Car Seat Disposal Day

Safe Kids Chippewa Valley (a program sponsored by Sacred Heart Hospital), Eau Claire Ford Lincoln and Quick Lane, and AAA of Wisconsin are partnering to offer Chippewa Valley parents a safe and environmentally-friendly alternative to disposing of outgrown or unused children’s car seats.
Safe Kids Chippewa Valley and Eau Claire Ford Lincoln and Quick Lane will [...]

Green Nourishment

by Pam Jaffke
Sunrider herbal food, household, personal care and skin care products are exclusive and truly in a league of their own. The Philosophy of Regeneration is the blueprint for each Sunrider product, thereby making the products unique in concept, efficacy and quality. This Philosophy has four essential principles:
1. Sunrider products nourish and cleanse your [...]

Ground Power: Mayo Goes Geothermal

The new Mayo Clinic Dialysis Center in Menomonie is designed to help patients whose kidneys aren’t functioning properly. It’s also designed to help the environment.
When the new facility opens in early spring, all its heating and cooling needs will be controlled through a geothermal energy system.
“It will be a lot more energy efficient,” said Bob [...]

Beyond Payback: Our Energy Future

by Glen Fisher
As our nation enters another presidential election year, many politicians speak of their policies for energy independence. It seems every candidate has the best vision to satisfy our country’s energy needs. Whether it be building a pipeline for oil sands from Canada, or expanding “fracking” of natural gas reserves, discussion rages about how [...]

Clean Green

Norwex is committed to radically reducing the use of chemicals in personal care and cleaning to promote health. More than ever we feel the need to emphasize the positive environmental impact of reducing chemical use.
During the past several hundred years, human activity has significantly altered our global environment, and the negative effects of this are [...]

Green Your Wheels

by Diane Wolfe
What makes a car green? Apparently, design with the environment in mind. According to greenercars.org, design improvements developed by automotive engineers are the main reason that cars have improved, or become “greener”, over the past generation.
Thirty years ago, the average new car got no more than 13 miles per gallon. Its pollution controls [...]

Off the Grid: Tips and Fun Facts

City Green Buzz
Plans are in the works to add an electric car to the fleet of City of Eau Claire cars in the very near future. Hoops are being jumped through as you read this!
Chippewa Valley Sustainable Future Festival
The Chippewa Valley Sustainable Future Festivalwill held at the Eau Claire County Exposition Center, Saturday, August 11, [...]

Green Pages » March/April ‘12

“The Most Important Change Is the One You Make Just For Yourself” – Anonymous
How often have you heard yourself or someone else talk about needing to make lifestyle changes for health and wellness, only to follow up with a stream of excuses and obstacles making it seem daunting, if not impossible to achieve?
Over two-thirds of [...]

Sangre de Grado: Medicinal Plant of the Rainforest

by Paula Quinlan
The rainforests today have evolved over millions of years, creating a complex, bio-diverse, living and breathing renewable resource for the survival and well-being of humankind. The inner dynamics of the rainforests are so intricate, fragile, and interdependent, that when one part is destroyed, it can have a devastating effect on the rainforest as [...]

Green Pages » Jan./Feb. ‘12

GOALS Life Coaching Go Out And Live Successfully!
If you are like me, I was intimidated by the word goals. The word alone was unappealing to me. I didn’t understand the importance of goals and I didn’t know what my goals were. Plus, I had a fear of failure or a fear of success; I wasn’t [...]

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