Some light recycling, courtesy of Eau Claire County

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?

Phoenix Gardens Pavilion gets real y’all

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 ...

This Week: Clear Vision Empowerment Summit

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.

River Cleaning Day

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.

Eau Claire getting more electric?

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 ...

On Board with the Bicycle Bus

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.

'Old' is the new 'New'

local hotspots for antique furniture and decor

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 ...

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? ...

Go Green is sponsored by:

Xcel Energy
Eau Claire

Go Green is sponsored by:

Xcel Energy
Eau Claire

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