An Integrated Approach to Zero-Carbon Transportation Webinar As electric vehicles (EVs) become more and more prominent in Wisconsin, it is important that our communities are ready for this major transition. 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, along with Jane McCurry at RENEW Wisconsin, recently held a webinar with our Green Tier community partners to discuss the current […]
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DEVELOPING A CLEAN ENERGY PLAN FOR YOUR COMMUNITY As concern over climate change and its impacts deepens, local communities across Wisconsin are eager to develop and implement clean energy plans. Often, they struggle with how to begin from a technical perspective and how to engage their communities. The Wisconsin Clean Energy Toolkit is a comprehensive […]
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How Bad are our Local Roads in Wisconsin? – A retrospective on “Fix-It-First” How bad are local roads in Wisconsin? In case you missed it, the New York Times recently described Trempealeau County roads looking like “losers in a barroom brawl. Thick, jagged cracks run down the asphalt like scars, interrupted at points by bruised […]
Read more about "How Bad are our Local Roads in Wisconsin? A retrospective on “Fix-It-First”"Statewide Coalition Urges WisDOT, Gov. Evers to Prioritize Transit with $75M Multi-Modal Grant Program Applications from Transit Agencies Show Tremendous Need for Investment [Madison] – In July, Gov. Evers announced the creation of a $75 million Multimodal Local Supplement (MLS) program to support critical transportation projects in communities across the state. Local governments and transit […]
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Green Tier Trees for Great Lakes Water Quality by Abe Lenoch A brief but intense rain came to a halt just as Bill Sturm and I pulled up to one of the sites that the City of Oshkosh chose for a set of street tree plantings. With the leaves still wet, Bill and I got […]
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Download and read the full December 2019 Landscapes Newsletter, focused on what we are doing to fight Climate Change.
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