At 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, we advocate for sustainable land use and equitable transportation policy to support healthy communities. Watch our highlights from 2024 and consider making an end-of-year donation to support our work.
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Wishing you a healthy and happy holiday season! The Staff and Board of 1000 Friends
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The Kenosha Transportation Academy wrapped up last week with final project presentations held at Carthage College. I’ll be honest, when I started preparation for this Academy, I wasn’t sure how it was going to unfold. Kenosha is bigger and more spread out than any other location where we’ve run this program so far. The city’s […]
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We have joined a lawsuit filed by Midwest Environmental Advocates and Legal Action of Wisconsin challenging federal approval of a $1.75 billion plan to expand I-94 in Milwaukee. The lawsuit alleges transportation officials refused to consider an alternative plan that would have incorporated a public transportation element and fixed safety concerns without expanding the highway. […]
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Join us on Wednesday, December 4 from 12-1 (central) for a webinar with Dr. Wes Marshall, professor at the University of Colorado in Denver and author of Killed by a Traffic Engineer! Killed by a Traffic Engineer was the book of the month for September. Marshall pulls back the glittering green curtain to reveal that […]
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On Friday, October 25, members of the Wisconsin Climate Table met in…Illinois?! Yes, that’s right, we met in Illinois. (To be fair, we were within spitting distance of the state line; you could see Wisconsin out the window.) Our fall meeting took place at Nature at the Confluence in South Beloit, IL. Why Beloit? As […]
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