Jim Winkle's Personal Home Page

Welcome to Jim Winkle's personal home page. This contains some of my interests, and a few pictures. I live in Madison, Wisconsin, which wins awards for livability.

Phone: 2 5 9 - 1 8 1 2
Cell: 3 3 4 - 7 2 5 1 (text preferred, or quick calls are ok; I have cheapo service [$7/month] and don't get many minutes)
E-mail: JimEventsGalore.net (you'll need to type this address into your e-mail program because the is a graphic which helps avoid SPAM).
Facebook: here.

Interests and Activities

• Work
  • I own a company called EventsGalore.net that:
    • Offers organizations the ability to easily put their calendar of events on the web.
    • Allows individuals the ability to subscribe to receive e-mail reminders of an organization's events.
    This helps organizations increase attendance at their events, and helps people find events in which they have an interest.
  • I work at UW-Madison's Division of Information Technology. I have a home page with my work schedule (I work 50% time), up-to-the-minute whereabouts, and work contact information.
• Environmental Issues. Global climate change is emerging as one of the most important issues of our time.
  • I give an interactive and fun talk entitled Potent Home Remedies for Global Warming where I cover some or all of the following:
    • The most effective solutions to global climate change (you might be surprised!), and how easy they are to attain without lowering our quality of life.
    • Several different ways to convert to renewable electricity. All the stars are lined up for going solar today, so I'll definitely cover that.
    • How to easily use less electricity.
    Are you associated with a group (work, neighborhood, church, or friends) that would be interested in hearing this? Contact me (see top of page) and we'll organize a session. Just interested for yourself? I'll let you know when the next public one is. I currently give this talk for free in the Madison area.
  • In April 2007, we converted to solar and generate 100% of our electricity. I wrote two articles about this.
  • We own a tankless water heater which uses less natural gas, has a long lifetime, and is 100% recyclable. I wrote an article about this.
• Neighborhood Issues
  • Participated in the team that came up with NeighborNation.net, which helped people in neighborhoods connect. We launched July 4, 2004, and shut it down six years later because of technical issues.
  • In a small team, developed extensive web pages for the Bay Creek neighborhood.
  • Helped start Quann Community Garden, which has about 100 plots in one acre.
  • Member of Friends of Olin-Turville. This park contains more undisturbed shoreline than any other park in Madison, which makes for great for skiing and hiking.
• Food! Hey, who isn't interested in food? I'm interested in (and still learning about) foodsystems, especially organic, locally produced food to promote sustainable agriculture for the health of the planet and the people on it. I've been a vegetarian since about 1986. I'm a member of Madison Fruits and Nuts.
• Biking, especially bike touring. Here are some nice bike rides I designed; join me on these this summer! Also helped create an urban orchard as a memorial to an experienced biker who died from injuries sustained when she was struck by an inattentive driver.
• I must be getting old... I've started doing geneology for the Winkle clan.
• I must be getting old... I've started playing bridge. I'm looking to play with people who bid like I do. Let me know if that's you! I can sometimes be found in one of the Intermediate or Advanced rooms on Yahoo.
• Contra dancing. Here's the Madison dance schedule.
• Music, listening anyway. I'd love to learn an instrument some day.
• Gardening.
• Camping, hiking, windsurfing, cross-country skiing... though there's hardly any time to do these anymore (I need an early retirement :)
• Cancer. Both parents and a sister had cancer. I've made lots of changes in my life to try to avoid it. Ask me about them if you're interested.

Pictures