1000 Friends of Wisconsin was created to protect and enhance Wisconsin’s urban and rural landscapes by providing citizens with the inspiration, information and tools they need to effectively participate in the decisions that have the greatest impact on community health: where we live, work, learn, play and how we get from one place to another. We accomplish our work through three major efforts:
(1) Promoting Implementation of Smart Growth
(2) Policy Development and Advocacy
(3) Research and Information Sharing

Natural Step in Ashland

Focus on Energy works with eligible Wisconsin
residents and businesses to install cost effective energy efficiency
and renewable energy projects. Focus information, resources and
financial incentives help to implement projects that otherwise would
not be completed, or to complete projects sooner than scheduled. Its
efforts help Wisconsin residents and businesses manage rising energy
costs, promote in-state economic development, protect our environment
and control the state's growing demand for electricity and natural gas.

We are a community of people with Green values.

We bet you'll like our network better than Facebook and MySpace. Unlike other networks, we:

• Believe in grassroots democracy, justice, sustainability and non-violence;
• Are commercial-free;
• Aren't owned by a greedy corporation;
• Are commercial-free; and,
• Have the best tools, like event organizing, to-do lists, online actions you can create, and much more.

Welcome to IEMEA - the Institute for Ecomunicipality Education & Assistance. Our purpose is
to provide support for emerging ecomunicipalities and those communities
interested in a systematic, comprehensive approach for changing to sustainable practices.

What is an ecomunicipality? It is a local government – a municipal or county government –
that has officially adopted a particular set of sustainability principles and
has committed to a bottom-up, participatory approach for implementing them. The
first ecomunicipalities developed in Sweden, beginning in the 1980s. The work of
the early ecomunicipalities became the model for Agenda 21, the Guide for Local
Sustainable Development that emerged from the 1992 Rio Summit – the
U.N. World Conference on Sustainable Development. As of 2006, there
were over 70 ecomunicipalities in Sweden, constituting 25 percent of all
municipalities in that country.

Midwest Renewable Energy Association - has many workshops during the year, as well as running the annual Energy Fair.

The Monona Natural Step Web Site

A storehouse of innovative public policies around the theme of - designing rules as if community matters

The main US based Natural Step Web Site

Smart Growth from the Transportation Perspective

We are a non-profit organization committed to creating communities
that deeply enjoy, care for and are sustained by their unique environment.

We know that many of our current practices as communities are
not sustainable and that together we need to find better ways to live in the world.

Given this perspective, we are committed to
taking an integrated approach to change.

The Wikipedia portal for Sustainable Development - lots of good resources here.

Dunn County Wisconsin Sustainable organization

Resource of green resources in metropolitan Minneapolis/St. Paul.

WiserEarth is the first open source network for global social change. Content is created by the users.