News and Events

  • Loans to Back Energy Savers

    Wednesday, October 15, 2008
    ISU employees can turn their energy-saving ideas for the office into reality, with help from the new interest-free Live Green Loan Fund.

  • Clean and Green

    Friday, September 26, 2008
    Clean is getting more green at Iowa State as custodial staff replace harsh chemicals and solvents with less volatile products.

  • Silently, scentlessly green . . . yet clean

    Friday, September 26, 2008
    "The early green products just didn't work . . . Now, some of them are even better than the ones that were more volatile." Dick Reckseen

  • ISU Gets HIgh Marks on Sustainability

    Thursday, July 31, 2008
    The National Wildlife Federation's recently released national report on card on campus sustainability includes Iowa State in its list of schools with exemplary levels of sustainability activities.

  • Training Architects to Think Green

    Thursday, July 24, 2008
    Ulrike Passe injects a healthy dose of European-bred, green design into Iowa State's architecture curriculum.

  • Sun Run

    Wednesday, July 23, 2008
    The Iowa State student-built solar car finished a 2,400-mile race in 8th place.

  • Iowa State Students Prep $400,000 Solar Car for Cross-Continental Race

    Friday, June 27, 2008
    Sol Invictus, Iowa State University's latest student-designed and student-built solar race car, will compete in the North American Solar Challenge July 13-22. The challenge will take 24 university and college teams 2,400 miles from Plano, Texas, to Calgar

  • Farm to ISU Program Grows into Second Year

    Thursday, June 12, 2008
    Local foods are increasingly showing up in ISU dining centers.

  • Riders in the Storm

    Thursday, June 12, 2008
    Find out why some ISU employees bike to work, rain, shine, or snow. Inside Iowa State, June 12, 2008.

  • Green Efforts at ISU

    Tuesday, June 10, 2008
    President Gregory Geoffroy has announced these new programs as part of the Live Green! initiative.

  • 'Live Green!' Conservation, Sustainability Efforts are Moving Forward

    Tuesday, June 10, 2008
    A new Office of Sustainability Programs, a loan fund to support green project, and a goal to achieve LEED gold certification on campus projects are among latest efforts.

  • Designed to Win

    Thursday, May 22, 2008
    ISU's Solar Decathlon team reveals its Interlock House design.

  • Invest Year-End Funds to Save Money, Energy

    Friday, May 2, 2008
    Compact fluorescent bulbs will save energy in campus buildings.

  • Certifiably Green

    Friday, April 18, 2008
    Morrill restoration earns ISU its first "green building" recognition.

  • Regents Approve Science Complex, Site Prep for Chemistry Building

    Friday, February 15, 2008
    Regents approve plans for first component of a biorenewables complex.

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