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 occasionally wins awards for livability.

Phone: 2 5 9 - 1 8 1 2
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).

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 warming (you might be surprised!), and how easy they are to attain without lowering your quality of life.
    • How to convert to renewable electricity.
    • 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. I wrote an article about this.
• Raising Kailee
  • Since late 1995, I have worked part time so that I can be actively involved in parenting our daughter.
• Neighborhood Issues
  • Participating in the team that came up with NeighborNation.net, which helps people in neighborhoods connect.
  • 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.
• 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.
• Biking, especially bike touring. Helped create an urban orchard (completed in 2008) as a memorial to a terrific biking woman 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 for a partner who plays 5 card majors, convenient minors, strong 2's, 2 clubs artificial, stayman, and blackwood (maybe transfers). Let me know if that's you! I can sometimes be found in the Social room 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
  • My mom passed away from cancer in March, 1997.
  • My dad was diagnosed with cancer in February, 1999, and doing great!
  • My sister Wendy passed away from cancer in October, 2003 (identified in October, 2000). Here's a web site for her.

  I've made lots of changes in my life to try to avoid cancer. Ask me about them if you're interested.

Pictures