Wisconsin a leader in ... climate change preparation?

According to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Wisconsin is right on track with efforts to curb climate change and water pollution. We’re among nine other states in the “green zone,” meaning we have policies in place to manage carbon ...

Local litter ninja goes high tech with trash-tracking iPhone app

Local litter hater Jim Schumacher has an iPhone, and he’s not afraid to use it. Jim’s always done his part to combat stray garbage, but his recent discovery of a Japanese-made litter-tracking, social networking iPhone app has taken his game to a ...

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...

Local people lend support to local bees

Online student news magazine Inside Eau Claire recently ran an interesting article on local efforts to combat Colony Collapse Disorder, aka Holy Crap All the Bees Are Dying and Nature is Totally Screwed Disorder. I haven’t seen too many ...

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 ...

Solar Tree grows power for CVTC

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" ...

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.

Wis. Rail Coalition fights for high speed rail though EC

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 ...

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Eau Claire

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Eau Claire

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