Resource Links
Ask Focus On Energy
-- answers energy-related questions and shows people and businesses how to save money by being more energy efficient.
Energy Center of Wisconsin
-- is helping to shape a future that taps efficiency as our nation's first energy resource. We train the workforce responsible for the performance of our homes and workplaces and collaborate with stakeholders to find ways to make better choices about how we use energy.
Environmental Education (EE) in Wisconsin
-- is a learning process that increases knowledge and awareness about the environment and develops skills that enable responsible decisions and actions that impact the environment. EE encourages inquiry and investigation and enables the learner to develop critical-thinking, problem-solving and effective decision-making skills. EE enables individuals to weigh various sides of an environmental issue. It does not advocate a particular viewpoint or course of action.
Focus on Energy
-- works with eligible Wisconsin residents and businesses to install cost effective energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. Focus information, resources and financial incentives help to implement projects that otherwise would not be completed, or to complete projects sooner than scheduled. Its efforts help Wisconsin residents and businesses manage rising energy costs, promote in-state economic development, protect our environment and control the state's growing demand for electricity and natural gas.
GLBRC Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
-- performs research that generates technology to convert cellulosic biomass to ethanol and other advanced biofuels. To accomplish its mission in a university research environment, the GLBRC applies cutting-edge research to: Help create a new generation of sustainable bioenergy feedstocks, processing technologies and fuels; evaluate the economic and environmental impacts of these new technologies; and bring technological advances to other academic scientists, the private sector and the marketplace.
Going Green Wisconsin
-- providing environment and sustainability news on finding ways to live, work and play green. We'd all like to live a greener, healthier and happier life.
GreenBiz.com
-- aligning environmental responsibility with business success by providing daily news, tools, and resources to corporate executives and sustainability directors at large and small businesses through a combination of websites, electronic newsletters, online events, briefing papers, and other means, including news stories, reports, blogs, checklists, case studies, and links to best practices, organizations, technical assistance programs, government agencies, and recognition programs.
Green Tier
-- invites you to become part of an ideal state for growing the green bottom line. Together, we can provide credible, creative ways to enable your business to be a powerful, sustainable force for environmental good and enhance your productivity, cut your costs and strengthen the health of your culture and community.
Travel Green Wisconsin
-- is a voluntary program that reviews, certifies and recognizes tourism businesses and organizations that have made a commitment to reducing their environmental impact. Specifically, the program encourages participants to evaluate their operations, set goals and take specific actions towards environmental, social, and economic sustainability.
UW-Milwaukee Center for Sustainability Education
-- improves the quality of life and the economy for individuals and businesses through education on sustainable, "green" best practices. Instructors are subject matter experts from industry, government and universities. CSE Sustainable Business training programs help companies learn how to incorporate sustainability into their strategic plans to gain competitive advantage. GreenSmart classes help individuals learn to live greener lifestyles.
WasteCap Wisconsin Resource Solutions
-- is a statewide, nonprofit, industry supported 501(c)(3) organization that provides waste reduction and recycling assistance to businesses. WasteCap assists and encourages companies to effectively drive costs out of their operations through improved solid waste management practices. Offers a variety of services that target solid waste issues head on and helps organizations find workable, cost-effective solutions.
WGBA Wisconsin Green Building Alliance
-- mission is to shape our future by facilitating and promoting ecologically sustainable practices within Wisconsin's Built environment. WGBA provides a variety of resources, including: an annual green building conference, educational programs and green building tours, an interactive green direcrtory, a quarterly newsletter and numerous e-updates to keep you abreast of Green Builing in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Bio Industry Alliance
-- supporting the development of bio based renewable energy, power, and products in Wisconsin. By bringing the appropriate players to the table, the organization will grow the bio-economy in Wisconsin, concentrating on a specific series of campaigns targeted at the most fertile opportunities in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Partners for Sustainability
-- recognizes the interconnectedness and interdependence of society, our environment and the economy, and the need to live in balance with nature. Committed to applying the principles of sustainability to our work and our lives and to facilitating Wisconsin's leadership on the local, state and national levels.
WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc.
-- identifies innovative technologies developed throughout the University of Wisconsin System and brings them to the marketplace for the benefit of the inventors, their colleges, Wisconsin's economy and society as a whole.