From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online:
The proposed five-story vertical farm - dramatic in shape and with an expansive, sloped glass front to absorb natural light - would be built at Growing Power's existing 2-acre farm at 5500 W. Silver Spring Drive through local and federal donations and grants. A half-dozen existing greenhouses would be preserved as historic structures. The estimated cost is $7 million to $10 million dollars.
It would have 23,000 square feet for classrooms, a demonstration kitchen, offices, staff locker room, retail store, food processing, loading dock and freezers. An additional 15,000 square feet of sloped area, facing Silver Spring Drive, would be devoted to growing vegetables and fish. Fish tanks for perch and tilapia would be trenched into the ground. The building would have a rooftop solar panel, would capture rainwater to be recycled for watering plants, and would transfer heat from the building top to a thermal mass underneath to store for future use.
Read the entire article
Monday, May 3, 2010
Will Allen Picked for TIME Magazine 100
Will Allen, founder and CEO of Growing Power, Inc. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin was named one of the 100 people who most affect our world in the 2010 TIME Magazine 100: The World's Most Influential People . Read the article in TIME magazine.
Monday, April 26, 2010
David Helbach, Secretary of the State Building Commission and administrator for the Division of State Facilities speaks at UW-L
On Friday, April 24, David Helbach, Secretary of the State Building Commission and administrator for the Division of State Facilities spoke in UW-L's Cartwright Center about state run coal-fired heating plants and other issues relating to WI state owned and operated facilities. You can hear a podcast of his presentation and question and answer period.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Earth Week Events at UW-La Crosse and in La Crosse
Monday, April 19
Composting Teach-in
6:30pm
339 Cartwright
Learn all the dirt about composting!
UW-L Parking Ramp Open Forum
12:00 pm
Port O' Call, Cartwright Center
Segregated University Fee Allocation Committee (SUFAC)
Discussing Green Fund proposals
5:30
326 Cartwright Center
Tuesday, April 20
Dumpster Dive
11-3:00 Hoeschler Clock Tower
People will be dumpster diving for recyclables.
Wednesday, April 21
Neighborhood Clean Up
4:15 p.m.
Meet at the Hoeschler Clock Tower
Bus Route Vote and Green Fund Discussions at Student Senate
Port O' Call, Cartwright Center
TBD
Meteor Shower Night Hike
10:00pm
Meet in Hixon Forest main parking lot at the base of the bluffs
Thursday, April 22
Literacy and Lyrics
Noon-4:00pm
Gazebo by Whitney
Donate books and listen to free local music
Friday, April 23
David Helbach, Secretary of the State Building Commission and administrator for the Division of State Facilities
9:30 a.m.
Port O' Call in Cartwright.
Discussion will include the state heating plant and the costs and benefits of moving off of coal.
Green Rock Fest
7:30pm (show starts) Concordia ballroom
Free music and food! Ages 18+
Featuring: Furlow Riders, Fayme Rochelle & the Waxwings, Hyphon
Saturday, April 23
Earth Fair
11am-5:00pm
Three Rivers Waldorf School
Green Expo
11am-4:00pm in Western Technical College Lunda Center
**Shuttle bus available between these to events
To view community earth month events use the following link:
http://www.greenlacrosse.com/earth-month-2010.asp
Composting Teach-in
6:30pm
339 Cartwright
Learn all the dirt about composting!
UW-L Parking Ramp Open Forum
12:00 pm
Port O' Call, Cartwright Center
Segregated University Fee Allocation Committee (SUFAC)
Discussing Green Fund proposals
5:30
326 Cartwright Center
Tuesday, April 20
Dumpster Dive
11-3:00 Hoeschler Clock Tower
People will be dumpster diving for recyclables.
Wednesday, April 21
Neighborhood Clean Up
4:15 p.m.
Meet at the Hoeschler Clock Tower
Bus Route Vote and Green Fund Discussions at Student Senate
Port O' Call, Cartwright Center
TBD
Meteor Shower Night Hike
10:00pm
Meet in Hixon Forest main parking lot at the base of the bluffs
Thursday, April 22
Literacy and Lyrics
Noon-4:00pm
Gazebo by Whitney
Donate books and listen to free local music
Friday, April 23
David Helbach, Secretary of the State Building Commission and administrator for the Division of State Facilities
9:30 a.m.
Port O' Call in Cartwright.
Discussion will include the state heating plant and the costs and benefits of moving off of coal.
Green Rock Fest
7:30pm (show starts) Concordia ballroom
Free music and food! Ages 18+
Featuring: Furlow Riders, Fayme Rochelle & the Waxwings, Hyphon
Saturday, April 23
Earth Fair
11am-5:00pm
Three Rivers Waldorf School
Green Expo
11am-4:00pm in Western Technical College Lunda Center
**Shuttle bus available between these to events
To view community earth month events use the following link:
http://www.greenlacrosse.com/earth-month-2010.asp
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Coal Mine Disaster Vigil at UW-La Crosse
Students involved with efforts against the burning of coal at the UW-La Crosse coal-fired heating plant are holding a candle-lit vigil Tuesday, April 6 at 8:00 p.m. in the clearing to the west of the campus heating plant to acknowledge the loss of life at a coal mine explosion Monday afternoon in West Virginia. Massey Energy Corporation owns the Upper Big Branch coal mine, about 30 miles south of Charleston, and is one of two energy companies in a contract to supply coal to a dozen State of Wisconsin coal plants, including the facility at UW-La Crosse.
