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 | Nov 27, 2023 | Guest Posts, Summit Recaps
By Adam J. Blust Diamond Spratling’s career as an environmentalist and educator started with polar bears. As a child, she saw a heartbreaking TV commercial on the plight of the polar bear, complete with an emotional music score. “That reeled me in,” she said. “I...
by Sustain Dane | Sep 29, 2023 | Guest Posts, Program Recaps
By Adam J. Blust Even people who never thought about air quality got an education in the topic this summer, when Canadian wildfires caused air quality crises throughout the United States. Air quality was the subject of Sustain Dane’s latest Sustainable Breakfast...
by Sustain Dane | Jul 28, 2023 | Guest Posts, Program Recaps
By Adam J. Blust In 2007, professional beekeepers began to sound the alarm that bees were suffering huge losses in their populations. “The bees were just gone,” said UW Professor Claudio Gratton, who spoke at the Sustain Dane Sustainable Breakfast July 18. “The hives...
by Sustain Dane | May 1, 2023 | Guest Posts, Program Recaps
By Adam Blust Commitment leads to change. When an organization makes a commitment to a sustainability project, big or small, that’s when good intentions become reality. Sustain Dane gathered 44 organizations and companies from around Dane County and beyond April 7...
