Sustainability

Your Sustainability Tips: A Thankful Mother Earth

November 7, 2017

We have much to be thankful for in Eastern Iowa, and the support of YOU, the members of Indian Creek Nature Center, is something we are thankful for every day. We’d like to think that Mother…

The Future is Bright!

October 25, 2017

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Eco-minded, News, Sustainability

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Indian Creek Nature Center’s mission has always been to create a more sustainable future. When we set out to build our new Amazing Space building, we doubled down on this commitment by taking on the…

Your Sustainability Tips: Halloween

October 4, 2017

Indian Creek Nature Center

Eco-minded, Sustainability

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As we welcome fall, we also welcome the opportunity to reduce our trash consumption and dependence on fossil fuels. In one of my favorite books, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, she states “The average food item…

Your Sustainability Tips: Composting

September 5, 2017

Indian Creek Nature Center

Eco-minded, Sustainability

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One of the many perks of living in Cedar Rapids is regular curbside yard waste pickup. From a sustainability standpoint, this service opens up the door to reduce your personal carbon footprint and support our…

Spring Prescribed Burn Dates

March 21, 2017

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News, Restoration, Sustainability

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Indian Creek Nature Center conducts regular (annual or bi-annual) prescribed burns of its prairie, oak hickory savanna, and woodlands as part of its land management strategy. The organization follows a burn management plan and notifies the…

Why Amazing Space?

November 1, 2016

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Amazing Space, News, Sustainability

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Did you know that the land where Amazing Space now sits, and the surrounding prairie, was farmland until 1996? That’s the year Indian Creek Nature Center purchased the land from the Bena family before restoring…

Amazing Space update: What’s in a Ceiling?

March 7, 2016

Indian Creek Nature Center

Amazing Space, Sustainability

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March 7, 2016 Building progress is moving forward on schedule! Crews are staining the large, exposed wooden beams running through the building, or trusses. Where this is completed, they are installing tectum panels. Tectum is…

Record attendance in beekeeping class mirrors rising interest in pollinators

January 29, 2016

Indian Creek Nature Center

Eco-minded, News, Sustainability

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January 30, 2016 Enrollment in Indian Creek Nature Center’s annual beekeeping class tripled its typical enrollment – there are nearly 75 participants registered for 2016, versus 25 in previous years. “The increased interest in the…

Rain Water Runoff

June 23, 2015

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Sustainability

Rain Garden Rain gardens collect and temporarily hold water from your roof or driveway that would otherwise runoff across your lawn and be channeled into fast-moving torrents of water. In our case, it collects rainwater from…

Photovoltaics

June 23, 2015

deNovo

Sustainability

A leader in energy efficiency, the Indian Creek Nature Center began using photovoltaics in 1993. The first system stored solar produced electricity in batteries. This type of system allows a homeowner or business to draw…

Sustainability

Your Sustainability Tips: A Thankful Mother Earth

The Future is Bright!

Your Sustainability Tips: Halloween

Your Sustainability Tips: Composting

Spring Prescribed Burn Dates

Why Amazing Space?

Amazing Space update: What’s in a Ceiling?

Record attendance in beekeeping class mirrors rising interest in pollinators

Rain Water Runoff

Photovoltaics

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