Energy

(51MB MP3, 55 min) about his work in moving toward a cradle-to-cradle economy. Recorded at the Land Institute's 2006 annual conference.

(11MB MP3) Iowa City, Iowa, December 2006

(6 MB MP3) at the 2006 Iowa Environmental Councils annual conference, David Osterberg was responsible for the initial legislation that required Iowa utilities to buy wind power. David is head of the Iowa Policy Project (http://www.iowapolicyproject.org), a social policy think tank that has studied how renewable energy and local foods could creates jobs for Iowa.

(46MB PowerPoint) Presentation on community scale renewable energy given by Lonnie Gamble at Ecofair 2007, IRENEW 2007, and Tallgrass Bionners (Grinnell, Iowa). How a small city like Fairfield, Iowa could use renewable energy and efficiency projects to create opportunity and wealth.

(43MB MP3) Author and environmental educator David Orr was recorded at the 2006 Land Institute conference in Salina, Kansas. Big Green Summer founder Lonnie Gamble was a student of David Orr, and David's ideas about education were very influential in the development of Big Green Summer. David is head of the environmental science department at Oberlin College and author of Earth in Mind, the Nature of Design, and many other influential books and articles. Watch a Bioneers keynote talk by Dr.

Navarre is home to 593,000 people, with 200,000 in the capital city of Pamploma. It's land area is the size of a square 70 miles on each side. (About the distance from Fairfield to Iowa City). As of 2004, Navarre had created over 3600 jobs in the renewable energy sector. In Iowa, we could look to the lead of places like Navarre and power our cities with renewables and create wealth in our region.

(45KB PDF) by Amory Lovins on the effects of efficient building practices on the overall Economy availability of capital in the US.

(2.6MB MP3) by student Michael Cook, an homage to the sun with a nod to the Beatles.