Press Clippings

Gene Delcourt is a Madison-based educator and woodworker. Delcourt retired in 2016 after eighteen years of teaching social studies at Shabazz City High School.

Since leaving the classroom, Delcourt started his venture, Humble Crossings, to provide families with an environmentally sustainable option...

An outdoor exhibit in Verona is shining a spotlight on sustainability, displaying artwork created solely of natural materials that can decompose back to where they originated from: the Earth. 

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From now until Tuesday, Oct. 31, The Linda and Gene Farley Center for Peace, Justice and Sustainability is transforming their land into sustainable artwork as part of the center’s...

Gene Delcourt says his wooden caskets are for “anybody who wants to be green.”

Delcourt, 57, will retire this summer from his job teaching social studies at Malcolm Shabazz City High School. That opens the door for him to focus his attention on Humble Crossings, his eco-friendly casket business...

Having spent years learning, sort as an understudy of the late Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk) artist and sculptor Harry Whitehorse, Gene Delcourt is determined to make sure that Whitehorse’s work and life are never forgotten. Delcourt, half Abenaki and half Filipino, is a wood sculptor who.

We are always striving to keep as many felled logs in productive use as possible. By "productive use," I mean preventing good wood from becoming firewood or woodchips and instead becoming useful and/or beautiful products that will be treasured for decades...

When Tanya Mudrick searched in 2012 for a place to bury her stillborn son, Oren, she chose Circle Cemetery in Barneveld — one of the nation’s pioneer green cemeteries. 

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Wrapped in a quilt and placed in a hand-weaved wicker basket, Oren is buried among 60 others inside a nature preserve lush with the wetlands, springs and sandstone rock of Wisconsin’s...