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A 15-minute documentary culled from 25 hours of footage and interviews with hoteliers, refugees and activists in Sri Lanka — called “2006 Sri Lanka: Business, Relief, and Water after the Tsunami,” was a project of University of Iowa professor Dr. Paul Greenough, UI cinema major Swarnavel Eswaranpillai and Harish Naraindas of Jawaharlal Nehru University. The [...]

What does he want? Phytoremediation! When does he want it? Now!

For Lou Licht, cleaning up polluted land using plants is a no-brainer. He’s patented a process using poplar trees for phytoremediation. On Tuesday, the North Liberty entrepreneur was a keynote speaker at a “Bioeconomy” conference called “Keep it Small, Keep it All: Cultivating the Bioeconomy [...]

The Iowa Conservation Education Coalition welcomed former ICEC chair Richard Leopold to Camp Io-Dis-E-Ca near Solon, Iowa, for the ICEC winter conference this weekend. Leopold is the director of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

Before his keynote address at the conference on Friday night, he talked with the Iowa Independent about some state environmental issues, [...]

About 25 people met on Sunday in Iowa City to discuss and develop environmental policies for their precinct caucuses. They drafted “planks” (also called platforms) for energy policy, air quality, urban growth boundaries and in-fill development.  Some of the participants identified themselves as being part of a presidential campaign, others were concerned about public health [...]