The City of Madison began an online competition between businesses and nonprofits Monday to increase environmental sustainability initiatives, in an effort to win a monetary prize.
Cool Choices, a Madison-based nonprofit, will coordinate the efforts of the Green Madison initiative, which includes calculating carbon and energy savings for the more than 40 different partners. These partners include UW Health, American Family Insurance and the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce.
"It is exciting that Green Madison has mobilized so many residents and area businesses to come together to reduce energy usage in Madison,” Madison Mayor Paul Soglin said in a Monday statement. “The City is taking innovative approaches to being more green and cutting costs for government, local businesses and residents.”
Madison is one of 50 cities competing for a $5 million prize from the Georgetown University Energy Prize, which awards creative energy usage strategies over a two-year period.
