Cara Matteson started this week as Linn County’s new sustainability director spearheading environmental initiatives in Iowa’s second-largest county. She succeeds Tamara Marcus, who resigned last year.
Linn County Sustainability is about halfway through a pilot program with the Linn County Emergency Management Agency and four community organizations to create an All-Hazards Emergency Plan Template an effort to help community groups plan for disasters before they strike.
The goal of the Solar Dashboard is to help Linn County residents access available funding to put solar on their homes, small businesses, or nonprofits.
Linn County has been awarded a $1 million Environmental Justice Government to Government grant from the Environmental Protection Agency for its Rental Energy Im