Articles by Nicholaus Wiberg

Participants, volunteers and community organizers gathered at round tables with food, refreshments, notepads and business cards for networking at Milwaukee Area Technical College’s downtown campus in late April. With their first Milwaukee Food Justice Summit, the Milwaukee Food Council hosted a public event to foster a dialogue on food justice and to envision a way […]

In Madison, at the University of Wisconsin, Steve Vavrus, 57, works two professional roles as the director of the Wisconsin State Climatology Office and co-director of the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI) [pronounced like Wiki]. Both positions are part of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, and WICCI is also in statewide collaboration […]

Every year in Greendale, Wisconsin people celebrate winter holidays with a public outing called A Dickens of a Village, where all the village shops open their doors and vendors host tables and tents with games, crafts and food. During the celebration, community members play a live enactment of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Story, and part […]

In Chicago, the Community Food Navigator gathered people to celebrate a just food system, grow new relationships and get seeds started for urban growing spaces.

The Chicago food justice community address food sovereignty, waste reduction, Green Ramadan and public land access for growing food.

Cryptocurrency in Milwaukee is spent in stores with debit cards, used online for purchasing movie tickets, bought with USD cash through third parties at CVS Pharmacy and traded at kiosks in suburban shopping malls. Cryptocurrency put financial control in the hands of individuals instead of banks, lenders and government. Organizations like Coinbase and Blockfi are […]

Milwaukee artistic interventions were created inside the Milwaukee County Courthouse, the Milwaukee Public Library’s (MPL) Mitchell Street Branch and an exterior wall of Woodland Pattern bookstore on East Locust Street. The 35-years-old transdisciplinary artist Erick “CK” Ledesma Borrero, from Levittown, Puerto Rico, which is in the municipality of Toa Baja, collaborated these artistic interventions. Ledesma’s […]

Father Michael Bertram, a member in the Capuchin Franciscans, for 18 years served as pastor at St. Francis of Assisi in Milwaukee, a historic facility located on North Vel R. Phillips Avenue and West Brown Avenue. There he helped people in need, fed those who are hungry and spoke the Word of God. St. Francis […]

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic church in Milwaukee welcomed the LGTBQ community, started ministries for Puerto Ricans and Spanish speakers during the 1950s, as well as ministries for Black people, and helped German immigrants during the early 20th century. At North Vel R. Philips Ave and West Brown Street, St. Francis of Assisi church was […]

Puerto Rico’s Yaucromatic, in Yauco, was an urban art intervention that started in 2017, which promoted economic growth, attracted tourism and reimagined vulnerable communities that were suppressed by class, prone to crime and had poor living conditions. The intervention was developed by Jonathan Hernandez Leon, a community organizer and president of the not-for-profit organization Arte […]

In Greendale, Erin Dummert owns Field Workshop, a tinker lab and do-it-yourself maker space. Her official title is Chief Tinkerer, and her space is open for creative projects, painting classes, home school enrichment and art-themed parties. Nicholaus Wiberg checked it out.

The Hip-Hop Chess Club of Wisconsin started four years ago, and operated out the back of a West Allis bar that was called Only on Tuesdays, then moved to Flip n Styles barber shop at South Eighth Street and West National Avenue until the pandemic interrupted meetings and events. “Covid hit and we just haven’t […]