Category Archive: Sustainability
A Commission to Make Your Days A Little Less Blue and A Little More Green
You would be hard-pressed to find a soul within the Wausau community who would prefer to see the area more clutter-filled, more polluted and more irresponsible when it comes to pressing environmental issues. Those folks simply do not exist, and if they did, their hand would certainly not be in the air. But while the whole of the community, and the globe for that matter, can easily concede that we ought to strive to take better care of our planet, making that happen is exponentially more difficult than it would seem it should be.
Attempting to turn that mindset into a …
The Commission for a Greener Tomorrow Agenda and Minutes
The Commission for a Greener Tomorrow has been kind enough to provide us with the agenda for their upcoming meeting on December 8, 2008 as well as their minutes from their last meeting. I encourage all of you to get involved if you feel you could make a useful contribution to this team of noble citizens.
Green Wausau: Overflowing With Ideas
Ideas for a Green Wausau, for a sustainable future, sometimes seem far-fetched or too costly, but I assert that this doesn’t have to be true. By taking some first steps to sustainability, we can achieve a more environmentally healthy city and hopefully, less of a dependence on foreign oil. With a media focus on T. Boone Pickens’ plan, we can take this moment to talk about the first steps that Wausau can take, should take, since we are a community packed full of conscientious, brilliant people with determination and grit.
Green Wausau: The Rosenberg Opportunity
The City of Wausau is a small town. Like a small car, the City of Wausau can be a nimble thing, darting through changes, looking forward, wind in its hair. But like a badly maintained small car, the city of Wausau can be an underpowered, unresponsive car without any room for friends or family or even the dog. I think that this is a challenging time, a time with opportunity, and a time where we have the resources to make our City the best small car we can make it.
As the Fourth of July just passed, I am left with …
Commission for a Greener Tomorrow
I went last night [on Monday] and sat in on the steering team meeting for the Commission for a Greener Tomorrow. This is a citizen led group that is focused on promoting sustainable living in central Wisconsin.
Where Does Wausau Go?
What an amazing year 2007 was. It’s brought about a a lot of change in our community, and in some ways, I myself will never be the same.
A few months ago, I was walking into my friend Forest Young’s drugstore to pick up a prescription. As I entered, I was quickly asked to leave and not touch anything. Why? Was I a loitering miscreant? No, not this time. It was because the ladies behind the counter had just been accosted by a gun-wielding burglar.
Commission for a Greener Tomorrow Meeting
Friends,
This is clearly something that we at Citizen Wausau take seriously. Something we hope that more people are interested in. So, we are passing along this email that we got from Susie and Kelly. The work that they have initiated is impressive, and will be something that propels our city into the future.
Hope to see you there.
Commission for a Greener Tomorrow - Meeting Dec. 4, 2007
Wausau City Hall - 5:00 to 6:30pm
The Commission for Greener Tomorrow is working towards creating sustainable communities within Central Wisconsin. A sustainable community respects its own diversity and accepts responsibility for …