Listen to this Person & Planet Podcast - a live recording from the Next Gen MKE event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 15, 2024. The Sustainability & Smart Cities panel, hosted by Stephanie Krubsack - Purevant Living, featured panelists: Janet Silbernagel…
Janet Silbernagel BalsterSeptember 27, 2024
Every place has a story. What if we could harness the analytical power of geographic software (GIS) for mapping space, with the rich, experiential qualities of place? And what if communities could write their own narrative? Such spatial narratives could…
Janet Silbernagel BalsterJune 10, 2022
Janet was one of the key contributing instructors to this online course in landscape ecology produced by ETH-Zurich and WSL in Switzerland, with nearly 12,000 enrolled since 2018 from around the world.
Janet Silbernagel BalsterMarch 24, 2022
Could Cooperative Conservation be a Fix for Rural Land Demand? Many of Aldo Leopold's writings are remarkably timeless. He also modeled practices that today are major disciplines like wildlife ecology and restoration ecology. Rogue Amur maple sapling in Curtis Prairie,…
Janet Silbernagel BalsterMarch 11, 2021
In late February 2020 I attended my last professional meeting in person before the COVID shutdown: the 2020 Geodesign Summit at Esri Headquarters in Redlands, CA. I gave the very last talk on the last day of the Summit. My…
Janet Silbernagel BalsterJanuary 27, 2021
The Finish In the final edition I go to two segments distant from each other and distinct in their own way: Holy Hill and Madison. Read the finish to my Mammoth Hike Challenge in this Story Map . After raving…
Janet Silbernagel BalsterDecember 4, 2020
When my family asked what I wanted to do for my birthday on the 10th, I knew. I wanted to do the Gibraltar Rock segment with them before going out to dinner nearby. So I skipped north knowing that this…
Janet Silbernagel BalsterNovember 30, 2020
I switched to using 'Edition' rather than 'Week' for the supplements to this story because my series of hikes was not linear in days and directions. I didn't consistently go from one segment to the next in a north-south or…
Janet Silbernagel BalsterNovember 23, 2020
The Table Bluff segments were kind of my warm up: close to home, familiar. Since I didn’t have a hiking partner to shuttle a car, I did it in two sections back and forth: Swamp Lovers and Hoverstrom Preserve on…
Janet Silbernagel BalsterNovember 19, 2020