Dinner Lecture Series

Yahara 2070: Exploring the Future of the Yahara Watershed Steve Carpenter, Professor of Zoology, Director of the Center for Limnology at UW­-Madison and Recipient of the Stockholm Water Prize, which is often called the Nobel Prize for Water, will share with you the complex issues confronting the Yahara watershed and possible future conditions of our lakes, streams and watershed. Cost $35/person Register Register by May 17, 2017. Registration closed.

Join the Friends of Wisdom Prairie for their Annual Meeting and Dinner Lecture by photojournalist Michael Kienitz. Iceland's Vanishing Beauty  Michael Kienitz, an award winning photojournalist,  has been visiting Iceland for several years, recording, through photographs, the rapidly disappearing glaciers.  He uses "old timers" from Iceland to guide him into some very out of the way places.  The images are haunting and amazing and clear physical evidence of climate change.   Speaker: Michael Kienitz has been a photographer for more than 40 years. His traditional photography has appeared in Life, Time and Newsweek, and other major publications worldwide, his work has ...

Environmental Ethics of Indigenous Cultures of Wisconsin led by Patty Loew Enjoy dinner at the monastery and learn about the environmental ethics of the first people of this land. Speaker Patty Loew is a Professor of Journalism at Northwestern University and Director of Native American and Indigenous Research. Cost $40, includes dinner and lecture Registration Registration closed.  

The Friends of Pheasant Branch Conservancy and Friends of Wisdom Prairie join together to offer this dinner and panel discussion on the Virtues of Natural Land Management. The event will take place at Holy Wisdom Monastery.   Speakers Jeffrey Sledge will discuss the issues related to the health benefits of Natural Lands for volunteers and visitors who experience being in an ecological community. He is the Research Scientist and Director of the Health and Built Environment Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Susan Carpenter will address the benefits of restoring a whole ecological community for sustaining biological diversity and restoring ...