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Along the Mississippi: Driving Miss Doris Exploring Dubuque by boat	Sarah van Schagen	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill
What floats our boat? Um, we're not quite sure, but that didn't stop us from taking the helm like two river rats making our way downstream. Thanks to the (very Dubuque) hospitality of Trish McDonald and her "chick boat" Doris Day, we were fortunate enough to spend the day out on the Mississippi River.Trish took us on the grand tour as we sped down to the locks and dam, meandered through Ice Harbor, and puttered past ginormous barges waiting to fill up wit ...
Topics: Iowa, Mississippi River, placemaking (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: Quote of the day Granted, it's early yet	Katharine Wroth	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Just met with Laura Carstens, planning services manager for Dubuque. The money quote: 'For years, we turned our back on the river. Now we're making it our front door.'Later today, Sarah and I will get out on the river for the first time. The tourist riverboat stopped running this weekend because the weather turned, but yesterday one of our sources called a friend with a boat. The friend agreed to pick us up this morning and take us for a ride. And that right there te ...
Topics: Mississippi River, Iowa, placemaking, quotables (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: We're not in Seattle anymore ... or Kansas, for that matter	Katharine Wroth	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Here's what the sign says on the back of the bathroom door in our hotel: Hotel Laws of IowaFixing, Limiting, and Determining the Liability of Keepers of Hotels, Inns, Eating-Houses, and Steamboat Owners to Inmates Thereof.Sorry, was that ... steamboat owners? Holy crap.
Topics: green living, Iowa, Mississippi River, placemaking (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: America's river Exploring Dubuque's riverwalk, tourist-style	Sarah van Schagen	22 Oct 2007	Gristmill
While Katharine spent the day getting free lunch and talking to city planners, I spent my day exploring what, exactly, all those city planners have spent all their time planning. Namely, the America's River project I mentioned earlier today. I toured the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium with Teri Goodmann, the director of national advancement for the museum and, as it happens, a fairly knowledgeable Mississippi River fish enthusiast. (Did you know ...
Topics: Iowa, Mississippi River, placemaking (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: SDAT thing you do A meeting of the minds in the Masterpiece on the Mississippi	Katharine Wroth	22 Oct 2007	Gristmill
There's no free lunch -- unless you happen to be a Grist reporter crashing a sustainability conference in Dubuque. I showed up, hungry, for a 12 p.m. presentation by City Manager Mike Van Milligen that was kicking off a three-day Sustainable Design Assessment Team visit. I was rewarded not only with more inspiring examples of this city's initiatives, but with a sandwich.Let me back up a little. Dubuque -- which, as Sarah said, is turning out to be a more progressive ...
Topics: placemaking, Iowa, Mississippi River (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: Buol market A morning meeting with the mayor of Dubuque	Sarah van Schagen	22 Oct 2007	Gristmill
I wish I could tell you I wrote this from atop a log raft while floating down the Mighty Mississippi, but sadly the wifi access out there ain't so mighty. Instead, I'm sitting at a table inside the Grand Harbor Resort and Conference Center complex, which is part of the $188 million riverfront development project here in Dubuque, Iowa, our first of three stops during our week traveling The Great River. The development project -- and the National Mississippi River ...
Topics: placemaking, Iowa, Mississippi River (all these topics)

And Meals to Go Before We Sleep As food series ends, the story is just beginning	Tom Philpott	19 Oct 2007	Grist Feature
During my trip to the Midwest this summer, I saw many unsettling sights: vast monocropped landscapes lashed regularly with chemicals, insidious low-slung buildings that imprison thousands of animals and concentrate their waste. Yet I returned oddly invigorated, buzzing about Iowa's promise as a sustainable-ag mecca. Amid the cornfields and the CAFOs, I saw thriving homestead farms whe ...
Topics: agriculture, food, industrial ag, Iowa, local food, sustainable ag (all these topics)

In the Belly of the Beast The savory challenges of being a sustainable chef in Big Ag country	Kurt Michael Friese	11 Oct 2007	Grist Feature
Fifteen years ago, I left a great job teaching at a prestigious northeast culinary school to move back to Iowa and be an executive chef at a Holiday Inn. It was difficult to find people, in Vermont or Iowa, who did not think I was certifiably insane. Those who thought they knew Iowa claimed, "There's no there there!" And those who did not asked, "Iowa? I ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, food, green living, Iowa, recipes, sustainable ag (all these topics)

