Ag and Environment

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, was established in the late 1990s by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) as a benchmark for sustainable building projects. Yesterday, the Green Building Certification Institute, or …

Indigo Dawn LLC’s Green and Main initiative pilot project has been selected to participate in the international Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES).

Green and Main will join more than 150 other projects from 34 states, Canada, …

Iowa’s wind power supply chain comprises 80 Iowa companies and more than 2,300 employees in manufacturing, and the state ranks second in the nation in total wind energy generation, according to a study released today …

Vice President Joe Biden is expected to announce a series of initiatives today aimed at helping middle-income Americans make their homes more energy efficient and boost job growth among home retrofitters, according to Reuters.

The …

Plug-in electric cars such as Nissan Motor Co.’s Leaf and General Motor Co.’s Volt, could make up 9 percent of U.S. auto sales by 2020 and 22 percent in 2030, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said …

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) announced it is researching a way to cut electronic devices’ power consumption by 90 percent and reduce so-called vampire energy, or power used while the gadgets are turned off. IBM’s …

Iowa recently received a high energy efficiency ranking in a national review.

The state’s high ranking in 2010 can be credited to actions it began taking more than 20 years ago.

“However you slice and …