org/

Bob Lindmeier, Chief Meteorologist for WKOW Channel 27 will come to the Farley Center for Peace, Justice and Sustainability on Saturday, May 4, 2024 to discuss our changing local climate, what to expect in the future, and a clear plan of action to minimize the risk to our economy and way of life. Bob, with support from WKOW, often mentions climate change during his broadcast and is a frequent public speaker on the topic.

Bob earned his B.S. Degree in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1979. He started his career in 1980 at Weather Central, a weather consulting firm based in Madison. While at Weather Central, Bob observed the debut of the first television graphics system based on an Apple personal computer. Over the years at Weather Central he would witness the rapid development of new generations of graphics systems that revolutionized the television broadcast industry.

Weather Central also provided broadcast services to WKOW-TV in Madison. Through the 1980s, Bob presented weathercasts in the mornings and weekends. He was awarded the American Meteorological Society Broadcast Seal of Approval in 1987, and then became the Chief Meteorologist at WKOW-TV in 1989, a position he has held ever since. Bob produces and presents the weathercasts on the 5, 6, and 10 PM newscasts, Monday through Friday.

Bob believes strongly in climate change education, and has given numerous presentations to school, civic, and faith-based groups. He is a member of Citizen’s Climate Lobby, a non-profit and non-partisan organization focused on national policies to address climate change. Bob is married and has three children and two grandchildren.

Farley Center Volunteer Day in the Food Forest!

climate change, community, culture, environmental, food forest, friendship, fun, fundraiser, gardening

5/24/22

Please join us as we work on the Farley Center Food Forest with the Wisconsin Food Forest Volunteers. Outdoor work includes planting and weeding. Hopefully we’ll have mulch to spread. Please dress for outdoor weather and bring work gloves and water bottles.
Please meet front of the red packing shed at 5:25.

If you have any questions or want to sign up, please e-mail .
FARLEY CENTER ON SITE SUPERVISOR
Kalev Kristjuhan – Natural Path Sanctuary Asst.

Full – NPS – Morning Walking Tour

climate change, community, death, dying, environmental, Green Cemetaries, NPS, woods

Due to COVID- 19 and the safety of all attendees, we are LIMITING this tour to SIX PEOPLE ONLY. You must reserve a spot by e-mailing or calling the Farley Center at 608-845-8724.

Come take a walk through the Natural Path Sanctuary and learn about green burial.

Farley Center Director and Natural Path Sanctuary (NPS) Coordinator Shedd Farley will give a walking tour presentation of the Natural Path Sanctuary. Meet at the big bur oak tree near the red packing shed at the Farley Center at 7:00 a.m.. Please wear good walking shoes and dress appropriately for the weather. Please check back on the facebook page for any changes due to the weather.

THIS IS AN OUTDOOR PRESENTATION – THERE WILL NOT BE A PRESENTATION IN THE CENTER. THE FARLEY CENTER BUILDING IS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC BUT THERE ARE PORT A POTTIES FOR USE.

If you would like to set up a Natural Path Sanctuary walking tour for a max. of 6 on a different day, please contact to arrange.

Full – NPS – Early Morning Walking Tour

climate change, community, death, dying, environmental, Green Cemetaries, NPS, woods

Due to COVID- 19 and the safety of all attendees, we are LIMITING this tour to SIX PEOPLE ONLY. You must reserve a spot by e-mailing or calling the Farley Center at 608-845-8724.

Come take a walk through the Natural Path Sanctuary and learn about green burial.

THIS IS AN OUTDOOR PRESENTATION – THERE WILL NOT BE A PRESENTATION IN THE CENTER. THE FARLEY CENTER BUILDING IS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC BUT THERE ARE PORT A POTTIES FOR USE.

If you would like to set up a Natural Path Sanctuary walking tour for a max. of 6 on a different day, please contact to arrange.

Sanctuary: Environmental Land Art at the Farley Center

art, climate change, community, create, culture, environmental, friendship

The Farley Center presents an art exhibition at the Overture Center.

Artist reception on Friday, Sept. 28 from 6:00-8:00. Enjoy light refreshments and music by WYSO Madison Music Makers while exploring the exhibit and meeting many of the participating artists.

“Sanctuary: Environmental Land Art at the Farley Center” exhibit is a photographic tour of these art installations. It will be on display in the Playhouse Gallery at the Overture Center for the Arts September 7-October 28, 2018.

Using natural materials from the land, area artists were invited to be inspired, expand creative boundaries, play with mystery, initiate surprise, explore and celebrate our connection to the earth. The theme was “Sanctuary” which could be interpreted however the artists chose. Sixteen artists took on the challenge and created a variety of pieces on the outdoor grounds of the Natural Path Sanctuary at the Farley Center near Verona, WI the summer of 2017.

ARTISTS
Dave Carlson, Jessica Luer, Betsy Delzer, Drew McCoy, Michael Duffy, Karen Reppen, Patrick Flynn, Cynthia Reynolds, Beverly Gordon, Bobbette Rose, Chris Hindle, Jane Scharer, Lewis Koch, John Scharer, Katrina Krueger, Sue Schuetz

EXHIBITION PHOTOGRAPHER
Barry Sherbeck

The Farley Center thanks Dane Arts, the Dane County Board of Supervisors and private funders for their generous support of this exhibition including funds from the Endres Mfg.Company Foundation, the Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of the The Capital Times, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation.

Farley Center also thanks the Overture Center for the Arts for inviting us to exhibit in the Playhouse Gallery and helping us make this show a reality.

Normal is Over (film)

climate change, community, environmental, justice, solutions

A film by Renée Scheltema
Tues. Aug. 8, 7:30
You need to reserve tickets at https://gathr.us/screening/20133 by July 30

Award-winning feature documentary about humanity’s wisest responses to climate change, species extinction, resource depletion and the widening gap between the rich and poor.
First film connecting the dots: A look at the financial and economical paradigm underlying our planetary problems, while offering various SOLUTIONS to reverse the path of global decline. Learn more about the film

Sponsors helping to bring this film to Madison:

Farley Center for Peace, Justice & Sustainability
350 Madison Climate Action Team
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice
Blue Jean Nation