General Resources

Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin
www.bfw.org

The Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin (BFW) is a statewide, nonprofit, bicycle advocacy organization working to make Wisconsin a better place to bike.

Community Car
www.communitycar.com

Community Car is a membership-based car-sharing service that provides high-gas-mileage and hybrid-electric cars by the hour for individuals, organizations and businesses.

Dane Buy Local
www.danebuylocal.com

Dane Buy Local is an association of locally-owned, independent businesses in Dane County that promotes buying locally and strengthening the local business community.

Dane County Farmers Market
www.madfarmmkt.org

The largest producer-only farmers’ market in the country. All items are produced locally by the vendor behind the table. No resale allowed. Outdoors on the Square in Madison April to November, indoors during the winter.

Dane County Timebank Network
www.danecountytimebank.org

The Dane County Timebank is a network of Timebanks in Dane County partnering with local organizations to develop programs to meet local needs.

Energy Center of Wisconsin
www.ecw.org

The Energy Center of Wisconsin is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving energy sustainability including support of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and environmental protection.

Family Farm Defenders
www.familyfarmdefenders.org

Family Farm Defenders works to create a farmer-controlled and consumer-oriented food and fiber system, based upon democratically controlled institutions that empower farmers to speak for and respect themselves in their quest for social and economic justice. FFD has worked to create opportunities for farmers to join together in new cooperative endeavors, form a mutual marketing agency and forge alliances with consumers through providing high-quality food products while returning a fair price to farmers.

Focus on Energy
www.focusonenergy.com

Focus on Energy works with eligible Wisconsin residents and businesses to install cost effective energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. Its efforts help Wisconsin residents and businesses manage rising energy costs, promote in-state economic development, protect our environment and control the state's growing demand for electricity and natural gas.

Green Built Home
www.greenbuilthome.org

Green Built Home™ is a national award-winning green building initiative that reviews and certifies new homes and remodeling projects that meet sustainable building and energy standards. The program is implemented in partnership with the Madison Area Builders Association in cooperation with other participating builders associations, leading utilities and organizations that promote green building.

Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition
www.macsac.org

The Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Coalition works to create a sustainable, just, and locally based food system in Southern Wisconsin by promoting and supporting CSA farms, coordinating community and farmer education programs about the benefits of locally, sustainably grown foods, and operating the Partner Shares Program which raises funds to subsidize CSA memberships for households on a limited income.

Madison Homebrewers and Tasters Guild
www.mhtg.org

The Madison Homebrewers and Tasters Guild is a nonprofit organization created to “aid and educate members in the appreciation and legal production of fermented malt beverages, including those brewed at home and those brewed commercially”.

Madison Hours Cooperative
www.madisonhours.org

The primary mission of the co-op is to create and sustain a local currency in order to promote economic equity and well-being and to promote cooperation among community members. Cooperative philosophy and values are an essential part of our enterprise.

MeGoGreen
www.megogreen.com

Marketing and fundraising organization focused on promoting local, sustainable products and services through its website and a print guide to green living.

REAP Food Group
www.reapfoodgroup.org

REAP stands for Research, Education, Action and Policy. Its mission is to build a regional food system that is "healthful, just, and both environmentally and economically sustainable." REAP connects producers, consumers, policy-makers, educators, businesses and organizations to nourish the links between land and table.

Renew Wisconsin
www.renewwisconsin.org

Renew Wisconsin promotes clean-energy strategies - conservation and energy effciency, renewable energy, and low-emission distributed generation - for powering the state's economy in an environmentally sound manner.

Sustain Dane
www.sustaindane.org

Sustain Dane is a non-profit organization committed to creating communities that deeply enjoy, care for and are sustained by their unique environment.

UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Studies
www.cias.wisc.edu

The Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) is a research center at the University of Wisconsin's College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, created in 1989 to build UW sustainable agriculture research programs that respond to farmer and citizen needs, and involve them in setting research agendas.

Westside Community Market
www.westsidecommunitymarket.org

The Westside Community Market is a vendor-run farmers' market in Madison featuring fresh, locally grown, raised or produced: vegetables, fruits, berries, meats, cheeses, baked goods, bedding and blooming locally acclimatized plants, cut flowers, native perennials, dairy, eggs, mushrooms, pickles, preserves, honey and more.