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Three Climate Action Grant recipients report local impacts from lighting, composting and refrigeration projects
Summary
Iowa City Climate Action Grant recipients — a downtown food business, Oak Knoll senior living, and Our Redeemer church — presented updates showing early results: streetscape plantings and a refrigeration unit for a small business, a compost diversion program at Oak Knoll, and a LED retrofit that reduced electricity use at Our Redeemer.
Plated Table representative Kim, Oak Knoll project lead Bruce, and Pastor Brent Hartwig of Our Redeemer reported results from projects funded by the City of Iowa City's Climate Action Grant program at the commission meeting.
Kim said the grant paid for plantings that changed the appearance of a commercial frontage, and that the city installed standard bike racks so the grantee did not have to contract for them. The grantee also received a refrigeration unit that Kim said reduced volatility for the small business’s supply chain and enabled more local sourcing. "The experience of working with the city staff involved in this…
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