Meetings and Events at DCEC

Here are some of our past events

Roger Kuhns

Urban Agriculture

We are proud to bring Dr. Kuhns back to Crossroads to educate city and rural dwellers about the concepts that enable urban homeowners to create food generation within the neighborhoods where they live, creating a direct source for their own fresh-grown food. Increasingly brownfield areas are often being utilized for common-shared gardening that benefits the neighborhood residents with direct consumer food sources not available previously.

John Peck

Family Farm Defenders

The Fight Against Factory Farms

Large scale operations become the focal point of community opposition. Factory farms are in direct competition for rental land and force rental prices upward. The emerging food system is based increasingly on factory farms. It displaces small family farms with food produced under industrial conditions, and relies on legions of low-wage workers. Factory Farms practice "confined animal feeding operations", when thousands of animals are penned up in confined spaces under constant artificial light.

What Would Fighting Bob Say?

DCEC's 41st Summer Progam

Ed Garvey

Founder of the State-Wide Fighting Bob Lafollette Fest, Author of "Bidding For Power", Contributor to Capitol Times newspaper and the FightingBob.com website, he will focus on Wisconsin and national issues from an environmental perspective. His law firm has represented communities that have been fighting factory farms, Wal Mart Stores and coal burning utilities, while actively promoting social and economic justice.

Wisconsin Environmental Memories

DCEC's 40th Anniversary Summer Progam

Jerry Apps, Keynote Speaker
Author and Television Personality
Jerry's written over 30 books on Wisconsin and it's rural life. He's appeared on NPR, PBS, A&E and the Discovery Channel

Underground in Door County

Dr. Ken Bradbury, UW Madison
School of Hydrology

Ken is considered our state/s leading expert on fractured rock geology. He'll be speaking on how our Door County's underground rocky structures affect us.

Learn about Door County up close and personal!

Great Lakes Asian Carp Threat

Phil Moy, PhD, UW Seagrant Institute
Wisconsin's foremost expert on the Asian Carp problem will provide a timely update of information, concerns and research results.
The Asian Carp's DNA is in Lake Michigan. Can these monsters of the deep be far behind?

A seminar on Purchased Development Rights as a tool for preserving wild spaces. The featured speaker will be Vicki Elkin, policy director of the Gathering Waters Conservancy, Madison, Wisconsin.