solutions story

The Clean Boats, Clean Waters program trains volunteers to perform boat checks and educate people about preventing the spread of aquatic invasive species. It’s become one of the most successful boat inspection programs in the country, and it all started as a middle school science project in northern Wisconsin.

A Milwaukee neighborhood in need of stable housing is offering a community-led solution.

As climate change increasingly burdens Milwaukee’s aging housing stock, the city’s Environmental Collaboration Office, or ECO, is working to connect homeowners with energy-saving resources and build new net-zero housing.

After nearly 30 years of partnering with south side residents, Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers has cut back its environmental health initiatives. The environmental team was recognized for coalition building and bringing people together. Now south side residents worry about the future of programs in their neighborhoods.

Increasingly disastrous weather events — due to climate change — are making people in parts of the country consider moving to the Midwest, where impacts are less harsh.

As climate change worsens around the world, so does the most frequent and costly natural disaster in Wisconsin: flooding. Hear what authors of a new study say about the challenges Milwaukee is facing — and how the city is preparing.

Milwaukee County’s Building Bridges program aims to help create and expand small businesses in Milwaukee County.

The Milwaukee County Transit System recently launched an apprenticeship program to train new mechanics and bus drivers. It comes at a time when ridership is up and the state is promoting paid training.

Pathfinders' Power of Paths Youth Action Board is helping the organization find solutions to youth homelessness with help from the people who best understand the problem — young people themselves.

Pancreatic cancer survivor Roger Caplinger and Dr. Doug Evans, who is working to further research and treatment of this cancer, share Caplinger's story.