EXPO Partners

As of April 28, 2009

Aldo Leopold Nature Center

The mission of the Aldo Leopold Nature Center is to provide innovative, hands-on programs for children and their families and teachers that “...teach the student to see the land, to understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.” in the spirit of famed Wisconsin ecologist Aldo Leopold.

Through year-round programs, ALNC fosters admiration and respect for nature, encourages sustainability and stewardship of the land, and provides opportunities for families to connect with nature.

Artterro

The owners of Artterro searched high and low for eco-friendly, open-ended art projects with beautiful materials but they were nowhere to be found. Most kits on the market offer lots of glitzy packaging but disappoint after opening the box. You’re left with a handful of cheap materials and a cookie-cutter project that ends up in the trash a week later.

Kids appreciate quality art materials! Beautiful supplies inspire them to create amazing things, just like they do for adults. Children easily immerse themselves in the process, often unattached to the final product, and their enthusiasm is contagious! Works of art composed with Artterro's high-quality materials become treasures artists young and old proudly display.

Artterro wants to make it easier for people to bring art into their lives. Artterro kits are for kids, families, seasoned artists and novices alike. They’ve done the sourcing and shopping, helping busy people bring a creative, meaningful activity home to their families. They have experience taking four and seven-year-olds along to art and craft stores, attempting to gather supplies for a family project, which is not an easy task!

So, out of love and inspiration, Artterro was born and being creative dreamers ourselves, have lots of plans in the works for the future. Bringing these projects into their own lives has deepened connections to families and friends and they are excited to provide this experience to your families as well.

Avant Gardening and Landscaping

As the name implies, Avant is at the forefront. They adapt, innovate, and develop new techniques in gardening, find new solutions to landscape problems, and maintain high standards of stewardship of our land. Nature is their inspiration.

The goal of Avant is to use all of the tools, colors, surfaces, textures and emotions in our palette to create artistic, well-layered landscapes that uplift the spirits of those who live with their designed spaces.

The Green Team

The Triple M Green Team is an environmental outreach program that offers several projects each month to participate in, during our season from April thru October. The team is made up of 105.5 Triple M listeners who want to make a difference and help Madison and its surrounding communities become a better, cleaner place to live, work and play.

Last year's Green Team activities included: Earth Day Challenge, Red Bike Painting, Take a Stake in the Lakes, Seed Collection and UW-Arboretum Restoration.

Volunteers from the Triple M Green Team will help serve as the helping hands in producing the 2008 GGW EXPO. Volunteers will assist in taking tickets, supervising recyling efforts, directing guests to specific activity areas, handing out gift bags, and monitoring the EXPO's ecological impact.

Habitat ReStore

Working in partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Dane County, the Habitat ReStore retail operation provides a valuable source of cash flow through the sale of donated building materials.

Habitat ReStore works by accepting donations of new and used building materials such as cabinets, lighting and plumbing fixtures, doors, lumber, flooring, and windows. Some materials will be used to build Habitat houses and the rest will be sold to the public at 50-75% off the retail price to provide the community with a source of low cost building materials. Habitat ReStore also prevents usable building materials from going to a landfill, keeping close to 1000 tons of building materials out of Dane County's landfills annually.

Since its founding in 1987, Habitat for Humanity of Dane County has built and sold homes to nearly 120 working, low income individuals and families.

Habitat ReStore supports the Going Green Wisconsin EXPO by promoting its 8th Annual Habitat for Humanity ReStore Earth Day Celebration on April 18, 2008. The event will be held at 208 Cottage Grove Rd. in Madison, WI from noon to 4 p.m. For more information, visit www.restoredane.org

Madtown Printing

Madtown Printing's mission is to offer our customers 100% eco-friendly printed shirts and apparel, while at the same time, using efforts to minimize our eco-footprint. We use green, soy-based cleaners, feature PVC free water-based ink, we are a part of the M-Powering Madison campaign and we also offer 100% certified organic tees. So when it comes to eco-printing 'think green Go Madtown Printing.'

Shedd Aquarium

Shedd Aquarium's Great Lakes Conservation Awareness Initiative aims to increase public understanding about the Great Lakes and inspire people to take positive actions to help preserve and protect these amazing, but limited, natural resources. Shedd Aquarium acts on its responsibility to educate the public about the threats facing the Great Lakes and to provide the necessary tools to take action through

Serving as a venue for Great Lakes-related events

Shedd Aquarium's vision is a Great Lakes watershed that is healthy, well-understood and internationally cherished.

Shred-It

Shred-it is committed to protecting your privacy and the environment with safe secure document destruction. Serving the Capital region since 1999 with on site document destruction and recycling. In 2008 we recycled 1,907 tons of paper. This resulted in the conservation of 32419 trees, 6674 cubic yards of landfill space, 13349000 gallons of water, and 45768 gallons of gasoline.

