Kelli Spencer

September 23, 2009

There’s a new committee making plans in Dubuque and their main concern is sustainability. The committee is called Dubuque Squared and they say their main goal is to “make sustainability sustainable.”

They are still a rather new committee and are in the early stages of development but seem to have some very strong ideas. They hope to get their plans and ideas from the people of Dubuque, local businesses, schools and non-profit organizations. They also hope to create an inventory of practices already in place by the people of Dubuque.  By doing this they hope to also achieve the goals of reducing the community’s carbon footprint and getting national recognition for Dubuque’s efforts.

Their website is still in the construction stages. However, Justin Thilgen, a member of the committee, tells us that it will hopefully serve as a way to share the wonderful things that people are already doing and promote the things that people can do to help over time.