Making Kenosha Green!

It only takes 5 minutes to complete the We Energies online form!

Go to: http://power.wisconsin.gov
Click on “Renewable Energy”
Select your County
Select your provider (We Energies)
Click on online request
(You need your We Energies Invoice for your customer number)

If you select to purchase 100% renewable energy, it will cost you about $10 per month.

Why should all Green Activists do it?

The Public Service Commission of the State regulates the Energy Providers and ensures that the money you spend for “Renewable Energy” is spent by the Provider (We Energies) to either buy or produce R.E.
…. and what you are buying from the Provider is added to the minimum base of Renewable Energy mandated by the State.

Our action drives We Energies to produce more Renewable Energy!

If not you, Who? If not now, When?

Thank you for your contribution to make Kenosha Green!

Curzio Caravati
Green Activist

Monday, June 23, 2008

Lt. Governor Announces New Online Tool to Help Homes and Businesses Make Switch to Renewable Energy

Lt Governor Barbara Lawton today announced an easy way to wean your home and business from fossil fuels with the launch of a new online tool designed to connect consumers to all they need to switch to renewable energy.

“All of us in Wisconsin cherish the beauty of our environment,” Lt. Gov. Lawton said. “And every one of us has the power to keep it clean and green. I want it to be as easy as a click of your mouse to make a change that will do just that and contribute to a robust green economy.”

Lawton announced the new web tool at Carolyn’s Coffee Connection, a downtown Kenosha coffee shop that makes sustainability the foundation for its profitable business. Owner Carolyn Berg has made the switch to 100 percent renewable energy as a source of electricity in both her home and business.

Lawton said that roughly 90 percent of residential utility customers have access to “green pricing programs,” which give consumers the option to pay a small premium to power their homes and businesses with renewable energy sources like wind, landfill gas and methane. Lawton provides the website as part of her Green Economy Agenda, to boost visibility of options utilities now make available across the state.

“People in every one of 72 counties have the option to power their homes with renewable energy, but only about 1.6 percent of them take advantage of this tremendous opportunity,” Lawton said. “Imagine what we could accomplish in terms of reducing our carbon emissions, increasing our energy independence and driving development of alternative energy sources if every one of us who can afford about $10 per month made the switch to renewable energy in our home and business.”

Lawton noted that renewable energy purchased through green pricing programs goes above and beyond the ten percent renewable energy requirement dictated by the Renewable Portfolio standard signed into law by Governor Jim Doyle in 2005.

Lawton said that each household that switches to renewable energy prevents a ton of coal from being burned. For every 1,000 homes that switch to 100 percent renewable energy, 3.28 million pounds of carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere — the equivalent of removing 300 cars from the road for a year. Lawton said she made the change in her Madison apartment and home in Algoma in just minutes.

“Wisconsin boasts a rich mix of resources being developed to power our homes and businesses in a way that increases our energy independence and reduces our carbon emissions,” Lawton said. “From wind to landfill gas to hydroelectric power to sources of energy not yet imagined, Wisconsin is poised the lead the transition to a renewable energy future that will mean new jobs and a strengthened economy.”

The website, hosted by the Office of Energy Independence, was created as part of Lawton’s Green Economy Agenda, a series of proposals to empower smart individual and institutional action related to climate change as a strategy to strengthen Wisconsin’s competitive position in a global economy.

Those interested in purchasing renewable energy for their home or business can visit the Office of Energy Independence website at: http://power.wisconsin.gov and click on “Renewable Energy.”

We have a temporary logo and new t-shirt to get things rolling for Green Kenosha. My dad printed the t-shirts on white shirts because I needed them printed quickly. Now that we will be ordering them you can choose a white or a green shirt.

We’re asking that all volunteers at upcoming summer events have and wear their Green Kenosha T-shirts.

If you would like a shirt please click HERE

to respond to this message with your name, phone number, color and the size you need.

They cost $10.00 a shirt.

Sizes range from S-XL (they are 100% pure cotton and may shrink-keep
that in mind) although they do run a little big.

Please bring your payments to the next Green Kenosha meeting(July 9th, Gateway,
Room 120 6-7:30pm) or call me if you cannot make the meeting. Thank you.
262-825-7632.

Thank you!

Adrienne N Roach
WLCV Southeast Organizer

Green Kenosha will be collecting recyclables and signing up new members at the Kenosha Harbor Market this summer. Green Kenosha will be tabling in conjuction with the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters. The League will be working on a Public Health campaign to raise awareness about mercury and lead exposure, as well as the environmental causes of asthma and cancer.

We would like to have at least 4-5 people per weekend volunteering at the booth. Saturday, June 21st, we will have a Green Kenosha banner made out of recycled material. Children at the market will be asked to use their artistic skills to decorate the Green Kenosha banner. We will need volunteers to help the kids, sign up new members, help get postcards signed on the public health issues and set up and take down the booth. (We may also be administering mercury exposure tests)

The Harbor market runs from 9am-2pm.

