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Urban Ecology Podcast

May 31, 2021

This is our second episode in a mini-series focusing on how local governments can provide public green spaces. In the City of Milwaukee, there is a clear history for this work. Around the time the Urban Ecology Center was moving into a new building in Riverside Park in 2004, leaders in the area helped Mayor Tom Barrett...


May 17, 2021

In this episode, we meet Chairwoman Marcelia Nicholson of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors (https://www.facebook.com/SupervisorNicholson and http://milwaukee.gov/Nicholson) to learn about her passion for urban ecology. This is the first in a two-part series on municipal government partnerships....


May 3, 2021

This episode completes our initial 4-part series on environmental education. Throughout this series, we have seen how programming at the Urban Ecology Center makes connections to environmental learning for children in school groups and for community members of all ages. We have seen the dynamic ways that the community...


Apr 12, 2021

In this episode -- the third in our 4-part series on environmental education -- we take a dive into another component of the ecosystem of education at the Urban Ecology Center: Community Programs. In conversation with educators Erin and José, our podcast interviewer Tim explores the meaning of community through the...


Mar 22, 2021

In the second episode of our 4-part series on environmental education, we visit winter Forest Camp in Riverside Park. Two educators and about a dozen kids on piles of snow and around a campfire tell us what it takes to have fun and learn outdoors in a Wisconsin winter. Along the way, we encounter animal tracks,...