The UW-La Crosse “No Coal Coalition”, whose members include UW-L Progressives and Environmental Council, is sponsoring the vigil and inviting students, faculty, staff, and community members to attend and support the families of the twelve dead and ten missing coal miners in West Virginia as of early Tuesday morning. The No Coal Coalition demonstrated against Massey Energy Corporation’s destructive mountain-top removal coal mining practice in the Appalachian Mountains at an event on campus February 18, and have called for Governor Jim Doyle to end contracts with the company and Alpha Natural Resources.
Contacts:
Elizabeth Ward, UW-L Student, No Coal Coalition leader
Mobile: (608) 445-4489
Email: ward.eliz@students.uwlax.edu
Jeremy Gragert, UW-L Graduate Student, No Coal Coalition member
Mobile: (612) 220-1970
Email: gragert.jere@students.uwlax.edu
The UW-La Crosse “No Coal Coalition”, whose members include UW-L Progressives and Environmental Council, is sponsoring the vigil and inviting students, faculty, staff, and community members to attend and support the families of the twelve dead and ten missing coal miners in West Virginia as of early Tuesday morning. The No Coal Coalition demonstrated against Massey Energy Corporation’s destructive mountain-top removal coal mining practice in the Appalachian Mountains at an event on campus February 18, and have called for Governor Jim Doyle to end contracts with the company and Alpha Natural Resources.
Contacts:
Elizabeth Ward, UW-L Student, No Coal Coalition leader
Mobile: (608) 445-4489
Email: ward.eliz@students.uwlax.edu
Jeremy Gragert, UW-L Graduate Student, No Coal Coalition member
Mobile: (612) 220-1970
Email: gragert.jere@students.uwlax.edu
Monday, March 8, 2010
President of Trek Bicycle Corporation to Speak in La Crosse
On Tuesday, March 23 the first Western Wisconsin Bike Summit will take place at the Radisson Center. This local event was organized by a variety of area bicycling groups including Human Powered Trails and Driftless Region Bicycle Coalition in coordination with the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin and the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA). The Summit will offer opportunities in networking, learning and idea sharing. The Summit will connect regional business leaders, individuals and policymakers who have a shared interest in the benefits of bicycling for our community and region.
The keynote speaker for this event will be John Burke, President of the Trek Bicycle Corporation. Mr. Burke has been President of Trek since 1997 and has served as Chairman of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sport. He will be joined by Kevin Hardman, the Executive Director of the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin and Hansi Johnson, Midwest Regional Director of IMBA. Mr. Hardman is responsible for leading day-to-day operations including deployment of staff and programming, fundraising and sheparding the organization’s statewide legislative advocacy. Mr. Johnson currently works with 53 IMBA-affiliated clubs in five states to secure trail access and to advocate for sustainable trail development and the impacts of quality trails on community life. This event will take place at the Radisson Center, 200 Harborview Plaza in La Crosse. It will begin with a social hour and event booths from 5-6:30pm with a cash bar. At 6:30pm the program will begin. This event is a free event and is open to the public.
The keynote speaker for this event will be John Burke, President of the Trek Bicycle Corporation. Mr. Burke has been President of Trek since 1997 and has served as Chairman of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sport. He will be joined by Kevin Hardman, the Executive Director of the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin and Hansi Johnson, Midwest Regional Director of IMBA. Mr. Hardman is responsible for leading day-to-day operations including deployment of staff and programming, fundraising and sheparding the organization’s statewide legislative advocacy. Mr. Johnson currently works with 53 IMBA-affiliated clubs in five states to secure trail access and to advocate for sustainable trail development and the impacts of quality trails on community life. This event will take place at the Radisson Center, 200 Harborview Plaza in La Crosse. It will begin with a social hour and event booths from 5-6:30pm with a cash bar. At 6:30pm the program will begin. This event is a free event and is open to the public.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
WI State Coal-fired Heating Plants in News
From the Wisconsin State Journal, February 20, 2010
"The state will install more pollution controls, eliminate coal use or possibly shut down five coal-fired heating plants, the Wisconsin Department of Administration announced Friday.
"The state will install more pollution controls, eliminate coal use or possibly shut down five coal-fired heating plants, the Wisconsin Department of Administration announced Friday.
The plants are at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, UW campuses in Eau Claire, Oshkosh and River Falls, plus the Mendota Mental Health Institute in Madison.
The announcement came the same day the state Department of Natural Resources notified the DOA that five plants were not in compliance and five others needed reviews to determine whether they comply with clean-air regulations."
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