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Adams Outdoor Makes Dane County's Billboards Green
Adams Outdoor plays a big part in the Greater Madison area's environment. Now, Adams Outdoor is really enhancing the region's environment by converting the heavy vinyl that billboards are printed on - to 100% recyclable material. They are the first in the Madison area to be using this material. After their run, the new material can now be returned to the printer, shredded and pressed into new billboard vinyl. Not to say that Adams Outdoor didn't find uses for that old, non-recyclable material. "We shipped a lot down to the Gulf coast for Katrina hurricane relief, to cover roofs and homes", said Chris Eigenberger, general manager for Adams Outdoor in Madison.

Dane County Regional Airport Earns Green Building Award
In September, Dane County Regional Airport received a Wisconsin Sustainability & Energy Efficiency Leadership Award (SE2) for its terminal renovation and expansion project. The judges wrote, “From the incorporation of the existing building and the reuse of 97 percent of demolition and site development waste to the use of locally-made construction products, low VOC materials and finishes, and products with high recycled content, they did just about everything a sustainable project should do. And very attractively, to boot.”

City of Madison Debuts Five Hybrid Electric Metro Buses
In September 2007, the City of Madison introduced five diesel-electric hybrid buses in the Metro Transit fleet, the first such vehicles in the State of Wisconsin. The city has agreed to purchase 10 more hybrid buses over the next four years.

Monona Terrace Becomes First Existing Convention Center in the Nation to Earn the Silver Level LEED-EB Certification
In August 2007, Monona Terrace® Community and Convention Center earned a "silver" certification under the LEED program for existing buildings (LEED-EB). LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a national program of the U.S. Green Building Council that sets the benchmark for high performance "green" buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work.

New GMCVB Ad Campaign

Bring Your Meeting Home campaign Ad

Bring Your Meeting Home

Meetings & Conventions sales Ad

Intellectual and Emotional Capital

Winter Leisure Ad

Winter Lesiure Ad

Leisure Ad

Get a Grip

Madison Set to Receive Federal Solar City Grant
In June 2007, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that Madison was one of thirteen U.S. cities to receive an inaugural Solar America Cities Award as part of the DOE’s "Solar America Initiative: Solar Market Transformation for Solar City Strategy Partnerships" fund. A total of $2.5 million was awarded to the 13 cities. The City's goal is to double solar use in the city by 2009.

Dane County Regional Airport Receives Environmental Achievement Award
In August 2007, Dane County Regional Airport (DCRA), along with three much larger airports (San Francisco International, Portland International and Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport) was named as one of four airports in the nation to receive an Environmental Achievement Award from the Airports Council International - North America (ACI-NA). DCRA was recognized for its efforts in restoring wetlands and the Starkweather Creek while improving a runway safety area.

Alliant Energy Center Travel Green Wisconsin Certified
Alliant Energy Center recently became a green certified business by Travel Green Wisconsin, a business certification program formed by the Wisconsin Department of Tourism with the collaboration of the Wisconsin Environmental Initiative. Travel Green Wisconsin was designed to encourage hospitality-related businesses to "do well by doing good," by bringing awareness and a marketing advantage to businesses committed to making measurable environmental improvements in their operations.