Author: Correspondent

The City of Milwaukee’s Environmental Collaboration Office (ECO) celebrated its most successful year of the Greater Milwaukee solar group purchase program on November 10, with 64 home and business owners installing 421 kilowatts of new solar installations. In partnership with renewable energy non-profit the Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA), the group buy program helps greater Milwaukee residents invest in lower-cost solar installations through the power of volume purchasing. A solar group buy occurs when community members use their collective buying power to save on the total cost of going solar. “Milwaukee is committed to addressing the threat of climate...

The Milwaukee Soldiers Home and Milwaukee Preservation Alliance, along with project partner The Alexander Company, received a Richard H. Driehaus Foundation National Preservation Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation at PastForward, the National Trust’s annual conference on November 4. Each year, the national award recognizes and celebrates “the best of the best” preservation projects across the country that have leveraged cutting-edge, innovative and impactful approaches to preservation. This is the highest national recognition bestowed upon a preservation project by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. “We feel incredibly honored to receive this award,” said Jeremy Ebersole, Executive...