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Look at our favorite ideas, any time of the year!
It's easy being green.
Green is all around us, catch your neighbor in the act of being green.
Submit a photo to be published on the website (include: name, city and idea).
Coca Cola 2007 Report with sustainable goals and outcomes, read it here.
Commission for a Greener tomorrow at the Home Show
Saturday, April 26, 2008 was our first "Free Bicycle Tune-up Clinic" held at the Rib Mountain Fire Department.
We helped to fix about 10 different bikes for the upcoming season! We would like to thank Randy at Rib Mountain Cycle and Chief Paul Wirth at Rib Mountain Fire Department for all of their assistance in the event!!
Solar Tubes--Light Tubes; whatever the name they brighten spaces and save energy!
This interior hallway has little or no natural light available particularly on dark and gloomy days that abound during Wisconsin winters. The light tubes brighten this area even on cloudy days without artificial lighting.
They are relatively inexpensive to purchase and install, total cost for these two less than $800.
The"K-Tech Free Document Shredding Event"
-- they shredded over 35,000 pounds of paper. Which in visual terms is about 1.5
semi-trailers or approximately 6000 cubic feet of material!!!
As you are aware -- State Law and County ordinance requires all businesses and residential customers to recycle. Although it's against the law, many of us still dispose of paper products in our garbage. As a result of this, today's landfills still contain about 30-40% paper products. Many of us might not feel comfortable recycling our sensitive documents using our curbside collection. By properly disposing of 35,000 pounds of sensitive documents and transporting the material for use at a local paper mills, we've saved valuable landfill space, energy and resources in the production of new paper, and at least 200 trees!!!
WPSC Farm Show in Oshkosh is 'green' this year
By Doug Zellmer of The Northwestern
This year's show is "green" with the purchase of electricity through Public Service's NatureWise program, which offers renewable energy from wind and biomass resources in northeast Wisconsin, said Mike Kawleski, agriculture market leader for WPS.
Biomass sources, he said, include landfill gas and energy produced from farm manure digesters. Manure in the digester produces a gas, which is mostly natural gas.
Kawleski said a "green" farm show is a good way to promote that agriculture is going to be one of the major sources of renewable energy.
"Renewable energy sources are helping to power a farm show that displays the latest innovations," he said.
Chip Bircher, renewable energy product manager for WPS, said right now renewable energy sells at a premium, compared to conventional resources.
"The big advantage renewable offers in terms of wind and solar energy is there is no fuel cost for producing electricity and the environmental benefits that come along by not using coal and other fossil fuels," Bircher said. "Our customers are telling us they want to do more 'green' and government is moving in that direction as well."
Today is the final day of the WPS Farm Show, which includes nearly 400 exhibitors with more than 800 indoor and outdoor exhibit booths on the grounds of the Experimental Aircraft Association. There are a total of about seven acres of exhibits, most in heated hangars.
The show has displays on tractors, machinery, feed, livestock and manure handling equipment, ventilation systems, lighting, milking and barn equipment, seed, fertilizer and insurance and real estate services.
Doug Zellmer: (920) 426-6667 or dzellmer@thenorthwestern.com.
Sustainable Weston (pdf)
Earth Week 2008--Green Bay (pdf)