Wisconsin

The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Wisconsin.

News

Networks and sustainability initiatives

• Sustain Dane

Community energy

Focus on Energy, statewide program for energy efficiency and renewable energy - Wikipedia: Solar power in Wisconsin

Towards sustainable economies

Madison

Allied Community Co-op is the first Mutual Aid Network pilot site. It's where some of the organization's fundamental ideas were born. Located in a food desert with little infrastructure (no school, grocery store, library, or neighborhood center), the Allied Co-op is working to bring a food buying club and a cooperatively-owned grocery store to the neighborhood.

The Social Justice Center, a multi-stakeholder nonprofit building in Madison's affluent East Side, is a convening partner in exploring Madison's second Mutual Aid Network pilot, which will be an inter-city partnership connecting Allied Co-op and many other local stakeholders in a network of resource-sharing and exchange initiative designed to create more equitable distribution of existing resources across the city...Shareable

Community resources

• Madison Area Community Land Trust, (MACLT), non-profit based in Madison, that sells high-quality, energy-efficient homes at below market prices to low-moderate income households
• Social Justice Center, Madison

Citizens data initiative

The cities of Wisconsin have been active in increasing the availability of legislative information on the internet, thereby providing for greater government transparency. Currently three of the five most populous cities in Wisconsin provide their constituents with internet-based access of all public records directly from the cities' databases. Wisconsin cities started to make this a priority after Milwaukee began doing so, on their page, in 2001. One such city, Madison, has been named the Number 1 digital city by the Center for Digital Government in consecutive years.

• Energy Profile for Wisconsin, Economic, environmental, and energy data

Climate change

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, "Wisconsin's climate is changing. In the past century, most of the state has warmed about two degrees (F). Heavy rainstorms are becoming more frequent, and ice cover on the Great Lakes is forming later or melting sooner. In the coming decades, the state will have more extremely hot days, which may harm public health in urban areas and corn harvests in rural areas".

Sustainable transport activism

Wikipedia: List of hiking trails in Wisconsin

Cycling activism

Wikipedia:

List of bike trails in Wisconsin

Oak Leaf Trail: The Oak Leaf Trail (formerly 76 Bike Trail) is a paved 108-mile (174 km) multi-use recreational trail which encircles Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Clearly marked trail segments connect all of the major parks in the Milwaukee County Park System with a "ribbon of green."

Urban sustainability

Walnut Way Conservation Corp, 501(c)(3) nonprofit neighborhood organization, Milwaukee

Education for sustainability

Urban Ecology Center

Wikipedia:

List of nature centers in Wisconsin

Urban Ecology Center, nonprofit organization in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Their mission is to educate the Milwaukee community about the environment, conservation, sustainability, and other issues related to urban ecology, as well as to preserve and protect the natural areas in the city. The organization is headquartered in the Riverside Park neighborhood. There are two other branches: the Washington Park branch which opened in 2007 and the Menomonee Valley branch which opened in 2012.

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See also

• Food USA, External links

About Wisconsin

From Wikipedia:Wisconsin

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