Corn, Climate and Conservation: Iowa's Clean Energy Forum

Dr. Jennifer Burnham, associate professor of geography at Augustana, will be one of the speakers at Corn, Climate and Conservation: Iowa's Clean Energy Forum.

The event is sponsored by Mighty Earth Quad-Cities, a nonprofit that works to protect the environment, threatened landscapes, and oceans.

The panel  will discuss agriculture's place in a clean energy future as well as some of the ways Iowa already leads the nation in moving towards renewables. The group will discuss sustainable farm practices, balancing
agricultural practices with preservation of wild lands, the role of food-based biofuels, and more.