Tour of Lindsay Heights, sustainable infrastructure, bio-swales, renewables, garden and orchards. Experience the best of urban sustainability with the Lindsay Heights EcoTour, a project spearheaded by the City of Milwaukee ECO HOME GR/OWN initiative and Walnut Way Conservation Corp. This exciting tour immerses you in the heart of Lindsay Heights Neighborhood, where you'll delve into topics like solar power, local food production, climate change adaptation, and more. Start your journey at the Walnut Way Center, once a condemned home, now transformed into an epicenter for community revitalization and environmental stewardship. Discover how 14 former vacant lots have bloomed into productive gardens, peach orchards, compost systems, and stormwater management projects. Venture to the Wally Schmidt Redevelopment, a testament to energy efficiency with its green roof and porous pavers. Don't forget to stop by the Innovation and Wellness Commons, boasting a rooftop solar system. For a unique blend of education and exploration, book your tour today!

Join us for a resident-led tour of Lindsay Heights, where you'll get a unique perspective on our neighborhood assets, future activities, and key programs. Explore sustainable infrastructure, bio-swales, renewables, gardens, and orchards through the eyes of our residents. Don't miss this opportunity to get an insider's view of our vibrant community!

Lindsay Heights & Milwaukee residents can now request affordable Wi‑Fi service for single‑family homes and multi‑unit buildings through Walnut Way’s neighborhood network. This project delivers free and low‑cost internet so households can learn, work, and access healthcare from home.​ Affordable Home Wi‑Fi Reliable Wi‑Fi service for eligible single‑family homes using a secure router installed inside the residence. Baseline plans support email, homework, and streaming, with higher‑speed options for remote work and heavier use.​ No long‑term contracts and pricing designed for affordability, including a free baseline option for qualifying households.​ Multi‑Unit & Building Partners Multi‑unit apartment and mixed‑use buildings can join by hosting small rooftop or façade antennas that extend coverage to residents and common areas without major construction.​ Building owners can receive dedicated connectivity for the property and offer tenants affordable in‑unit or common‑area Wi‑Fi, strengthening digital access across the site.​ Easy, Low‑Impact Installation Typical install‑to‑service timeline is about two weeks after a brief site assessment, using non‑penetrating mounts and low‑power connections to existing electrical access.​ The decentralized design makes the network resilient and allows future expansion to more blocks and buildings as demand grows.​ How to Use This Booking Page Complete the short form to tell us if you are a homeowner, tenant, or building owner/manager and whether you are interested in home service, building service, or both.​ Choose a time for a site visit or follow‑up call so staff can review your options, building fit, and the best connection type for your address.

Walnut Way’s Community Wealth Building program now offers a free, self-paced micro-class for small business owners, independent contractors, service workers and contingent workers. Start Contractor & Entrepreneur Basics What you will learn What it means to be a contractor Your business identity and records: IDs, contact information and what to keep How to get registered and insured in Wisconsin, including health insurance Using your Social Security number vs. an EIN, and taxes How to value your time and services Invoices that get you paid Know before you go: what to make clear before any job Proof of work and landing your next job How it works About 2 hours and 20 minutes, in any order you like Start with just your name and email. No account or password. Your progress saves, so you can stop and come back on any device Each section has a short video, a handout, practice, a quiz and one action step 17 free templates, including an invoice, a job agreement and a records checklist Pass the final test to earn a Walnut Way certificate anyone can verify Start the free course: walnutway.org/learn This course is general education, not legal or tax advice. Questions? Email info@walnutway.org.

File a comment with the Public Service Commission. Come to the hearing in Milwaukee on Tuesday, September 1. What the video shows Five big data centers are planned in this state. Two of them are about an hour from Milwaukee, in opposite directions. Port Washington and Mount Pleasant are each asking for about a gigawatt. Our utility wants to add three new gigawatts to the grid for demand that has not arrived yet. Somebody pays for that. Right now that somebody is you. Everything We Energies does, you pay for it. When they advertise, you pay for it. When they donate, you pay for it. When they use lawyers, you pay for it. What is on the table We Energies asked to raise electric rates in 2027 and 2028. By the utility's own numbers, a typical home pays about $13 more a month starting January 1, 2027, and about $9 more on top of that in 2028. That would be the sixth increase since 2020. Milwaukee's Common Council voted to oppose it. Nothing is decided yet. Three commissioners decide it for all of Wisconsin. They have to read what you send. What to ask for Last fiscal year about 190,000 Wisconsin households needed help paying energy bills. Wisconsin still has no program that ties your bill to what you earn. Ohio has one. We do not. A Milwaukee lawmaker proposed capping a household energy bill at 2 percent of income. The state is studying the idea. Say you want it. Three things you can say in your comment: No increase. We cannot carry a sixth one. Cap my bill at a share of my income. Data centers should pay their own costs, not shift them to my bill. Two or three sentences counts. Your own words count more than ours. File a comment Docket 5-UR-112. Comments close Friday, September 18. File your comment on the state record here: Public Service Commission comment form, docket 5-UR-112 If the form gives you trouble, call 414-260-2243 and we will walk you through it. Tuesday, September 1 in Milwaukee Buses load 10:30 a.m. — 1617 W North Avenue Rally 11:30 a.m. — We Energies, 231 W Michigan Street. Tell us you are coming Hearings 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. — Marquette Alumni Memorial Union, Ballrooms B and E, 1442 W Wisconsin Avenue. RSVP for the hearing Cannot get downtown? Join the hearing on Zoom, or call +1 312 626 6799 and enter meeting ID 809 513 2930. You can speak from your kitchen. You can speak at either hearing. You do not need to prepare anything. You can also just show up and be counted. Ride, childcare, or help writing your comment: 414-260-2243. Who is doing this with us We are the Wisconsin Ecojustice Base Builders — neighbors, congregations, and organizations across this state doing this work together. See who we are Walnut Way Conservation Corp, 1617 W North Avenue, Milwaukee. 414-264-2326. Source video is not ours. Notes added by Walnut Way. Become a Wisconsin Ecojustice Base Builder: Base Builder sign-up form

