SUSTAINABILITY SPOTLIGHT Blog

Meg Erdenebat brings an international perspective and a passion for environmental action to her work. Originally from Mongolia, Meg is a college student studying Environmental Development at her main university in Japan and attended the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse through an international exchange program. This summer, she shared her talents with us at the Sustainability Institute as the Summer Program Intern, compiling and sharing stories from other local YCAF project

Kaitlyn Weihe, Sustainability Coordinator at Habitat for Humanity, is an advocate for practical, community-based climate solutions. She...

Charlee and the renewed garden beds. Charlee Gauger, a sophomore at the University of Minnesota majoring in Environmental Science, was...

Adela with City of La Crosse Mayor Shaundel Washington-Spivey during her 2025 project Extreme Weather Kits for Vulnerable Populations ....

In this Sustainability Chat, we sit down with Ishmael to explore his journey with a Youth Climate Action project. Ishmael was awarded a...

Aditi sharing her book "Tech Tales" Meet Aditi, a junior at Onalaska High School who is passionate about making sustainability easier for...

Kaarina Dunn on site of her 2024 YCAF Project: Upcycle Our Symphony Onalaska High School student, Kaarina Dunn ,  is already making waves...

Mahlivanh & Ella on site shooting their film - Ecosystem La Crosse: The Life of a Community Ella LeDocq, a 2024 graduate of Minnesota...

For our March Sustainability Chat we sat down to talk with Beth Piggush about her work around Land Justice. Beth is a sustainability...

Join us this February for an exciting Sustainability Chat with Ethos Green Power Cooperative ! In this session, we explored key questions...

Andrew at the Inspiring Sustainability Awards. In our January Sustainability Chat, we were joined by Andrew Ericson , Sustainability...

Check out December's Sustainability Chat with Eneration , the non-profit team behind the nation’s first energy-independent healthcare...

For the fall of 2024, Sustainability Chats are getting a new look! We will be recording our Sustainability Chats and releasing them...

Our June Sustainability featured The Nature Place - a 501 C3 organization positioned in the bottom of Myrick Park and along the La...

In our current culture, electronics are nearly a necessity and technology is ever changing. Unfortunately, that results in a lot of...

We kicked off 2024 by encouraging City of La Crosse residents to take on the Carbon Free Challenge . Lewis Kuhlman, Environmental City...

Our last Sustainability Chat of 2023 focused around the efforts and resources of La Crosse Area Waters - a collective of 10 local...

For our October Sustainability Chat, we heard from Dr. Teri Allendorf from Community Conservation . During the presentation, Dr....

Our Sustainability Chat for June highlighted the work of a fellow local nonprofit organization - Friends of the Blufflands. Friends of...

The City of La Crosse Parks Department is continuing a sustainable initiative this spring called, “No Mow May.” This program allows City...