UW Gaia Project Overview

The UW Gaia Project is an action-learning community for faculty and academic staff who are concerned about issues related to sustainability and global climate change. The Project offers participants the opportunity to learn about these critical issues and to take action on a personal, professional, campus, and community levels to address them.

The Gaia Project is an initiative of the University Committee in cooperation with the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the WE Conserve program at UW. It has grown out of a broad-based concern across the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus about the potential far-reaching consequences of global climate change for ourselves, our students, our university, and our communities.

To focus this concern, the Gaia Project will organize a number of action-learning groups to mobilize concerned faculty and staff.