Friday May 22, 2026
The City of Milwaukee is entertaining a bid to turn Midtown Shopping Center into a Data Center. The community hearing was scheduled for May 18 and will be rescheduled for a date in June. – from Sherman Park Community Association
Residents seek more information on Midtown Center development as data center concerns continue
Friday May 15, 2026
A New Book: Climate Wayfinding: Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home by Katharine K. WilkinsonWhen maps come up short and the path ahead is uncertain, how do we find our way? Visionary climate leader Katharine K. Wilkinson offers a compassionate and empowering guide to navigating from ache to action, doubt to possibility. “There’s an enormous amount of learning from many years of climate work condensed into this invaluable book–wisdom about what to do, how to do it, and in what spirit. It will be so much help to so many!” –Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun
Through transformational programs and books, including the national bestseller All We Can Save, Wilkinson has inspired hundreds of thousands of climate journeys. In Climate Wayfinding, she shares a proven process for looking inward with care, outward with curiosity, and forward with courage. Ultimately, readers chart a course toward playing their unique part in our collective healing.
With her singular blend of warmth and rigor, Wilkinson lights the way through stirring personal essays, interwoven with the wisdom of other climate leaders and the beauty of poetry, art, and song. A book to sit with and savor, Climate Wayfinding also invites engagement with journaling prompts, practical exercises, and guides for conversation.
Whether steeped in climate or newly curious, readers will discover something grounding and generative in these pages. The terrain ahead is calling–and we have everything we need to find our way.
Friday, May 8, 2026
This week’s article is “Despite Unprecedented Challenges, Clean Energy Is Still Growing in the U.S. The future Is More Uncertain.” It is a good summary of the gains and setbacks in the journey towards clean energy.
wri.org/insights/clean-energy-progress-united-states
Friday, May 1, 2026
I have a double feature multi media green link for this week!
The theme for this week is using laminated timber for large scale projects. We traditionally think of using wood for buildings as being bad for the environment due to deforestation. But the material sourcing and supply chains needed for steel and concrete superstructures are not only worse for the environment, but they utilize largely unrenewable sources.
The first link talks about how using wood laminate as a building material is more environmentally sustainable. The second link is a Vox video detailing the building of the world’s tallest wood laminate skyscraper, which happens to be right here in Milwaukee!
WBUR: Is Laminated Timber the Material of Future Skylines?
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/04/15/laminated-timber-construction
Vox: How to Build a Wood Skyscraper
https://youtu.be/2qry7AmdIn8?si=ry92XYLmnH3djezE
