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Kathy Kuntz

Kathy has almost 30 years of experience helping businesses and residents adopt sustainable practices.  Prior to joining Dane County, Kathy led Cool Choices where she worked with local governments and private businesses on sustainability efforts for about ten years.  Before that she led Focus on Energy, Wisconsin's statewide energy efficiency and renewable energy program.

Kathy has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota, a Master’s from UW-Madison, and a reputation for getting results.

Bob Kihslinger

Bob is the owner/admin of 10001ways.com an environmental newsfeed website.  He is also an administrator at The Connection, a Dane County high school climate change website.  He worked for 25 years in the HVAC industry, was Training Director at Auer Steel and a consultant on their corporate sustainability plan.

He holds a Master's degree in Adult Education from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.

Kathy Kuntz

Ankur Desai is Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and the Reid Bryson Professor of Climate, People, and Environment with the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research, both at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

His lab studies how organisms and abiotic features in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems influence and are influenced by climate and weather and how those effects change as you scale from plot to landscape to globe. We specialize in making long-term, ecosystem-atmosphere observations of emission or uptake of carbon, energy, and water, in particular using eddy covariance flux towers. 

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