It Can Be Done Images of a sustainable-food revolution		10 Oct 2007	Grist Feature
Imagine a place where residents pull together to create a thriving store and restaurant serving fresh, local food. Imagine a place where the money appears, the dreams become real, the produce and pastured meat taste like home. Imagine a place where officials support these dreams with policies that fund organic farmers and encourage the purchase of local food. You can stop imagining. It's happening in Woodbury County, Iowa. It ...
Topics: agriculture, food, Iowa, local food, sustainable ag (all these topics)

A Tale of Two Counties In the farm belt, a look at the extremes of agricultural production	Tom Philpott	10 Oct 2007	Grist Feature
When I arrived in Iowa on a reporting trip this summer, I expected to experience it with city eyes: frankly, as a rural backwater. I've lived on a farm in the Appalachians of North Carolina since 2004, but the ten years before that, I lived in Mexico City and New York City. I don't know from vast fields and wide horizons. Instead, barreling down the highway between appointme ...
Topics: agriculture, farmers markets, food, grassroots activism, industrial ag, Iowa, local food, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Your Food Doesn't Come From the Store A journey into the heart of industrial agriculture	Tom Philpott	09 Oct 2007	Grist Feature
� Americans live in a post-agricultural age. Today, fewer than two of every 100 U.S. citizens owe their living primarily to the land. A century ago, two of every five did. Yet even though very few of us contribute to food production, we all still eat -- and food comes from somewhere. But where? In a sense, the answer is: Iowa, buckle of the farm belt, heart of the heartland ...
Topics: agriculture, food, green living, Iowa, placemaking (all these topics)

Guest movie review: King Corn Children of the corn armed with movie cameras	Tom Philpott	13 Sep 2007	Gristmill
This is a guest post by Nicole de Beaufort, a long-time advocate for local, sustainable, and accessible food systems. She is principal of Fourth Sector Consulting in North Oaks, Minn., which employs strategic communications to work with food system advocates and funders to mobilize the growing food movement. The film King Corn is set to open in theaters nationwide starting Oct. 12 in New York. ----- In 1977, Stephen King published a short story in Penthouse about some ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, food, Iowa, movies (all these topics)

Forget the Farm Bill For now, local politics is the way to effect ag-policy change	Tom Philpott	02 Aug 2007	Victual Reality
Over the past few years, grassroots support has swelled for new federal farm policies -- ones that promote healthy, sustainably grown food, not the interests of a few agribusiness firms. Udder madness. Photo: iStockphoto The target of much of this organizing has been the 2007 farm bill. If past farm bill debates have been the concern of a small cadre of lobbyists and activists, this one ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Congress, farmers markets, food, industrial ag, Iowa, local food, organic food, politics, sustainable ag, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Factory farm map How many are there in your state?	David Roberts	01 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Via Modeshift, check out the Factory Farm Map, which shows the location of factory farms in the U.S. by state and by county. Here in Washington we have a relatively low eight. Sorry to all you folks in Iowa, where there are 3,876. That's a lot!
Topics: agriculture, industrial ag, Iowa, Washington (all these topics)

Eating local, and well, in Sioux City, Iowa An oasis amid slaughterhouses and monoculture	Tom Philpott	31 Jul 2007	Gristmill
When you make the three-hour drive from Des Moines to Sioux City (pop. 100,000), the heart of Woodbury County, nothing you see raises your hopes for a good dinner. All along the way, lush farmland lies smothered by what seems like one big blanket, alternately colored light and dark green: corn and soy. At a certain point, the monotony becomes dangerously hypnotic -- and nauseating, if you know all of that bounty is destined to feed confined animals and fuel factori ...
Topics: agriculture, food, industrial ag, Iowa, local food (all these topics)

