2017 Visioning Communities Selected
Ten Iowa communities have been selected to participate in the Iowa's Living Roadways Community Visioning Program in 2017.
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#StrongIowa: Glennda Bivens' Story
CED specialist Glennda Bivens tells how providing opportunities for minority entrepreneurs can transform communities. Her story shows one way Iowa State University Extension and Outreach is building a strong Iowa.
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Towns selected for 2016 Community Visioning Program
Ten Iowa communities have been selected to participate in the Iowa's Living Roadways Community Visioning Program in 2016. The award-winning program integrates technical landscape planning and design techniques with sustainable community action to assist community leaders and volunteers in making sound and meaningful decisions about the local landscape.
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Three new communities join Ag Urbanism Toolkit to build local food systems
The Agricultural Urbanism Toolkit is a planning process that helps Iowa communities explore their ag-related resources and needs to make fresh, local food products more widely available to residents.
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ISU Extension CED partnering with USDA State Rural Development in national SET program
From colorful quilts in Main Street shops to gilded oil paintings in big city museums, Jennifer Drinkwater sees it all as art. There are no hierarchies, she says, because all art is a creative expression of culture. And as Drinkwater assumes a newly created position at Iowa State University, her expansive definition of art is serving the people of Iowa well.
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ISU professor helps Iowa towns build community, identity and economy through art
From colorful quilts in Main Street shops to gilded oil paintings in big city museums, Jennifer Drinkwater sees it all as art. There are no hierarchies, she says, because all art is a creative expression of culture. And as Drinkwater assumes a newly created position at Iowa State University, her expansive definition of art is serving the people of Iowa well.
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Ag Urbanism Toolkit Helps Establish Local Food Systems
The Iowa State University Community Design Lab (CDL), a partnership between the College of Design and ISU Extension and Outreach, is working with Iowa communities to promote local food systems through a project titled the Agricultural Urbanism Toolkit.
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ISU Extension CED Receives Public Outreach Award from APA-Iowa
I-WALK was developed in 2010 by Christopher Seeger, associate professor and Iowa State University Extension landscape architect, and Bailey Hanson, ISU GIS support specialist and ISUEO and IDPH have since implemented the program in more than 30 Iowa communities.
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ISU LA students create decompression area for employees of correctional institution for women
Find out what ISU landscape architecture students have been doing at the Iowa Correctional Institution for women. Read more here.
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New ISU report shows growing income inequality evidence of shrinking middle class
Job growth in the retail and service sector has not matched the wages of manufacturing and other middle-skill level jobs lost over the past decade in Iowa. The difference has contributed to a growing disparity between low- and high-income households, which is especially profound in specific parts of the state, according to a new report by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach rural sociologist David Peters. Click HERE to read more.
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