Interfaith Earth Network of Southeastern Wisconsin

09/05/2022

Happy Labor Day!

“Labour Day is an especially appropriate time to thank your local farmers who provide food for our communities. It is hard work to plant seeds, harvest food and raise livestock. It is hard work to get up each morning knowing that the economic security of your family is dependent upon the vagaries of weather and altered marketing outlets.” Dane Co Farmers Market Newsletter

05/18/2022

Spring on the farm. Meadowlark partners with FFFN. We use their pancake mix and flour for Markets and Meals brunches.

We managed to get 25 acres of white corn planted last night ahead of a much needed 1/4” of rain this AM. We would have preferred an inch, but after all the recent storms have been missing us, we will take whatever we can get. Cracks in the dry ground in May have been giving us flashbacks to last years droughty spring. The wheat will get through, but the millions of tiny clover and alfalfa seedlings all over the farm really appreciate the cool drink.

Spending a few morning hours away from the machinery and the bustle of spring crop work—checking on cows and calves, giving them new grass, listening to the munching of grass, the bobolinks, red winged blackbirds, orioles, and meadowlarks while checking fences—we’re too damn busy as usual, but every little spiritual recharge (like every quarter inch of rain) is welcome.

12/06/2021

Happy World Soil Day! 🤎 🌱

11/18/2021

Our Annual Fundraiser this year will be virtual and also presented in the evening of December 9th at 5:30 pm via ZOOM.
We ask that you register for this program by following the link:
https://interfaithconference.org/purchase-ticket/2/12-09-2021/4

To read about our featured speakers:
https://interfaithconference.org/51st-annual-virtual-fundraiser

The theme this year, "For Such a Time as This," (book title, courtesy of our special guest, Rev. Sharon Risher), was motivated by the staggering rise of hate crimes in the US. The FBI 2020 Hate Crime Statistics report, established in 1990, collects data on crimes that are evident of prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity. The report found there were 7,759 hate crime incidents reported last year which is just shy of the 7,783 reported in 2008, President Barack Obama’s election.

According to the most recent FBI data, Anti-Jewish, Anti-Black, and Anti-Muslim and Anti-Sikh hate crimes are all at much higher levels than the US national Average.Nearly 62% of the hate crimes reported in 2020 were incidents targeting racially and ethnically underrepresented groups. Of those crimes, anti-Black racism accounted for the most hate-based crimes.The report also shows a significant percentage of religion-motivated offenses. Last year, there were 1,244 victims of anti-religious hate crimes, with more than 60 percent of the offenders being motivated by anti-Jewish bias.Hate crimes against Muslim Americans are also at an all-time high nearly 20 years after 9/11. The past year, Muslim Americans data reports showing sharp declines in satisfaction with the country due to the recent political and national discourse.Also, according to an analysis of population size, Sikh Americans are the most disproportionately targeted group at a rate of four times the national average.

For the first time, the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee’s Pardeep Singh Kaleka will moderate an intimate conversation with Rev. Sharon Risher, Mother Emmanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, Rabbi Jeffery Meyers, Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburg, Jenan Mohajir, Interfaith & Muslim Rights Advocate, to highlight our interfaith commitment to respond to the growing tension that diverse religious, racial, and ethnic communities continue to face in the US.

We invite you to register and pre-post some of the most pressing questions you may have for the leaders of communities that have experienced some of the deadliest racial and religious based violence in recent history. The evening promises to be one of deep impact, inspiration, and hope.

Please join us and help us support the mission of the Interfaith Conference and our diverse faith partners and communities, "To Uphold the Dignity of Every Person and the Solidarity of the Human Community."

10/09/2021

"It’s a natural process where the body is returned to an elemental level over a short period of time."

Colorado just recently became the second state after Washington to allow human body composting.

10/08/2021

If citizens in construction-besotted Nashville can find the political will to preserve their trees, any city can.

10/07/2021

"The constant threat of wildfires has shifted my thoughts on what economic success looks like."

Samuel Naujokas said wildfires made him rethink his idea of success. "Maybe there's something wrong with" the value we give homeownership, he said.

10/06/2021

"It is said that you are the future, but in these matters, you are the present. You are those who are making the future today, in the present," the pontiff said.

Pope Francis addressed a gathering of youth climate activists Wednesday, thanking them for their concern about climate change and urging them to help build a "culture of care."

10/05/2021

Childhood lead exposure can lead to difficulties with learning, behavior, hearing, and speech.

Children under 6 living in pre-1950s housing or poorer communities are more likely to have elevated blood lead levels, which can lead to brain damage.

10/03/2021

The idea was to make a paint that would reflect sunlight away from a building.

The world's whitest paint has been created in a lab at Purdue, a paint so white that it could eventually reduce the need for air conditioning.

09/26/2021

Under the new law, 100% of in-state sales of new passenger cars and trucks will have zero emissions by 2035

The new law follows a similar one passed in California last year.

09/25/2021

The federal government hasn’t figured out how to respond to towns that are dying — most of all, whether to rebuild or just help people move.

Repeated extreme weather events fueled by climate change can cause financial collapse.