Green links

Power Initiative - Promoting our Wisconsin Energy Resources
Focus on Energy - works with eligible Wisconsin residents and businesses to install cost effective energy efficiency and renewable energy projects
Wisconsin Environment - a statewide, citizen-based environmental advocacy organization
Earthday Network - everyday for everybody
WEI (Wisconsin Environmental Initiative) - working to improve Wisconsin's environment and economy
The Grist - Environmental news and commentary
The Daily Green - The consumers guide to the green revolution
Home Grown Wisconsin - sustainable growers serving fine restaurants
Wisconsin Organics - wide variety of milk, cheese and butter products that come from organic dairy farms
MOSES (Midwest Organic & Sustainable Education Services) - serves farmers striving to produce high-quality, healthful food using organic & sustainable techniques
Organic Food Stores - an easy way to find organic stores and organic food stores in your area
USPA (U.S. Environment Protection Agency) - Environmental responsibility is everyone’s responsibility
TreeHugger - a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information
Plant Information Online - University of MN

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  • C-Span American Writers new is an archive of writers featured on C-Span.
  • Arts Journal new Arts Journal is a digest of some of the best arts and cultural journalism in the English-speaking world. Each day the site features links to stories culled from more than 200 English-language newspapers, magazines, and publications featuring writing about arts, literature, and culture.
  • Ice Cube Project new The IceCube is an underground telescope being built in Antarctica to study neutrinos. UW Madison is one of the leaders of the Ice Cube project at UW Madison.
  • Campus Compact is a national coalition of nearly 1,100 college and university presidents — representing some 6 million students — dedicated to promoting community service, civic engagement, and service-learning in higher education.
  • American Environics is committed to bringing cutting edge social science tools to inform social change strategies with the goal of creating a politics that grows self-expression and fulfillment values in the culture. Our core values are imagination, innovation, audacity, and integrity.
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