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 ...

Cool new foodie TV show out of Osseo?

... 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.

Dashing our high-speed hopes

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 ...

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.

City Council President wants the electric ride

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 ...

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.

The Wisconsin Solar Farm

A round of sustainable applause for Lake Geneva, Wis., people. That’s where Convergence Energy is located, and they’re building one a hell of a solar panel operation (the second largest in Wisconsin) with a twist. The twist is that individual ...

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...

Food for Thought

it’s high time for a foodie movement documentary series

What started as an idea to show one food film in Menomonie has become an eight-week series both in Menomonie and Eau Claire. Food for Thought is a first of its kind in the Valley...

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Xcel Energy
Eau Claire

Go Green is sponsored by:

Xcel Energy
Eau Claire