March 2019

The Next Energy Economy: Grassroots Strategies to Mitigate Global Climate Change and How We Move Ahead

April 11, 2019
The 2019 Dean’s Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities welcomes Winona LaDuke, Program Director of Honor the Earth. Learn how local projects on indigenous lands are helping establish the next energy economy. From solar to wind to localized food production, the White Earth reservation is moving ahead in creating a more sustainable future. Reception at 6:00 pm and lecture at 6:30 pm in UWM Curtin Hall, Room 175

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.