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Cara Matteson started this week as Linn County’s new sustainability director spearheading environmental initiatives in Iowa’s second-largest county. She succeeds Tamara Marcus, who resigned last year.

Linn County Sustainability is about halfway through a pilot program with the Linn County Emergency Management Agency and four community organizations to create an All-Hazards Emergency Plan Template — an effort to help community groups plan for disasters before they strike.

Staffers will guide interested residents through funding opportunities and a county dashboard during a Tuesday webinar

The goal of the Solar Dashboard is to help Linn County residents access available funding to put solar on their homes, small businesses, or nonprofits.

Linn County has been awarded a $1 million Environmental Justice Government to Government grant from the Environmental Protection Agency for its Rental Energy Im

Tamara Marcus is resigning as Linn County’s first sustainability director to launch a new sustainability and equity consulting service serving Corridor local governments, businesses and nonprofits. The majority-Democrat Board of Supervisors is unlikely to restructure the sustainability department.

The location is Linn County’s second resiliency hub, where residents in need can go during times of disaster, to access critical resources such as food, electricity and information.

Locals in Cedar Rapids got to see Linn County's latest resiliency hub project on Sunday, where county officials held a ribbon cutting at the Wellington Heights

The Linn County Food Systems Council will host a food symposium at 8 a.m. on Oct. 27, 2023, at the ISU Extension and Outreach Office on1770 Boyson Rd. in Hiawa

Last week linn county and the linn county ema announced the release of the all-hazards emergency plan template for community organizations.The plan came togethe