Erika Janik

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Environmental Issues and Green Living

Our First Time: Governor's Island (The Onion, 11 June 2010)

Back to Nature, Without Leaving the City (The Onion, 2 September 2009)


On Wisconsin Film Festival: Green Constructs (The Onion, 28 March 2009)
Film review of "The Greening of Southie"


Get Out While You Still Can: Naturetainment (The Onion, 13 November 2008)
Things to do before winter stops you.


Lean, Green, Fitness Machines (Isthmus, 22 August 2008)

You'd never leave your air conditioner, music, lights and television going all day, but this happens 12 to 24 hours a day at many workout facilities.


Easy Riders (Isthmus, 22 August 2008)

Wayne Thompson hopes Kind Bike will jolt the bicycle industry into rethinking its ways. His Kind Bike is a Madison-based bicycle company that builds social and environmental responsibility into its products.


Wisconsin's First Green Tourists (Wisconsin Trails, April 2008)


Put one foot in front of the other (Isthmus, 25 January 2008)

They say that if you can walk, you can hike. Clearly, "they" don't live in Wisconsin in the winter, when even an innocent stroll down the sidewalk is often compromised by human-size snowdrifts, meat-locker temperatures and ice.

Plight of the Honeybees (Wisconsin Trails, April 2007)

Travel Green Wisconsin (Wisconsin Trails, January/February 2007)

New Face of Farming (Curb Magazine, Fall 2006)

Don't tell Kristin Kordet there's no future in farming...



Ignorance Seen as Wetlands' Big Enemy

(Wisconsin State Journal, 3 February 2006)