by Sustain Dane | Mar 18, 2022 | Climate Commitment Stories
I’m working on lowering my transportation emissions this year by assessing how much I am flying and talking to friends and family about how to reduce the number of flights I’m taking. This is hard for me because I grew up across the country and have...
by Sustain Dane | Mar 14, 2022 | Climate Commitment Stories
I wanted to significantly reduce and eventually eliminate all of my food waste. Its not as easy to accomplish as a single mother raising two children, grad school, and commuting 1 1/2 hours a day for work. I’m often exhausted, and some of the groceries I buy...
by Sustain Dane | Mar 9, 2022 | Climate Commitment Stories, Uncategorized
Looking into ways to reduce our carbon footprint. My husband and I have been driving electric cars for the past year and a half and we love it. I don’t miss the smell of gasoline and we halved our transportation carbon emissions. I would have loved to install solar...
by Sustain Dane | Mar 9, 2022 | Climate Commitment Stories, Uncategorized
I am phasing out all of my gasoline powered equipment and replacing them with 40V rechargable battery equipment from GreenWorks (lawn mower, snow blower, chain saw). I purchase renewable electricity from my provider, Alliant Energy, so it is clean energy for these...
by Sustain Dane | Mar 3, 2022 | Climate Commitment Stories
I chose the most challenging for me out of the choices – food. I grew up working on a dairy and beef farm and have a strong love for agriculture and the memories that I have. I never worked on a factory farm and all of our animals were treated well up until the...
by Sustain Dane | Mar 3, 2022 | Climate Commitment Stories
I’ve been buying local produce and subscribing to a CSA (community supported agriculture) for many years, along with building my gardening skills. The next steps for me are: 1) to be more intentional about teaching my teenage children to cook so they bring that...
