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This story is part of a series that examines the progress, impact and cost of the “action steps” and “big moves” outlined in the Ames Climate Action Plan. With its recent purchase of five additional battery electric buses, CyRide has continued to steadily strengthen its foothold in sustainable transportation. Many of CyRide’s latest projects and...
In the last of three meetings of the week, the Ames City Council concluded its budget meetings with presentations from city staff about their departments’ budgets, including transit, community development and general government/internal services Thursday. The council will hear from the public Tuesday and vote on the proposed budget. Transit Ames Transit Director Barbara Neal...
The Ames Climate Action Plan presented ideas to the Ames City Council that may help the city reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
The city launched the year-long process of developing emissions targets and a climate action plan in August.
Listen here! ISU's Sustainability Committee described by: Dr. Bill Gutowski, Professor of Geological and Atmospheric Science, Chair of the University Sustainability Committee and a member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007) and student members of the University Sustainability Committee Jennifer Seth, undergraduate student in Environmental Science and Aline Milach Teixeira, undergraduate student in Chemical Engineering. Listen Here! A discussion of carbon sequestration by Dr. Robert Brown, Director of the ISU ...