Photo: City of Shenandoah. This week's radio segment highlights some innovative research going on in the tiny city of Shenandoah - attempts to use algae for fuel. But the experiment is just one of many of the town's cutting-edge green efforts. The city has also installed more energy-efficient lighting in its downtown, and it received…
Cornelia “Connie” Mutel is a senior science writer and archivist in Iowa’s Institute of Hydraulic Research. She has completed eight books, many of which focus on Iowa’s ecology. Connie and her husband, UI professor Robert Mutel, live on 18 acres of oak-hickory woodland near Iowa City. Within the next week they will perform a controlled…
Listen to this week's radio clip about Fairfield's green efforts. What makes for healthy living? To find out, head over to Fairfield, Iowa where the economy and environment are thriving. This is the Iowa Environmental Focus on sustainable communities. In 2009, MSN.com named Fairfield Mayor Ed Malloy one of the 15 greenest mayors in the…
Listen to this week's radio segment on the green efforts of Charles City, a Northeast Iowa town of about 8,000. Read more about the project here, or check out the report below. To clean up water and guard against flooding, Charles City went big – really big. This is the Iowa Environmental Focus on sustainable…
Kasey Dresser| August 12, 2019 This weeks segment looks at the Environmental Protection Agency's new recommendation for keeping lakes clean. Transcript: The Environmental Protection Agency is recommending a new water quality standard for microcystin - a bacteria known to create blue-green algae that inhabits many bodies of water in Iowa. This is the Iowa Environmental Focus.…