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4-9-07
LEOPOLD CENTER'S 'BALANCED, YET BOLD' YEAR FEATURED IN 2006 REPORT
AMES, Iowa -- New and thriving research programs, major leadership changes, and
significant progress by research initiatives marked the past fiscal year at
the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, and are summarized in the
Center's new annual report.
Balancing Change and Sustainability showcases the Center's
long-term commitment to organic agriculture research conducted by Iowa State
University, and the Center's continuing support of on-farm investigations
carried out in cooperation with Practical Farmers of Iowa. The Center also
collaborated on a critical ISU agroecology project and the state’s budding grape
and wine program.
Fred Kirschenmann offers a look at his year as the Center’s first Distinguished
Fellow --working closely with the Garst family to put west central Iowa’s
Whiterock Conservancy on firm footing, providing guidance and assistance to the
Agriculture of the Middle project, the Pew Commission on livestock agriculture,
Silos and Smokestacks, and the nation’s other university-based sustainable
agriculture centers.
The publication also reports on the exciting work done by the Center’s research
initiatives, both their competitive grant research efforts and special projects
in policy, ecology, and marketing and food systems. Among them are active
working groups in food systems and value chains, ecology efforts with grassland
agriculture and Green Lands Blue Waters, and policy projects collecting farmer
opinions on the next Farm Bill. All three initiatives also have supported
extensive education and outreach efforts on the ISU campus and around Iowa.
The Center’s FY2006 annual report is printed on Mohawk Via paper stock, which
was manufactured entirely with nonpolluting wind-generated electricity and
contains 30 percent recycled post-consumer fiber. In addition, the paper used in
the report is certified by Green Seal, the nation's leading independent
certification and verification program for renewable energy products.
Environmental savings achieved by printing the report on Mohawk Via are
calculated on the back cover, including trees not cut down, air emissions
eliminated, energy not consumed, waterborne waste not generated,
water/wastewater flow saved, and solid waste not generated.
Copies of the 40-page, illustrated report are available from the Center office,
(515) 294-3711, or on-line at www.leopold.iastate.edu/pubs/annual/files/AR_05-06.pdf.
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