La Crosse Earth Week events and participation in them definitely entered a new arena in 2009. Many factors making this possible came together including the creation of a new Green La Crosse.com website, an active Earth Week planning committee, and collaboration between a number of organizations in the La Crosse area including UW-La Crosse, Viterbo University, Western Technical College, Gundersen Lutheran, the City and County of La Crosse, the La Crosse Public Library, Three Rivers Waldorf School, Myrick Hixon Ecopark, and Coulee Partners for Sustainability (CPS). Our thanks to all of them for their support and involvement.
While Earth Week has been an annual milestone since 1970, the work being done to promote sustainability on our campus, as well as in our community, state, nation and world, must continue each and every day. There's no time to sit back and rest on our Earth Week accomplishments. Let's expand our sustainability efforts so that on Earth Week 2010 we can look back and marvel at all we have accomplished during another year.
