In Iowa, grassroots energy districts aim to spur local clean energy conversations

The concept is modeled on soil and water conservation districts that spread across the country in the 1930s.

A decade ago, Craig Mosher was one of a half-dozen people trying to rethink energy in their small hometown of Decorah in northeast Iowa.

“The general concern was climate change, but the specific concern was energy, and what we could do to reduce energy use and to shift to renewables,” Mosher recalled about the group’s early meetings at Luther College, a Lutheran school with a heavy environmental emphasis.


Posted: October 21, 2019


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