By Maggie Layden

Consumerism is bad for us. Living on a planet with finite materials, we need to live off of the “interest” provided by the earth, and not eat into the “capital,” as we currently are. It’s not about “saving the planet;” it’s about saving the habitable home in which we live.

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By Lance Green

How can you make it so your water softener does less harm to our waters and still work well for you?

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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!

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

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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.

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

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[ October 3, 2011; 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] UW Nelson Institute Capstone Course. Last semester’s students partnered with us to survey Monona residents on sustainability topics. This
semester’s class takes residents’ number one concern—water—and develops a year-long program of education, outreach, and projects around improving the ways we interact with it. On October 3 at 6:30 pm, the class is being held at the [...]

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By Fred Gluck

In America, we’re not used to living small. We live in the land of “super-size it,” SUVs, and “bigger is better.” My wife and I were rattling around in a 3,800 square foot house on two acres, and had accumulated two cars and lots of stuff. We are now a one-car, 800-square-foot-house couple, and surviving quite well. I share the most important lessons about how to move to a less-is-more world.

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A University of Wisconsin Nelson Institute capstone course recently worked with TNS Monona to conduct a survey throughout the city of Monona.  Twelve UW seniors, their Teaching Assistant Dadit Hidayat, their instructor Randy Stoecker, and their academic staff resource person, Katherine Loving,  went door to door  with fourteen Monona residents distributing surveys in April.  They [...]

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