Sustainability

Hilldale Lecture: Jeannine Cavender-Bares

Plant diversity, spectral biology and giving back to a planet in crisis

5 p.m.

145 Birge Hall

Weston Roundtable: Clear Cut: Burning Forests for Energy Doesn’t Stack Up

Speaker: Bob Musil, President & CEO, Rachel Carson Council

4:15-5:15 p.m.

1163 Mechanical Engineering Building

Volunteer in the UW Lakeshore Nature Preserve

Help care for this beloved campus natural area

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Frautschi Point parking lot on Lake Mendota Drive. On the 80 bus route.

Ecological Restoration Work Party

Arboretum Core Area and Curtis Prairie

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Meet at Visitor Center, UW–Madison Arboretum

Forest Bathing

UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve

1-3 p.m.

Frautschi Point parking lot on Lake Mendota Drive. On the 80 bus route.

Design Challenge + Henry Vilas Zoo - Orientation Night!

Orientation night is on Monday (10/10) from 5-7, where we will have pizza, team formations, and project presentations.

2-7 p.m.

UW Makerspace, Wendt Commons

Energy Prices and the Inflation Reduction Act

Forward in Energy Forum: How the Inflation Reduction Act might affect energy affordability, especially for everyday Wisconsinites

4:45-6 p.m.

1115 Wisconsin Energy Institute
Also offered online

Weston Roundtable: Improving Agricultural Water Use Sustainability with Cutting-Edge Technologies

Speaker: Yi Wang, Assistant Professor of Horticulture, UW-Madison

4:15-5:15 p.m.

1163 Mechanical Engineering Building

Ecological Restoration Work Party

Arboretum Grady Tract

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Meet at Grady Tract parking lot (SE corner Seminole Hwy & W Beltline Frontage Rd), UW–Madison Arboretum

The Colors of Fall

Arboretum Garden Tour

1-3 p.m.

Meet at Visitor Center, UW–Madison Arboretum

Student research on sustainable agriculture and food systems

CIAS minigrant awardees

All day

121 Babcock Hall

Climate Fast Forward

Accelerating Transformational Change

8 a.m.-6 p.m.

Monona Terrace

Dairy Innovation Hub faculty seminar

Joe Sanford explores solutions for agricultural wastewater, air quality, and odor management.

12:05-1 p.m.

1111 Meat Science & Animal Biologics Discovery

Weston Roundtable: Sustainable Development: From Concept to Curriculum

Speaker: Lawrence Bove, President & CEO, Weston Solutions Inc

4:15-5:15 p.m.

1163 Mechanical Engineering Building

Ecological Restoration Work Party

Arboretum Core Area and Curtis Prairie

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Meet at Visitor Center, UW–Madison Arboretum

Volunteer in the UW Lakeshore Nature Preserve

Help care for this beloved campus natural area

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Picnic Point entrance kiosk, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000 University Bay Drive, Madison WI 53705

Poetry in the Preserve: A walk down the “It’s In Our Nature” audio trail

UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve

1:30-3 p.m.

Picnic Point entrance kiosk, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000 University Bay Drive, Madison WI 53705

Student research on sustainable agriculture and food systems

CIAS minigrant awardees

All day

121 Babcock Hall

UW–Madison Sustainability Symposium

1-5:30 p.m.

Discovery Building

Weston Roundtable: The Extractive Realities Behind Low-Carbon Infrastructures

Speaker: Alexander Dunlap, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo

4:15-5:15 p.m.

1163 Mechanical Engineering Building

Student research on sustainable agriculture and food systems

CIAS minigrant awardees

All day

121 Babcock Hall

Power and Water

The confluence of energy development and activism on Tribal Lands

4:30-6 p.m.

1115 Wisconsin Energy Institute
Also offered online

Weston Roundtable: Energy Systems: How They Work and Why It Matters

Speaker: John Perkins, Member of the Faculty Emeritus, The Evergreen State College

4:15-5:15 p.m.

1163 Mechanical Engineering Building

Ecological Restoration Work Party

Arboretum Wingra Oak Savanna

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Meet at Arbor Dr parking lot (off Monroe St), UW–Madison Arboretum

Volunteer in the UW Lakeshore Nature Preserve

Help care for this beloved campus natural area

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Picnic Point entrance kiosk, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000 University Bay Drive, Madison WI 53705

Ecological Restoration Work Party

Arboretum Core Area and Curtis Prairie

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Meet at Visitor Center, UW–Madison Arboretum

Geologic History of the Preserve and Madison Lakes

UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve

1-3 p.m.

Raymer's Cove parking lot, 2900 Lake Mendota Dr., Madison, WI 53705

Dairy Summit hybrid conference

Presented by the Dairy Innovation Hub

9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

UW–River Falls, University Center, 501 Wild Rose Ave., River Falls, WI 54022
Also offered online

Volunteer in the UW Lakeshore Nature Preserve

Help care for this beloved campus natural area

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Picnic Point entrance kiosk, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000 University Bay Drive, Madison WI 53705

Ecological Restoration Work Party

Arboretum Grady Tract

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Meet at Grady Tract parking lot (SE corner Seminole Hwy & W Beltline Frontage Rd), UW–Madison Arboretum

Ecological Restoration Work Party

Arboretum Core Area and Curtis Prairie

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Meet at Visitor Center, UW–Madison Arboretum

Fun Fall Birding

UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve

1:30-3 p.m.

Picnic Point entrance kiosk, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000 University Bay Drive, Madison WI 53705

Weston Roundtable:WICCI Infrastructure Panel on Climate Change, Sustainability, and Infrastructure

Speaker: WICCI Infrastructure Working Group

4:15-5:15 p.m.

1163 Mechanical Engineering Building

Volunteer in the UW Lakeshore Nature Preserve

Help care for this beloved campus natural area

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Frautschi Point parking lot on Lake Mendota Drive. On the 80 bus route.

Weston Roundtable: Deep Mitigation Pathways Underlying the Science-Policy Interface of Climate Change

Speaker: Matt Gidden, Senior Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Energy, Climate, and Environment Program

4:15-5:15 p.m.

1163 Mechanical Engineering Building

Winter Waterfowl Wonder

UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve

1-3 p.m.

UW Parking Lot 60 at North end of Walnut Street

Friends’ Favorite Places

UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve

1:30-3 p.m.

Picnic Point entrance kiosk, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000 University Bay Drive, Madison WI 53705