While Earth Day serves as a yearly reminder to prioritize environmental consciousness and actions, it's crucial to extend this awareness beyond a single day. Celebrating our planet and respecting its resources should be routine. With numerous Earth Day events happening around WI, we invite everyone to participate, engage with YOUR communities, and promote sustainability together. We encourage you to explore events in your local area.

Here are a few we'd like to highlight:

The Cool Choices online game is driving sustainability actions in organizations and at home across Wisconsin!



Cool Choices empowers you to educate, act, and earn points while cultivating connections. The game is free for WSBC Members to play during the month of April.

Are you up for a challenge?

Make a positive impact even if you're not a member, you can still take part and inspire others to embrace sustainable practices! Based on this Cool Choices card, we challenge you to read a news article about climate change or sustainability and discuss your thoughts with someone.

Games are also available for organizations and communities to play!

2024 Cool Choices Team Rankings (as of 4.16)

Thank you to all who have joined the online Cool Choices community this year to participate!

Your contributions through sustainable actions make this event truly special, and we hope this fun online education and engagement with sustainability will further inspire your drive for sustainable change and impact.

Lands' End is a leading multi-channel international retailer of casual clothing, accessories, footwear and home products. Lands' End is legendary for high-quality products at an exceptional value, plus a commitment to world-class customer service.

Lands' End has always been committed to reducing their environmental impact and working towards bettering themselves and their environment. From their start as a retailer selling sailboat equipment for racing sailors, environmental consciousness has always been a point at Lands' End.

Lands' End is a leading multi-channel international retailer of casual clothing, accessories, footwear and home products. Lands' End is legendary for high-quality products at an exceptional value, plus a commitment to world-class customer service.

WasteCap Resources Solutions, a Milwaukee-based nonprofit, is working on a project with FEED Milwaukee, to conduct research on the scale of food waste in the city, to understand where and how we can divert and prevent food waste. This aligns with implementing Milwaukee’s ECO Office Climate & Equity Plan on reducing food waste. 

Phase 1 begins on April 1st, with sponsorship opportunities available to become a Founding Supporter with brand and logo recognition and additional co-branding opportunities for sponsorships $1k and above. The first $6k in funding is matched, and additional funding will allow multiple levels of the study to progress. Phase 1 will determine the volume of food waste which could be absorbed by the various demands and identify the environmental and economic impacts of food waste if directed to the highest and best use.

Please consider supporting this effort HERE or reach out with any questions to marketing@wastecap.org.

Update on the final SEC climate-related disclosures rule

The SEC’s Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors aims to address investors’ needs by adopting rules that require registrants to disclose certain information about climate-related risks that have materially impacted (or are reasonably likely to impact) a company’s business strategy, profit and losses financial statement, or financial condition. Initially announced in early 2022, the proposed rule has undergone notable modifications from its original form after considering approximately 24,000 stakeholder comments over the past few years.



Read More HERE

Statement from the SBTi Board of Trustees on use of environmental attribute certificates, including but not limited to voluntary carbon markets, for abatement purposes limited to scope 3

9th Apr 2024

Read More HERE

California Requires Reporting on Voluntary Carbon Offsets and Climate-Related Claims - A G&A Resource Paper

California became the first state to regulate the voluntary carbon market and climate-related claims after the Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Act (AB 1305) became effective on January 1, 2024. AB 1305 aims to address corporate “greenwashing” by increasing transparency into the voluntary carbon market and requiring public disclosure of substantiating evidence for climate-related claims. 



Download Paper HERE

Sustainability Research Hub will bring together UW researchers to secure major grants The Badger Herald

Opinion: Clean water is a basic human right. Yet many of us don't have it. Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service (NNS)

Madison joins international initiative to bring young perspectives to climate policy The Badger Herald

Dane County Landfill builds on decades of work towards sustainability WKOW

Greta Thunberg Research arrested at climate protest in The Hague The Hill

Working Together Towards 50 Million Acres of Cover Crops American Farmland Trust

A Tornado in February: Implementing Farmland Protection to Counter Climate Change American Farmland Trust

New Climate Justice Case Studies Highlight Inclusive Strategies USCA BCorp

Arrow Electronics Employees Participate in Month-Long Sustainability Commuting Challenge to Reduce Carbon Emissions CSRWIRE

This Effort Aims to Help Diverse Small Businesses in the Shipping Sector Scale Up TRIPLE PUNDIT

Cargill boosts renewable energy portfolio World-Grain

Steeper corporate emissions cuts needed by 2030 to keep Paris Agreement alive, analysis finds GreenBiz

'Carbon colonialism' in Africa meets resistance as companies seek to sell carbon credits from conservation projects that often upend local livelihoods - or worse FORTUNE

The new U.S. 'Green Bank' is Part of a Great American Tradition TRIPLE PUNDIT

The inaugural list of changemakers making tangible impacts on climate policy.

The leaders adapting and mitigating the impacts of climate change are as far away as the corridors of Washington, D.C., and as close as your local town hall. 

The GreenBiz 2024 Climate Policy Heroes list highlights 15 of these leaders doing vital work to confront the climate crisis at the state, federal and local levels. Each honoree was nominated by their peers for their commitment and their tangible achievements, and each has carved a path toward transformative, creative and measurable change. 



Read More HERE

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We are currently seeking business leaders who are interested in serving in this role.

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