My own private Iowa Philpott on the ground in corn country	Tom Philpott	26 Jul 2007	Gristmill
In my very first article for Grist a year and a half ago, I declared with confidence that 'If you're going to talk about poverty, food, and the environment in the United States, you might as well start in the Corn Belt.'Trouble is, I had never actually been in corn country, at least not in sentient memory.All of that changed Tuesday, when I landed in Des Moines on assignment for Grist. Here are some of my first impressions.* Iowa, at least the part I've seen so far, is ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, food, Iowa (all these topics)

The Merchant of Menace How 'merchant coal' is changing the face of America	Carrie La Seur	24 Aug 2006	Main Dish
How "merchant coal" is changing the face of America By Carrie La Seur 24 Aug 2006 � From his rolling green soybean fields above a slow river in eastern Iowa, Don Shatzer looks out over the farm where he was raised, across land he and his neighbors have farmed all their lives. Below him are the garden beds where his wife Linda grows organic vegetables to safeguard the family's health, and the farm pond and beach he built for the grandkids. A few miles to the west ...
Topics: coal, energy, Iowa, Texas (all these topics)

Iowa grows local In the heartland of industrial agriculture, a county goes local and organic.	Tom Philpott	24 Feb 2006	Gristmill
Nestled in the heartland of globally oriented commodity-food production, Woodbury County in Iowa has made a bold move away from industrial agriculture. Last summer, the Kellogg Foundation's Food and Society (FAS) website reports, 'the County passed an 'Organics Conversion Policy,' offering up to $50,000 annually in property tax rebates for those who convert from conventional to organic farming practices.' And then in January 2006, FAS continues, the county ... .. ...
Topics: agriculture, food, Iowa, local food, organic food (all these topics)

Seedy Business A sustainable-ag champion gets plowed under at Iowa State		03 Nov 2005	Daily Grist

Topics: food and agriculture, Iowa (all these topics)

Seedy business: A sustainable-ag champion gets plowed under at Iowa State Is agribusiness behind the ouster of one of its biggest critics?	Tom Philpott	02 Nov 2005	Gristmill
Plunked down in the land of huge, chemical-addicted grain farms and the nation's greatest concentration of hog feedlots, Iowa State University's Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture has always had a tough row to hoe. Imagine trying to operate an Anti-Cronyism League from Bush's West Wing, and you get an idea of what the Leopold Center is up against. Industrial agriculture runs the show in Iowa, sustained by regular infusions of federal cash and its government-sa ...
Topics: agriculture, education, Iowa, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Hung Out to Dry Post-Katrina floodwaters are dirty, but so are other U.S. waterways	Osha Gray Davidson	11 Oct 2005	Main Dish
Last month, "toxic gumbo" entered the American lexicon with the speed and force of the floodwaters it describes. A LexisNexis search of major U.S. publications doesn't return a single hit for the phrase in the year before Hurricane Katrina. But in the 30 days after the storm's landfall, 66 articles contained the phrase. Measure twice, cup once. "I want to be very c ...
Topics: Iowa, Louisiana, toxics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Do Good Get the Presidential Candidates to Talk Green		16 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Do Good Get the Presidential Candidates to Talk Green With the Iowa caucuses next week, the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination will really get rollicking. Remind the candidates to come out swinging for the environment. More than 80 percent of Americans agree that the environment should be a national priority, but you wouldn't know it from listening to candidates' stump speeches. Sig ...
Topics: elections, green living, Iowa, political groups, politics (all these topics)

Return of the Native Plants		03 Jul 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Iowa, placemaking, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Crop Rotation		14 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Crop Rotation Iowa may soon play host to the world's largest wind farm, after Gov. Tom Vilsack (D) on Friday signed a measure that removes regulatory hurdles to clear the way for the project. MidAmerican Energy Co. expects to start construction in September of a 200-turbine facility in northern Iowa that would pump out 310 megawatts of electricity. Vilsack touts Iowa's prospects for becoming "a national lea ...
Topics: energy, Iowa, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Hawkeyes on the Prize		28 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Hawkeyes on the Prize Iowa will soon be home to the world's largest land-based wind farm if MidAmerican Energy Company has its way. The power company plans to erect between 180 and 200 turbines capable of generating 310 megawatts of electricity and powering some 85,000 homes. If approved by the Iowa Public Utilities Board and state lawmakers, the $323 million project would be completed in 2006 and wou ...
Topics: business, energy, Iowa, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

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