Put on your eco-friendly thinking caps: The second annual Chippewa Valley Sustainable Future Festival is now accepting proposals for presentations and workshops. The festival, which will take place ...
They city of Eau Claire just got three brand new hybrid busses to replace a trio of older busses, all of them 10 years old or older, all of them purchased at an 80% discount thanks to funding from the Federal Transit Administration. But, as of ...
So you’re all ready to put the Christmas lights up on your house, but you run into an irreversible snag. Aw nuts - the pretty lights just don’t light up. Well, instead of using them as a spiky, alternative clothes line, why not recycle them?
The Phoenix Gardens Community Pavilion is finally on its way up – with some major construct completed last weekend. The Phoenix Community Gardens and the North River Fronts Neighborhood will soon have a brand-new structure that seeks to be a ...
Do you have ideas for how to make the Chippewa Valley a better place? This fall, it’s time to be EMPOWER those great ideas. Starting this week, Clear Vision Eau Claire is hosting its first-ever Empowerment Summit.
On Wednesday, September 26 the City of Eau Claire went to town cleaning up the Chippewa and Eau Claire rivers. They collected more than one boat load of bikes and miscellaneous items.
Green initiative continues to go underway at city hall. Last November, Eau Claire City Council budgeted $45,000 for an electric car and charging station. It has yet to be bought and now estimates put the project at least $2,500 over budget ...
The Dutch have done it again! First I heard about the Repair Café concept in Amsterdam, and now I hear the Netherlands has come up with another innovative way to go green – and this time it's the children who get to participate.
This past summer while hitting up local rummage sales with my husband and parents, I made the find of the day when I stumbled across a magnificently old but perfectly solid chair. I loved it immediately; with its very worn but original yellow ...