Bring a box of your personal documents for shredding and recycling and save $5 off the price of admission at the Going Green Wisconsin EXPO.

Siren Fitness

Siren Fitness is a spa–inspired women’s fitness boutique that offers unique classes and private personal training, in a welcoming atmosphere. One of their core values is to give back to members and the community. Their philosophy is to educate, support, inspire and empower women.

Faith Scarinzi-Dey

Faith Dey is co–owner of Siren Fitness, LLC and has 20 years experience in the health and fitness industry. She is a nationally–recognized fitness specialist, known as a former co–host of the ESPN show, Crunch Fitness, and has worked on four consumer fitness videos. Faith has presented continuing education workshops for fitness professionals across the country and has been featured by Fit, Shape and Ms. Fitness magazines. She also enjoys helping women succeed through customized private training programs.

Alison McWilliams

Alison McWilliams is co–owner of Siren Fitness, LLC and has over 12 years experience in the health and fitness industry. Alison has long been a highly sought–after aerobics instructor in this area, due to her high–energy style and evident passion for improving the health and fitness of her students.

In addition to her commitment to cardiovascular fitness and strength training, Alison is passionate about integrating the use of vitamins, supplements and skin care products into a woman’s effort to achieve overall wellness.

Working Bikes Cooperative

The Working Bikes Cooperative is a not-for-profit tax-exempt 501©3 organization which diverts bicycles from the waste stream in Chicago by repairing them for sale and charity.

Working Bikes is primarily volunteer-driven. Currently it receives no government or foundation money. All its operations are funded through the sale of bicycles at its storefront. Working Bikes uses that money to provide bicycles to charity organizations within Chicagoland and to ship bicycles to the Gulf Coast, Ghana, Tanzania, Angola, Cuba, Guatemala, and Peru.

In the countries to which Working Bikes ships, a bicycle can often mean the difference between work and unemployment. The bicycle is the primary means of vehicular transportation for the majority of the population and is used both for personal transportation and for carrying cargo.

Each year Working Bikes gives away over 5,000 bicycles locally and internationally. It distributes about 500 bicycles and wheelchairs in the Chicago area alone: to City programs, refugees and day camps.

Presenting Media Partners

The Going Green Wisconsin EXPO is produced in partnership with:

WISC-TV3 - a CBS affiliate. WISC-TV3’s expansive viewership and excellent community image make it an integral part in reaching viewers. The total service area reaches 372,990 television households that expands over eleven counties. WISC-TV is the news leader and has more local newscasts than any other television station in the market.

My Madison TV 14 - an affiliate of the new My Network TV. Top programs include News 3 at Nine, Oprah, Dr. Phil, and University of Wisconsin Sports. My Madison TV 14 is distributed via cable and satellite, plus broadcasts 'over-the-air' on the ever-expanding digital platform.

Madison Magazine - With over 107,000 readers and the only magazine with a large paid subscriber following, Madison Magazine has positioned itself as the market leader in editorially driven content for the reader who cares about the greater Madison area. With a long history of providing interesting coverage of local people, area events and home related edit, Madison Magazine continues to grow. Building on the existing strengths of arts, dining, habitat, business and health, the magazine prides itself on providing award winning, service journalism that informs its readers with what to do, where to go and the how to, in managing their daily lives. Winners of numerous Milwaukee Press Club awards for photography, journalism and graphic design, the magazine received special recognition in 2006 with Brennan Nardi winning "Editor of the Year" and Tim Burton and his staff winning "Best overall Graphic Design". In addition, the magazine won its first ever national City Regional Magazine Association award with a silver medal for its multi-media extension on several stories in collaboration with WISC TV-3 and Channel3000.com in 2006.

Channel3000.com - Indisputably one of the trendsetters for media websites in the U.S. today, this award-winning site averages more than 10.3 million page views per month and welcomes over 611,000 unique users monthly. Of all the Madison-area media sites, only Channel3000 has dedicated online journalists constantly updating local information as it happens. The site has won two Radio Television News Directors Association awards in the past three years, the Northwest Broadcast News Association's award for Best Medium Market Website and Madison Magazine readers have named Channel3000 the gold medal for "Best Local Website" two years running.

Media Partners

The Going Green Wisconsin EXPO benefits from a strong media partnership with:

105.5 Triple M - Triple M IS Madison. The music, the listeners, and the air personalities truly reflect the feel of this great city. When you want to talk to wealthy, globally aware and active Madisonians who care about their city...talk to the Triple M Audience.

105.1 Charlie FM - has a musical format you can’t get anywhere else. We Play Everything and NEVER repeat a song during the work week!

94.9 WOLX