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Community Transportation Academy: La Crosse transit tour!

Image: an electric bus full of eager Community Transportation Academy participants. Last week we passed the halfway mark at the Community...

Susan on the road! Part 2: Wisconsin Rapids, WI

1000 Friends of Wisconsin was awarded a grant from COWS in partnership with three Green Tier Legacy Communities (GTLC) to improve...

Susan on the road! Part 1: Stevens Point, WI

1000 Friends of Wisconsin was awarded a grant from COWS in partnership with three Green Tier Legacy Communities (GTLC) to improve...

Terrace Town 2022

At 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, we believe that people of all ages can benefit from learning about sustainable land use; it’s not just for...

Community Highlight: Watertown Winter Loop

Special thanks to Susan Wollin from Get Healthy Watertown and Randy Wojtaskiak, Watertown’s Director of Parks & Recreation, for...

Community Highlight: Marshfield, WI & Marshfield Clinic Health System (MCHS)

Special thanks to the following individuals for taking the time to share information for this article: Amber Corcoran (MCHS), Emily...

January 2022 e-news

Read the January 2022 e-news. In this issue: Community Highlight Invitation to our 2022 Webinar series Active winter living Pilot project...

Community Highlight: Steve Arnold & Bike Fitchburg

This month we are highlighting Steve Arnold, a local leader who has worked tirelessly for decades to implement bike-friendly programs and...

Pop-up Crosswalk for Safety and Neighborhood Connection

Members of the Sacred Heart Neighborhood Association in Oshkosh were talking about how they wanted to meet and better connect with their...

Watertown - Moving Forward for 30

Get Healthy Watertown (GHW), Watertown’s community health and wellness coalition and Wisconsin Active Together (WAT) community, worked...