Essays
Eric Hansen’s op-ed essays reflect a bedrock belief that thoughtful conservation consciousness leads to healthy ecosystems -- and is as fundamental to the wellness of our world as treating people, all people, with respect.
Samples:
A Place Where Water Sparkles
A Wisconsin water meditation - link to 3 minute audio and text on WUWM
Big Questions for Milwaukee's Harbor (pdf)
Is a petroleum products terminal the future we want for Milwaukee's lakefront?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Weyauwega train disaster still resonates (pdf)
Wisconsin State Journal
Block Tar Sands Projects in Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel link
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel link
Enormous Mine, Enormous Consequences
Penokee Mine proposal is a pivotal moment.
Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel(PDF)
350: What We Need to Save the Planet
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (PDF)
Wisconsin Waters Threatened by Tar Sands Crude Oil Expansion
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel link
It was a big trout. A good trout. A good, big trout.
Metallic sulfide mine proposals in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
threaten
the iconic Coaster Brook Trout.
Chicago Tribune (PDF)
Winter is Lake Michigan's showiest and finest hour
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (PDF)
Also link to WUWM Lake Effect audio
Copenhagen, Climate Change and Common Sense
Conservation in Wisconsin
Lake Effect program on WUWM public radio
Read a version (PDF) that ran in the Madison Cap Times newspaper.
Tar Sands Protest:
'When Ordinary People do Extraordinary Things'
Essay ran on Lake Effect program on WUWM public radio
Read it as it ran on Common Dreams (PDF)
Behind Wisconsin’s Wildlife Story:
A Remarkable Migration of the Human Heart
Essay ran on Lake Effect program on WUWM public radio
Read a version that ran in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper (PDF)
Penokee Range in Wisconsin
