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Welcome to Climate Chronicle
Photo by Rick Chamberlin “The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.” -Mignon McLaughlin This is not a manifesto. And yet, because this is my inaugural post, some background is in...
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Tipping the hat, expanding the ethic
“That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.” -Aldo Leopold Photo by Rick Chamberlin When I think about how I ended up here in Sauk County, I shake my head. Somehow...
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Our children call us home
Photo by Rick Chamberlin “The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.”...
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One woman’s conservation legacy: making it home with Jean Clausen
“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.” -Jane Goodall In previous posts I’ve written about the need to begin “making it home” again; that...
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A tale of two towers
“Look at these towers, passerby, and try to imagine what they really mean—what they symbolize—what they evoke.” -Elie Wiesel Photo by Rick Chamberlin This is a tale of two towers. Both stand near...
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If you want to swat global warming, reach for a newspaper
Photo by Hattie Chamberlin “The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril...
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When the chips are down: cow manure plentiful and cleaner than coal
Photo by Rick Chamberlin “They think they can make fuel from horse manure – now, I don’t know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it’s sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.”...
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Wisconsin’s sand county odyssey, part 1: seeing a world in a grain of sand —...
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wildflower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour… -William Blake, Auguries of Innocence (With thanks to Curt Meine, who...
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The hope cycle
“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.” -Ben Franklin Hope-sprung I was not raised Roman Catholic or brought up in a faith tradition of any sort. Nevertheless, one Lenten season about a decade ago...
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