No-Mow Lawns

a new movement away from the traditional grass yard

It wasn’t the mowing that drove Linda Soltis to an alternative lawn – it was the moles. Mole tunnels riddled the postage-stamp-sized patch of grass that she labored over watering, weeding, and fertilizing, and she was tired of it. Her solution? ...

Focus on Energy: Go Green to Get Green

It really is easy being green with Wisconsin’s new Focus on Energy program, which assists Wis. residents and businesses manage rising energy costs. The program encourages eligible Wisconsinites to update to more energy-efficient and cost-effective...

Troubled Water

change needed to improve the Red Cedar Watershed

In the Netherlands, watersheds are considered such a vital part of life that local governments are organized around them, rather than by cities and counties. Watersheds are just as important to life here in the Valley, yet many of us aren’t ...

Buying into Organic

Chippewa group has been doing it since before it was cool

The notion of organic food stores and local food co-ops in 1980 was certainly an innovative one, which is exactly why Chippewa Falls residents Barb Harling and Kathy Mandelert founded CHIPS, the Chippewa Falls Organic Food Buying Club. Together ...

Winter Sustainability

festival offers green vendors, dinner, and ... square dancing

Sustainability isn’t just for summer. Eau Claire’s inaugural Sustainability Festival, put on by Sustainable Eau Claire, is in fact a Winter Sustainability Festival aimed at educating families and children in particular about the benefits of a ...

The Gas Guzzlers of 2011

If you stay awake at night dreaming of a post-apocalyptic world filled with SUV’s that burn a mix of crushed up wind turbines and solar panels for fuel, then these cars are for you.

Local Conservation Group Raising Awareness

Let’s face it: Eau Claire is beautiful. And there’s one non-profit group working to keep it that way and help it live up to it’s Clear Water name – River Country Resource Conservation and Development Council (RC&D). The group was previously ...

5 Fun Projects: Turn Trash into Fun

We throw away tons of or trash every week and honestly, a lot of it isn’t so much trash as stuff we just don’t want anymore. Here are five ways to have fun with some of that stuff you’re bored of.

BrightFarms touts rooftop produce system

Wasted space and “food miles.” These are two areas in which most supermarkets, no matter how sustainable their operations try to be, fail to get a green stamp of approval, but one New York company aims to change that.

Sustainability Session Include Solar, Geothermal

At this point, most people have recognized and responded to the ever-increasing need to implement more sustainable practices on a day-to-day basis. And the City of Eau Claire and Eau Claire’s Chamber of Commerce are presenting a series on...