Eric Klister

The Loka Initiative is a new education and outreach program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for faith leaders and religious institutions.

“Folks can easily see and understand how tropical deforestation removes carbon from the landscape and emits it to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide,” says Seth Spawn of the University of Wisconsin–Madison

Grace has been an MS student in the Nelson Institute Environment & Resources and a student in the Energy Analysis and Policy Program, and she is the 2018-2019 SAGE Weston Fellow, and a recipient of a 2018 Global Health Institute Award.

Holly Gibbs’ work was featured on p. 20 in “Fueling Discovery”, a multi-page feature highlighting work in UW-Madison’s College of Letters and Sciences.

Jonathan Patz presented the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement to Dr. Michael Mann.

Amintas Brandao Jr. was awarded Arthur B. Sacks Award for Graduate Excellence in Environmental Studies and Sustainability!

Seth was just awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) for his work on “Finding space for diversification in US agriculture.”

Seth Spawn, GLUE/SAGE PhD student, was awarded the Department of Geography’s 2019 Olmstead Award for outstanding publication for his recent paper in Environmental Research Letters on Carbon emissions from cropland expansion in the United States. 

According to a new study by University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers, we know that saving energy also saves lives and even more money for consumers by alleviating the costs of adverse health effects attributed to air pollution.

Research performed in the Ethiopian highlands by SAGE scientists Michael Eggen and Mutlu Ozdogan shows that even in years with above average rainfall, crops can be severely reduced by drought early in the growing season, when seeds must sprout and get established.