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Creating a Roadmap for Transforming Transportation
Transportation represented 28% of US greenhouse gas emissions in 2016. Reducing transportation emissions is critical to tackling climate change. Yet inspiring more people to adopt walking, biking, and...
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Leverage Sustainability to Attract and Retain Talent
Everyone’s Competing for Talent A decade after the Great Recession, we’re now in the midst of a tight labor market. Wisconsin’s unemployment hovers at 3%, which is lower than the 4.5% to 5%...
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Evolving to Do More on Climate Change
Over the last eight years Cool Choices has implemented numerous engagement programs, inspiring thousands of people to adopt sustainable practices at work and home. We successfully helped corporate and...
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Culture Change
Culture Change—You Need It So How Do You Know If You’ve Got It? Achieving aggressive sustainability goals—whether within corporate operations or as part of a community’s quest for zero carbon...
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Clear Signals Make It Easier to Do the Right Things
I saw the best sign last week. We were on vacation in Florida when I spotted the sign (yes, geek alert…she takes pictures of signs while on vacation…). If you own an electric vehicle (EV) or follow the...
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Achieving Our Moonshot
I spent a few hours at the Kennedy Space Center recently. In the course of the tour there were at least three times that I saw footage of President John F. Kennedy’s 1962 speech urging Americans to...
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Accelerate EVs by Learning from Energy Efficiency
In the US about 30% of all emissions come from the transportation sector with about two-thirds of that from personal vehicles. The emissions from an EV vary, based on how clean the electricity...
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EV Owners Talk About Why They Love Driving an Electric Vehicle
In preparation for an Earth Day talk about electric vehicles (EVs) I did an informal survey of EV owners. The survey was not scientific, but it was informative. I simply posted a question in the...
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Achieving Big Climate Goals: What It Takes to Succeed
It’s exciting to see numerous communities committing to 100% clean energy. At this point half a dozen states and more than one hundred local communities have committed to eliminate carbon emissions....
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Are You Thinking About an EV?
Recently we participated in an Earth Day event at a library in Door County, Wisconsin. The event offered us an opportunity to interact with the general public so we decided to conduct a short survey...
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