by Sustain Dane | Aug 27, 2024 | Climate Commitment Stories, Guest Posts
Guest Blog By: Thamyres Costa (Bucky PR Student) From my earliest memories, my family ingrained the importance of reusing and donating clothes in me. As a child, I remember awaiting the bags of hand-me-down clothes from older cousins and family friends. This simple...
by Sustain Dane | May 31, 2024 | Climate Commitment Stories, Guest Posts
Guest Blog By: Bruce Javenkoski My interest in making sustainable changes to our house and my life accelerated when we moved here in 1999. The house was built for passive solar and it really worked. It could be a sunny, winter day of 15 – 20 degrees and the...
by Sustain Dane | Jan 25, 2023 | Climate Commitment Stories, Uncategorized
We had solar panels installed on our garage — in 2021, we produced just over 5 MWh of electricity! We also live right on the southwest bike path and our garage (and solar panels) are very visible to anyone going eastbound towards the Capitol on the bike path So,...
by Sustain Dane | Jul 21, 2022 | Climate Commitment Stories
Our green team met in February of 2020 with plenty of lofty goals, one of which was to start an office compost. Not long after starting our research, the pandemic set in and that goal was pushed to the bottom of our priorities. As things began opening back up in 2021,...
by Sustain Dane | May 21, 2022 | Climate Commitment Stories
Most college students are on tight budgets and don’t have a lot of time to work on their wardrobe outside of all the time devoted to work, classes and extracurriculars. When you find out about a themed event, college students often turn to fast fashion brands like...
by Sustain Dane | Apr 18, 2022 | Climate Commitment Stories, Uncategorized
I was pleased and encouraged to learn that switching to a more plant-based diet would have such a positive impact on climate change, especially when I considered the collective impact with others that are likely making a similar commitment. Such a switch seemed like a...
