The Climate Action Mapping Project CWG seeks to encourage collaboration and innovation on climate change initiatives among Wisconsin’s organizations, businesses, municipalities, and individuals. To accomplish this, we are creating a web-based resource designed to help those interested in particular climate-related issues find like-minded people and groups, learn what initiatives are already happening, and suggest new initiatives and partnerships.

To join this CWG, please complete the CCST interest form here, and we will contact you for an orientation to CCST and especially to the Climate Action Mapping Project CWG. If you are already a member of CCST, email susan.millar@350wisconsin.org.

The Dane County CWG interacts with county supervisors and the county’s Office of Energy and Climate Change to help implement key elements of Dane County’s spring 2020 Climate Action Plan. As of fall 2022, we are focusing on agricultural policy and practices, the Capitol Area Regional Planning Commission, the Dane County Board of Supervisors, and encouraging organizations to apply to these four categories of the Dane County Office of Energy and Climate Change’s Climate Champion Program: Building Energy Use; Building Design; Sustainable Land Use; and Water Saving Practices. If you live in Dane County, we need your voice!

To join this CWG, please complete the CCST interest form here, and we will contact you for an orientation to CCST. If you are already a member of CCST, email mjfriend0316@gmail.com.

Launched in fall 2022, the Energy Equity Working Group (WG) is dedicated to ensuring a just and equitable transition to a fossil fuel–free energy system for all Wisconsin residents, including the most economically vulnerable. We are currently investigating high energy burden and energy insecurity in the region’s low-income communities and advocating for climate-just solutions that will help ensure the health and resilience of people and the planet. Whatever your talents — research, writing, advocacy, community organizing — we invite you to join us in this crucial work.

To join this CWG, please complete the CCST interest form here, and we will contact you for an orientation to CCST and especially to the Energy Equity Working Group. If you are already a member of CCST, email susan.millar@350wisconsin.org.

The Fitchburg CWG urges our Common Council to achieve the goals stated in Fitchburg’s 2019 Clean Energy Resolution. To do this, we comment at relevant Common Council and commission meetings, testify in support of actions such as fleet upgrades to electric vehicles and the 20MW O’Brien Solar Farm, which provides electricity to the city and various Fitchburg businesses. Currently, we are advocating for sustainability features in a new senior living complex in the Terravessa neighborhood. If you live in Fitchburg, we need your voice!

To join this CWG, please complete the CCST interest form here, and we will contact you for an orientation to CCST and especially to the Fitchburg CWG. If you are already a member of CCST, email susan.millar@350wisconsin.org.

The City of Madison published its Sustainability Plan in 2011, and its 100% Renewable Energy report in 2018. While it has moved the needle on some of the goals stated in these plans, much remains to be done, and city leaders have made clear that they need to hear citizens’ voices. Our CWG is interacting with our alders and key city staff, conducting relevant research, and otherwise helping our community reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve other critical climate goals. If you live in Madison, we need your voice!

To join this CWG, please complete the CCST interest form here, and we will contact you for an orientation to CCST and especially to the Madison CWG. If you are already a member of CCST, email susan.millar@350wisconsin.org.

To fulfill CCST’s goals, the Middleton Community Working Group (CWG) needs volunteers to play roles such as:

• Alder Liaison – communicating with their alder about addressing climate change locally, developing clean energy, and more
• Public Commenters – presenting comments during council and other meetings in support of climate action
• City Meeting Monitors – keeping our CWG aware of relevant climate agenda topics
• Special Action Group member – to focus on emerging issues and opportunities such as municipal golf course decarbonization and beneficial electrification of city operations

If you live in Middleton, we need your voice!

To join this CWG, please complete the CCST interest form here, and we will contact you for an orientation to CCST and especially to the Middleton CWG. If you are already a member of CCST, email susan.millar@350wisconsin.org.

The UW Wisconsin CWG has engaged in actions such as helping the UW Faculty Senate and Academic Staff Assembly pass a resolution on fossil fuel divestment by the UW Foundation and Alumni Association. We continue to pressure the UW Foundation to be more transparent about its investments in fossil fuels and to improve cooperation with other climate groups on campus. In addition, we recruit UW students to join the other CCST Community Working Groups that are directly addressing city, county, and state climate issues.

To join this CWG, please complete the CCST interest form here, and we will contact you for an orientation to CCST and especially to the UW–Madison CWG. If you are already a member of CCST, emailsusan.millar@350wisconsin.org.