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Nov 11, 20203 min read

Congratulations! Announcing our 2020 Inspiring Sustainability Award Winners

On November 10th, 2020, we were excited to finally announce our winners of the Inspiring Sustainability Awards at a live zoom event. If...

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Nov 2, 20202 min read

Recycle a Mattress? 7 Rivers Recycling says of course you can!

7 Rivers Recycling, LLC was founded in 2011 by Hilltopper Refuse & Recycling Service, Inc. and D&M Recycling as a collaborative effort to...

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Oct 28, 20201 min read

Announcing the 2020 Nominees for the Inspiring Sustainability Awards!

Join us on November 10th at 3PM for a live virtual awards ceremony where we will announce the two winners of the 2020 Inspiring...

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Oct 15, 20201 min read

Sustainability Chats: GoMacro - Bigger than a bar!

We finished up the month of September and started the beginning of the fall season with a Sustainability Chats virtual tour of GoMacro,...

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Sep 8, 20203 min read

Business in the Environmental Era: the Case of Dynamic Lifecycle Innovations

Conventional wisdom holds that with environmental protection and economic growth, one must come at the other’s expense. The case of...

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Sep 3, 20202 min read

Urban Agriculture on a Small City Lot - Sustainability Chats Recap

Willie and Katie Bittner of Great Lakes Sustainability met at the MN Conservation Corps and bonded around the garden outside the dining...

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Aug 25, 20203 min read

Onalaska High School Students Combat Food Waste: The Ecovim Project

On a warm September afternoon almost two years ago, a group of six students met in an English classroom to discuss Onalaska High School’s...

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Aug 18, 20201 min read

Sustainability Chats - Food Forest Tour

Our last Sustainability Chats was held on August 18th with Judson Steinback from Coulee Region Ecoscapes. He took us around the Community...

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Jul 20, 20201 min read

Sustainability Chats: Grow Solar La Crosse - Solar Power Hour

During our most recent Sustainability Chats, we co-hosted a Solar Power Hour with Grow Solar La Crosse. The Grow Solar La Crosse program...

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Jun 29, 20204 min read

The Anxious Dance

by Casey Meehan, PhD Director of Programming, Sustainability Institute Sometimes I really like driving down a section of interstate...

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Jun 17, 20201 min read

Sustainability Chats - Virtual Tour of La Crosse Distilling Co.

Our June Sustainability Chats - Virtual Green Tour was hosted by La Crosse Distilling Co. You can watch the video playback of the...

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May 29, 20203 min read

Building & Living Passive with Scott Cooper - Sustainability Chats Virtual Green Tour

Our first Sustainability Chats - virtual green tour - was this past Thursday, May 28th. UWL Professor Scott Cooper took us around his...

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May 26, 20205 min read

Let's Choose to Return to Better

The protections put in place through "Safe-at-Home" orders, and the residual behavioral changes that will last for months to come, are...

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Apr 28, 20202 min read

New and exciting things are coming!

Hello! Hi There! It is nice to virtually meet you! My name is Carrie Thompson, and I am the Operations & Program Coordinator for the...

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