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Our Mission: To empower IA's communities to make more environmental, conservation-minded decisions and improvements by engaging our AmeriCorps members in direct service work, environmental education, professional development opportunities, and volunteer engagement. Operated through the University of Northern IA's Center for Energy and Environmental Education, Green IA AmeriCorps is a state-wide community service program. Our organization was founded in 2009 to address conservation and sustainable usage of energy resources in several IA communities as they struggled to rebuild from the devastating floods of 2008. Since the start of the flood recovery, Green IA AmeriCorps has been an active community partner. Each focus area of our program will provide AmeriCorps members with the unique opportunity to enhance their professional development goals, cultivate community-wide relationships, and work toward making IA a more sustainable, eco-nomic state.