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 ...
A few weeks ago, Chippewa Valley Technical College got a bit more green by planting a black, metallic tree. Over the last year, the college worked with local renewable energy systems installer Next Step Energy to create their first "solar tree" ...
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 ...
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.
Today the West Central Wisconsin Rail Coalition held a press conference to address the Minnesota Department of Transportation's final report analyzing possible high speed rail routes between the Twin Cities and Milwaukee. As you may remember ...
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 ...
... It’s pretty good stuff for a low budget pilot. It’s a lot more fun to see a small working farm in action, producing food for the show’s recipes than it is to see Giada De Laurentiis snipping some basil from the window garden behind her sink.
Some very disappointing news on Wednesday. One of Eau Claire’s last hopes for being a stop on the forthcoming high-speed rail line connecting the Twin Cities to Chicago has evaporated, as the Mississippi River route has been selected for ...
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.
First we hear about a grant for hybrid buses, and today we hear that City Council President Kerry Kincaid is jonesing for some electric powered transportation, too. She’s hoping Eau Claire can adopt an electric vehicle demonstration project ...
