Women lead a farming revolution in Iowa
features.csmonitor.com 2/27/2009 — Women own nearly half of Iowa’s farmland. But they find they have a common problem: The men they hire to farm their land often don’t treat it with the tender care they expect – and often won’t listen when they complain about it. Women from three ...

Iowa Ends Gay Couples' Exclusion From Marriage
commondreams.org 4/3/2009 — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 3, 2009 Freedom to Marry The Iowa Supreme Court today handed down a unanimous decision in favor of the freedom to marry, bringing marriage equality to America's heartland. Iowa now joins Massachusetts and Connecticut in ending the exclusion of same-sex couples ...

From Washers to Wind: Obama in Iowa
watthead.blogspot.com 4/23/2009 — This is a guest post by Billy Parish, founder and former director of the Energy Action Coalition and current Ashoka Fellow, originally posted at Grist.org Yesterday, was the 39th anniversary of Earth Day and to mark the occasion, President Obama was in Newton, Iowa to speak about clean energy. ...

The Effect of Natural Gradients on the Net Energy Profits from Corn Ethanol
netenergy.theoildrum.com 1/14/2009 — Scaling biofuels from the level of the laboratory or pilot-plants to commercial production is the Achilles’ Heel of almost all biofuels. One major problem is that biofuels use feedstocks that are invariably less energy dense than their fossil fuel ...

From Washers to Wind: Obama in Iowa
grist.org 4/23/2009 — Yesterday was the 39th anniversary of Earth Day, and to mark the occasion President Obama was in Newton, Iowa, to speak about clean energy. Newton is one of those towns where most of the residents are employed by one major employer, and until October ...

The Associated Press: Iowa plants to offer farmers cash for corn cobs
google.com 7/17/2009 — 1 day ago DES MOINES, Iowa Two new technologies offer the promise that corn growers could turn their cobs into cash. Cobs, the refuse left behind after harvest, are now plowed back into fields. But companies from California and South Dakota plan to ...

Wind Energy in the Heartland
rss.nrdcfeeds.org 4/20/2009 — What U.S. state comes to mind when you hear the words "renewable energy"?  I'm guessing your immediate thought was California and possibly Texas. This Wednesday (a.k.a Earth Day!), as part of his Clean Energy for America campaign, President Obama will be in a town named Newton to ...

Iowa Council Suggests Ways To Cut Emissions 90% By 2050
environmentalleader.com 1/6/2009 — The Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council recently released its final report which suggests two scenarios to cut the state’s GHG emissions by up to 90 percent by 2050, the Associated Press reports (via Yahoo! Finance). In the first scenario, ...

Two Iowa Ethanol Plants Getting Wind Power
americanfuels.info 12/21/2008 — The Iowa Lakes Electric Cooperative (ILEC) is installing wind turbines at two wind farms located near ethanol plants

Iowa Moves Into Second Place, Behind Texas, In US Wind Power Capacity Race
treehugger.com 4/14/2009 — photo: Towle Neu via flickr Texas still holds its lead in installed wind power capacity, with 7,118 megawatts, but according to the latest industry data, Iowa has edged pass California as the United States' number two wind power:...

Paula Crossfield: Will Obama's Food Safety Working Group Address MRSA and the Deeper Issues Facing the Food System? — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 3/15/2009
In his weekly address Saturday, President Obama announced that he had put together a "Food Safety Working Group," whose focus will include fostering communication between federal agencies in order to make sure food safety policies are being ...

It Takes a Village to Stop Razing Appalachia: Power Past Coal Fights Back — AlterNet.org: Environment 3/16/2009
Thanks to Big Coal, we've lost 500 mountains in one of the most diverse forests in America, but the movement to stop it is growing.

Van Jones: Obama's Green Jobs "Handyman" — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 3/16/2009
Since the drafting of Van Jones to the Obama administration, people have wondered what exactly his job will be and what it will mean for the future of green jobs. Jones is a rising star among environmental activists, author of The Green Collar ...

Why the Slow Food Movement Needs to Help Stop America's Slave Labor — AlterNet.org: Environment 3/16/2009
Faced with a fast food system that's bad for people and bad for the planet, we still need to be in solidarity with those who grow our food.

Van Jones: Why I'm Going to Washington — AlterNet.org: Environment 3/16/2009
Jones talks about what his new appointment in the Obama administration means and what he hopes to accomplish working from the inside.