Please sign up in shifts or indicate if you would like to volunteer
all day.

1st Shift: 8:30-11:30
2nd Shift: 11:00-1:00
3rd Shift: 12:30-2:30

Green Kenosha and WLCV will be at the Harbor Market:

Saturday, June 21st
Saturday, June 28th
Saturday, July 12th
Saturday, July 26th

(More dates may follow in August)

Please indicate the date and shift(s) for which you’d like to
volunteer!

E-mail Adrienne if you are interested.

Thank you and Stay Green!

-Adrienne Roach

June 21st, 2008
8:00a.m. - 2:30p.m.

Recycle, recover and re-use!

Over 30 households to share in a neighborhood yard sale organized by Green Kenosha - Lakeshore, from 59th Street to 75th Street, covering First Avenue to St James Cemetery.

This will be the big event of the summer. Antiques, furniture and appliances, children toys and clothes, a fishing boat. STUFF! (and lots of it.) Please drop on down to the Lakefront to recycle, recover and re-use!

Click HERE to see more pictures

Celebrate Earth Day was a huge success…

THANK YOU to all the attendants…
THANK YOU to all the organizers…
THANK YOU to all the volunteers…

THANK YOU!

Get involved, help us to make Kenosha GREEN !

When: Saturday April 26, 2008 ~ 10 am - 2:00 pm
Where: Gateway Technical College
3520 – 30th Avenue
Kenosha WI 53144

Celebrate Earth Day, April 26, 2008 is a community celebration of our planet. Gateway, along with Green Kenosha, Snap-on, Incorporated and many other Kenosha organizations concerned with the environment, invites the community to come to our Kenosha Campus (3520-30th Avenue) to Learn, Drop-off refuse and hard to dispose of items (mostly electronic), Pick-up compost, prairie seeds and a gift, and to Enjoy.

The event will be held from 10:00 a.m. -2:00 p.m. The majority of activities will be held in and around the Madrigrano Auditorium (northwest corner of campus) and the Horticulture buildings (center west end of campus).

A groundbreaking ceremony for the new Gateway Prairie, to the north of the Auditorium and parking lot will take place at 1:30 p.m.

Please visit this site over the next month to get additional details on workshops, informational booths, demonstrations, and community clean-up procedures.

Sign-up to the Yahoo Group GreenKenosha

GreenKenosha has working subgroups with names of people to contact + info on meetings posted on our Yahoo Groups web site - click on Database to see the charts with subgroup meetings info and subgroup member names!

in order to see this info (click on Database), interested parties need to log-in to YahooGroups

Giving is nice and the season’s
a blast, take the time to help
the environment last.

The years come and go and my
how they fly, don’t let the
opportunity to be green pass
you by.

When your time is done and all
seasons have past, don’t you
want be remembered for
giving a gift that will last?

So be green this year and thru
all that may come, for this
worthy green work can be lots
of fun.

Our world is small and it’s our
only one, so please partake in
the work to be done.

Reduced, reuse, refuse, and
recycle you say; let’s really
mean it and not be cliché.

To you and your family at this
very special time, we give to
you this note worthy rhyme.

Let’s get out side to enjoy every
day, and remember being green
is the only way.

By Rob Zerban

1. BYOB – Bring Your Own Bag when you shop. Refuse the plastic bag at the store.
2. Buy Locally – Support local businesses, saves on CO2 emissions by reducing driving and shipping expenses.
3. LED’s for trees – LED lights use less energy to light up your holidays.
4. Give the gift of savings - Compact Florescent Bulbs make a great energy efficient gift that keeps on giving all year long.
5. Travel Wisely – Car pool, when shopping, use your bike and when you fly, buy green credits when you purchase your ticket
6. Give the gift of Time – Get out side and enjoy the Green out doors. Green activities include skiing, hiking, biking, with friends and family and promote a healthy life style.
7. Reduce, Refuse, Reuse, Recycle – Reduce consumption, Refuse waste, Reuse anything, and Recycle everything. Forget the tinsel and the fake snow, in order to recycle that must go.
8. Green Books as a gift – Educate on how to be green, Great Lakes Water Wars, Better Basics for the Home are a couple books for Green reading.
9. Recycle wrapping paper – Remember how Grandma always opened her presents, slow and careful? She saved the wrapping paper for next year. Grandma was Green.
10. Regifting is green – Regift the sweater you never wear, the holidays are the time to share.
11. Turn down the lights – Dim the lights to enjoy the show, being romantic is Green don’t you know.
12. Buy Organic - Fair trade and enviromentally friendly gifts.