The Door County Environmental Council presented “Healthy Lands, Healthy Water: Legal Pathways to a Just Wisconsin” with Adam Voskuil, Staff Attorney at Midwest Environmental Advocates (MEA). He discussed recent and pending lawsuits that could significantly influence environmental law and protection in Wisconsin. Click here to view the program.

The Door County Environmental Council hosted Kristy Senatori and Erin Perry from the Cape Cod Commission on June 4 at the Kress Pavilion in Egg Harbor, WI. Cape Cod, also a peninsular tourist destination, has faced many problems similar to Door County’s experiences, from water quality to affordable housing to over-tourism. Click here to watch the program.

Every Day is Earth Day booth with DCEC board members Robert Sijgers, Liz Hansen, Patty Pratapas, and Paul Leline.

Nate is the Ecosystem Scientist at the Savanna Institute in Madison, WI. He discusses the ecological benefits of agroforestry to help solve climate change, water pollution, and biodiversity loss. Nate also explains how our land’s actual capacity for using nutrients is incongruent with what producers are actually applying. Click here to watch the program.

Gina LaLiberte is the Statewide Harmful Algal Bloom Coordinator for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. She discussed harmful cyanobacterial blooms and Cladophora in Wisconsin and the Door Peninsula. Click here to watch a recording of her program.

Chris Jones is a retired research engineer from IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering from the University of Iowa focusing on water quality in agricultural landscapes. He is also the author of The Swine Republic, Struggles with Truth about Agriculture and Water Quality. Listen to the recording here.

Bill Davis is the Senior Legal Analyst with the River Alliance of Wisconsin. He discussed PFAS, lakebed, and DNR issues and the River Alliance’s work on water management and agriculture.

Authors P. David Allen and Susan Campbell led an invigorating discussion about the history behind the world’s largest environmental river cleanup of its kind: the $1.3 billion fix for widespread chemical contamination of the Fox River.