World Owl Conference

 

WHERE THE CITY AND NATURE MEET.

The Driftless Area was spared by the most recent glaciers and as a result is characterized by steep forested hillsides, deep river valleys, and karst topography. Local habitats include eastern deciduous forest, marshes, and dry bluff prairies.

Denver Holt is the founder and president of the Owl Research Institute and Ninepipes Wildlife Research Center, a non-profit organization in Charlo, Montana dedicated to long-term field research. He has been studying owls for over 40 years, including 29 years working with Snowy Owls and 33 years with Long-eared Owls, among the many species he has investigated over the decades. He has published over 100 papers and technical documents about owls, including four species accounts for Birds of North America and served as the team leader for the Strigidae species accounts for The Handbook of the Birds of the World.

Denver’s keynote presentation will not focus on the sexy Snowy Owl, but rather the lesser understood Long-eared Owl. He and his team have found over 250 nests and banded over 2,000 individuals over the decades. This has allowed him to look at composition of winter roosts, mating systems, stress hormones, plumage differences between the sexes, and to document their declining numbers.

More information and registration here: https://www.worldowlconference.com/

October 6-8 Solar La Crosse Tour!

SOLAR LA CROSSE TOUR

 

This year, for the first time, the City of

La Crosse will participate in the

National Solar Tour!

Friday, 10/6 - Special Solar School Tour!

Saturday, 10/7: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and

 Sunday, 10/8: 1 to 4 p.m.

On-your-own tour of solar sites in La Crosse

Have you been considering solar but would like to learn more about the process? Are you unsure about how to get started or how to find installers?

This on-your-own tour of solar installations in La Crosse will help you get answers to your questions and talk to those who have already taken the step!

Friday, October 6 from 3 to 4 p.m.: Tour the solar installation at Hamilton

Elementary School, 1111 7th Street South and learn more about SOLS (Solar on La Crosse Schools).

There will be information about the project, speakers, treats, activities, and information about how we can support SOLS in its efforts to get solar sooner on district schools.

A tour of the installation will begin at 3:15 p.m. after introductory remarks by speakers, including Dr. Aaron Engel, Superintendent of the La Crosse School District. Learn more about Solar on La Crosse Schools here.

On Saturday, October 7 and Sunday, October 8, check out tour sites on your own.

Thank you for participating!
See you at next year's tour!

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RESOURCES

View the National Solar Tour Brochure here. 

The City of La Crosse has several resources for those considering solar installations. Visit the Getting Started With Solar page for information, resources, links, and more. Its Climate Action Plan includes several ideas for what individuals, businesses, and non-profits can do to help the city realize its goal of reducing net carbon emissions to zero by 2050.

The Sierra Club's Ready for 100 program and Clean Energy Toolkit helped hundreds of U.S. communities, including the City and County of La Crosse, take solar action. The Wisconsin chapter's Clean and Renewable Energy work provides pathways for individuals to join together and push for more, faster, and more accessible renewable energy. It's Solar website offers stories and links for anyone interested in solar power.

The American Solar Energy Society offers webinars, resources, and iitiatives to help everyone learn about and go solar. Its new Tiny Watts program focuses on the phone charges, lights, and other small but powerful devices that can use solar right now. It's Solar Energy Workbook is a resource for "anyone from 8 to 80 to learn about solar and other renewables."

This U.S. government website (https://betterbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.gov/renewables/financing) has information and resources covering solar project financing for everyone from homeowners and landlords to business owners and governments. 

CO-SPONSORS

Coulee Region Sierra Club The Sierra Club is the most enduring and influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States. We amplify the power of our millions of members and supporters to defend everyone’s right to a healthy world.The Coulee Region Group is part of the Wisconsin Chapter of the Sierra Club. Our members come from eight western Wisconsin counties: Crawford, Grant, Jackson, La Crosse, Richland, Trempealeau, and Vernon. Please join us!

 

Climate Alliance for the Common Good Climate Alliance for the Common Good wants to help people learn about climate change and what we can do to address it. Empowered people have hope. We have the technology we need to win the fight against climate change.  We need to work together to create the political and social will to act as a community and through individual actions.

 

La Crosse Climate Action Plan The City of La Crosse Council passed a resolution in July 2019, pledging to reduce the city's community wide carbon emissions to zero by 2050. In 2022, the City engaged paleBLUEdot LLC to guide a year-long effort by a team of nearly 50 community members to create its first Climate Action Plan. The plan provides goals and actions steps to help the city reduce carbon emissions by 50 percent (from 2019 levels) by the year 2030. In January 2023, the plan was adopted by the City Council and is now being implemented.

Solar on La Crosse Schools (SOLS), is a grassroots group of students, families, teachers, and community members educating, advocating, and fundraising to make solar energy a reality sooner for the School District of La Crosse. The group is 100% volunteer-powered and all funds raised go, through the La Crosse Public Education Foundation, to putting clean energy on schools. 

Ethos Green Power Co-op   Ethos was founded as a single owner LLC in 2013, by our Visionary, Alicia Leinberger. From the beginning, her vision for success and sustainability had always been to one day transition Ethos to a worker-owned coop. In 2020 we accomplished that vision and re-incorporated as Ethos Green Power Cooperative. This means, when you hire us for your project, you've hired a team of invested owners, each with unique expertise and perspective. We believe this diverse structure creates a strong foundation from which we create value for you, and ultimately achieve our Core Focus.