Communities

October 30, 2023

Slipstream and partners receive Buildings Upgrade Prize to design and launch Cream City Climate Challenge in Milwaukee

Funded by the prize from the U.S. Department of Energy, the new Cream City Climate Challenge aims to inspire weatherization and electrification and improve health and safety outcomes for the City of Milwaukee's historically disadvantaged communities (DACs).
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August 28, 2023

Meet the principal of Wisconsin's first net zero energy school

The principal of Forest Edge Elementary shares her experiences leading a school where every hallway is a lesson in sustainability.
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July 28, 2023

Rural Michigan cooperatives set the standard for carbon emissions reporting

A set of rural Michigan electric cooperative partners track and report their programs' impact toward lower carbon emissions, making progress toward Michigan's climate and clean energy goals and meeting their members' needs.
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July 27, 2023

Program spotlight: How one rural Michigan co-op invests in their community by serving non-profit businesses

PIE&G's successful Non-Profit Business Bonus proves the power of programs that understand a community and its needs.
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May 30, 2023

How I learned to listen while researching ways for utilities to support Indigenous food sovereignty

We started a research project with good intentions. History spoke more loudly. The work was a reminder that communities we want to serve know what they need and that we can support best when we listen first.
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December 12, 2022

Slipstream, IREC to develop energy resilience plan in Castañer, Puerto Rico

The firms will coordinate to assist the local utility in developing tools to restore power faster after extreme weather events.
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September 27, 2022

Lessons on Listening: What utilities can learn from grassroots organizers

Slipstream launched a utility funded pilot program in 2019 to explore how a trusted community-based organization (CBO) could increase energy efficiency program participation. We started with the best of intentions. But every engineer knows intentions don't matter when the building falls. Through hard, honest reflection we realized where our intentions and our actions didn't align.
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September 1, 2022

Community-driven weatherization and decarbonization

Through support of the Pembroke-Hopkins Energy Efficiency Project, we hope to understand what it really takes to support rural community members in the clean energy transformation.
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July 28, 2022

Microgrids can be a building block to more resilient communities

Microgrids can help cities achieve their clean energy goals while maintaining essential services in a crisis—but only if a city fully understands the needs of its residents.
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July 26, 2022

Healthy, affordable housing for all: It's the right thing to do

The Principles of Environmental Justice (EJ) and the Jemez Principles of Democratic Organizing can guide us to build affordable housing solutions with impacted communities.
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