Welcome
After completing a nationally
recognized five-year, $29 million investment in energy efficiency of the campus, UW-Madison initiated
another aggressive program in 2006 to further strengthen its
environmental stewardship practices and to promote education and
motivation to the community on this important issue.
This program, under the banner of WE CONSERVE, set
to reduce UW's annual energy consumption and environmental
footprint by 20% relative to 2006 levels. With an
additional investment of $40 million and full campus support
that goal was achieved in 2010, making us one of the most
accomplished universities in the sustainability arena.
Building on these achievements, we are determined to make our
campus enormously sustainable and our community highly
informed and engaged. Our ideas, decisions, and
practices will demonstrate to the world that conservation and
waste prevention is smart, possible, painless, and essential.This website is intended to seek your input
and ideas for achieving this important goal and to help
facilitate communication and education to all. Please get
involved and Be a
Waste
eliminator!
Thank
you! |