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Timing is Everything: Reflections from BECC
Cool Choices Executive Director Kathy Kuntz recently attended the 2018 Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change conference. BECC is an international conference focused on understanding human behavior and decision making and using that knowledge to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon future.
Read moreClean Energy Delivers Benefits in Minnesota
Local stories have the possibility to showcase the many benefits of clean energy– including in the Midwest.
More Cool Choices with Wylie Independent School District
We are delighted to announce that we are running a second Cool Choices sustainability engagement program with the Wylie Independent School District in Wylie, Texas!
We Are Still In and We’re Feeling Hopeful
As part of the Global Climate Action Summit, Cool Choices staff attended a We Are Still In (WASI) Forum at the California Academy of Sciences. The Global Action Climate Summit was a weeklong series of events to take climate action to the next level.
Make Participation Fun to Bring Climate Change Efforts to Scale
Climate change is a major challenge. But here at Cool Choices, we know we need everyone to be a part of the solution– so we need to make sustainability fun.
Sustainable Communities: Accelerating Sustainable Practices Across Your Community
Communities across the world are committing to sustainable practices. Here in the US, cities large and small are pledging to reduce their emissions, to fulfill the terms of the Paris Climate Accord, and to achieve 100% clean energy.
As we showcased in the first installment of our Sustainable Communities webinar series, communities large and small across the Midwest are doing great work around sustainability. A challenge is expanding and accelerating that work by involving everyone and delivering change at scale.
High-Tech Gardens
Smart gardens are becoming ever more popular and accessible with open-source software that helps to reduce water use, weed growth, and labor.
It’s Time for Culture Change
Achieving aggressive sustainability goals requires more than a strategy; sustainability leaders need to facilitate a culture change so that sustainable practices are part of a new normal.
Cool Choices Across the Kohler Power Network
Kohler Power Systems —Kohler’s division that manufactures generators and related products—will implement a unique Cool Choices program this fall.
Making Cool Choices in Northeast Wisconsin
Some ideas are so good that they merit replication.
Last year Cool Choices did a community-scale sustainability program in Waukesha County, in partnership with the county’s workforce development team and local chambers of commerce. Sustainability leaders in the Fox Valley heard about the program and reached out to ask if we could replicate the program in their region.
