By Lance Green.

The second in a series of monthly articles supporting Monona’s Year of Water, this examines where our city’s water comes from and where it ends up.

Continue reading Water, water everywhere…coming and going through our community...

By Heather Gates

Automated trash service begins with the New Year, making our old trash cans obsolete for their original purpose. Although the city has a dumpster available for us to dispose of our old cans, instead of sending your cans to the landfill, consider some ways to turn your trash can into other useful things.

Continue reading Don’t Can the Can...

By Lance Green

We all have good reasons to be good stewards of our water resources. The Year of Water (2012) provides opportunities to learn about, improve, and conserve our precious water. Find facts, events, and tips for helping you, and your friends and neighbors, to take steps to improve the way we use and manage water.

Continue reading Monona’s Year of Water Kicks Off...

If you’ve received the mailings from Bed Bath & Beyond, your “Spock side” is probably appalled at all the products they sell that fill a need you don’t really have, but your “Homer side” (as in Homer Simpson, not the Greek author) is being led by the nose by the marketers. They know Homer’s there, even if you don’t. Doh! Look out!

Continue reading Ho, Ho, Hold on there...

Everything you could ever want to know about having greener holidays. (Loads of info. Whew!)

Continue reading Green Holiday Ideas...

Click the tab above (next to the “home” tab) for all the details. Thanks to all who registered and all our fabulous sponsors!

Continue reading The Water Conservation Challenge is here!...

You got a lot of livin’ to do! Discuss the state of the globe and see award-winning films at Green Tuesdays & Thursdays Films & Lectures. Participate in Energ!ze Monona forums to help Monona become energy independent (with the help of a great line-up of presenters). Get in on the Year of Water projects, including the Water Conservation Challenge!

Continue reading A blast of activities for you this fall (and beyond)...

By Heather Gates

The Sustainability Section at the Monona Public Library will be four years old next month. Many people helped form, support, and grow the collection and it has become a solid asset in our ever-improving library. It is a birthday worth celebrating.

Continue reading A community asset turns four: learning from the stacks...

Do you want to join others in moving toward a more sustainable future?

Continue reading How to get involved with The Natural Step Monona...

Heather Gates, Executive Director and co-founder of The Natural Step Monona, was named a 2011-2012 Nelson Institute Community Fellow. The Community Fellows Program selects leaders who are allies of the Nelson Institute and champions of the environment. Many government agencies, non-profit organizations, businesses, grassroots environmental groups, and individuals maintain relationships with faculty, staff, and students [...]

Continue reading Heather Gates Named a Community Fellow...