document.write('<div id="pan_container"><div id="pan_header"><div id="pan_stationAsksImage"></div><div class="pan_pad"><div id="nocodeBridge"><div id=bLink class=bridge><a href="http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wium/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1521877/Local.Specials/Fairfield.Working.For.Sustainability" id=bLink class=bridge>Read the whole story</a></div><div id=bHeadline class=bridge>Fairfield Working For Sustainability</div><div id=bTeaser class=bridge>There are big dreams for the small southeast Iowa town of Fairfield.  It wants to become a sustainable community.  It even has a Go-Green Planning Commission.  The town\'s goals are in line with President Obama\'s vision to create a sustainable economy.</div></div><div id="pan_tq"><div id="pan_content_title">How should your community, "Go Green?"</div><div id="pan_content_question">At Tri States Public Radio, we\'re wondering: what would you like see your town do to become more ”green?”  What actions have you seen happening around you already, and where does your community need to go from here?</div><a id="pan_replyImage" href=\'http://action.publicbroadcasting.net/wium/posts/list/2124518.page\' style="display:block;"></a></div></div></div><div id="pan_messages"><div id="pan_commentsTitle"></div><div class="pan_messageContainer"><div  class="pan_messageStats"><div class="pan_pad"><span>Along the Diagonal</span> Added: 06/26/2009 6:12:48 PM</div></div><div class="pan_messageBody"><div class="pan_pad">I\'ve been talking with folks local to Macomb and McDonough County about the potential for Macomb to be developed as a model sustainable city.  My "Model Sustainable Cities" website (<a href="http://modelsustainablecities.weebly.com" target="_blank" >http://mod...weebly.com</a>) contains much of my thinking on the topic. <br/>  <br/> But also interesting is that there is a geographical diagonal that could run from the wind corridor resources of the Dakotas across NW, Central, and SE Iowa and into West Central Illinois.  This diagonal could be developed as a renewable energy corridor.  It is already partially delineated by the southernmost diagonal of the "Green Power Express" network of high voltage transmission lines.  Also along part of this diagonal is one proposed location for the International Renewable Hydrogen Transmission Demonstration Facility.  This facility is itself described as a corridor of synergistic renewable energy technologies. <br/>  <br/> Hydrogen as an energy carrier and renewable ammonia as a companion energy carrier for "hydricity" and also as a renewable fertilizer hold potential for development along this corridor.  Communities along this diagonal could be nodes of development and test markets for these new energy and fertilizer technologies.  Smart grid and microgrid energy management systems could also synergize with these energy carriers/fuels in that the smart microgrids could be customized to also manage the hydrogen/ammonia/hydricity commodity. <br/>  <br/> So, this larger corridor might allow both Fairfield and Macomb, for instance, to be nodes of sustainable development and nodes of market research for renewable energy especially suited to rural and agricultural economies.</div></div></div></div></div>');