This morning, the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin accepted Walnut Way Conservation Corp as an intervenor in Docket 5-UR-112 — We Energies' 2027–2028 rate case. Officially a party. Officially at the table. (Watch the proceeding.) This builds straight off our record. Walnut Way earned standing in 6630-TE-113 — the data center tariff case — and filed initial and reply briefs that helped the Commission reject the worst of We Energies' cost-shift in April 2026. That fight didn't end. It moved into this case. With Microsoft seated as a party. With $37.5 billion in capital build on the line — what We Energies itself has called the largest five-year plan in company history. With data center load driving nearly all of the projected demand growth. In that case, the Commission drew a clear line: data centers — not households — pay for the generation, capacity, and stranded-asset risk their load creates. This is the most important rate case in a generation for Wisconsin families. And it just got more important. The centerpiece: We Energies' own workforce put hardship on the record. The administrative law judge read this aloud, on the record, this morning. He was reading from the petition to intervene filed by Operating Engineers Local 420 — IUOE. These are We Energies employees. The men and women who actually build, run, and maintain the system the Commission is being asked to expand. Here is what their petition says — verbatim, as the judge read it from the bench: "The substantial interest of the union is that the decision that the Commission makes will have a direct effect on its members' wages, benefits, staffing levels, working conditions, and job security. And then the union also asserted that a majority of its members are customers of the utility." Stop and read it again. We Energies' own workforce just told the Public Service Commission, in writing, that this rate decision will hit them at home — not just on the job site. That the people who keep the lights on for southeastern Wisconsin pay the same residential bill that lands on every other kitchen table. That the affordability question hits them too. The judge then said this is not how unions typically participate in Wisconsin rate cases, and advised the union to remove the customer-representation language from the next filing unless they actually intended to argue rates from that posture. The union acknowledged the feedback. So we sit with the honest question. What does it mean when a sentence about household hardship — written by the workforce of the company asking for the rate increase — gets advised out of a petition? And is there truth to the hardship those words describe? The petition was not casual. Somebody inside that local cared enough to write it down and file it. That sentence reflects something real that members are feeling at home. Whether the union's formal posture in this case ends up speaking to it or not is a question for the local, in its own time, in its own way. We are not here to corner anybody. We are here to ask the question seriously and to leave room for the union to answer it — on its own terms, in its own voice, over the months ahead. Let those workers be heard. Their petition opened a door. Walnut Way will hold that door open. Watch and listen to the exchange. June 27 — the stage where Wisconsin hears the question In 24 days, on Saturday, June 27, 2026, from 10 AM to 12 PM at North Division High School in Milwaukee, Walnut Way is co-hosting the Community Accountability Forum — bringing 2026 Wisconsin governor candidates in front of 600 Milwaukee residents on the questions that decide our future: affordability, health equity, and historic underinvestment. Now we have one more question that didn't exist yesterday: "We Energies' own employees just told the Public Service Commission, on the record, that the company's rate increase will create hardship for their own families. The Commission is being asked to approve a $37.5 billion buildout driven by data center load — including a contract with Microsoft. As governor, what will you do to make sure Wisconsin households don't pay the bill for the data center boom?" That's the question. It connects the courtroom to the kitchen table. It connects the workforce inside the company to the neighborhood outside it. It connects this morning's PSC docket to the ballot box. The Critical Path: Docket Meets Ballot Date Milestone June 3, 2026 Walnut Way accepted as intervenor. Prehearing conference held. ✓ Coming weeks (TBD by PSC) Public comment window opens. Notice of Hearing will post the comment webpage and mailing address. Every Wisconsin family will be able to file directly, in their own name. Walnut Way's job is to make sure our neighbors know how, when, and where. August 10, 2026 Intervenor direct testimony filed (Walnut Way + others). August 11, 2026 Wisconsin gubernatorial primary. The field narrows. The next governor starts becoming real. August 28, 2026 Rebuttal testimony filed. September 11, 2026 Surrebuttal testimony filed. September 14, 2026 Testimony corrections and replacement exhibits filed. September 15, 2026 Party hearing begins (Zoom). September 16–17 reserved as spillover days. September 25, 2026 Initial briefs filed. October 2, 2026 Reply briefs filed. November 3, 2026 Wisconsin general election — governor on the ballot. The decision-maker who will inherit this case is elected. Late 2026 PSC final decision in 5-UR-112. January 2027 New We Energies rates take effect — same month the new governor takes office. Vote with Wisdom" Wisconsin Gubernatorial Forum Hosted by Wisconsin Ecojustice Base Builders (WEBB) June 27th Forum

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