The City's 6th annual Climate Fest is coming your way with six days of events from friday through Thursday 2025! The annual event is a celebration of the many ways our community takes action to address climate change with a series of free, family-friendly events.
Schedule of Events:
Solar Art Show and Tour
This year, 300 newly installed ground-mounted solar panels at the Iowa City Municipal Airport came online, powering the terminal, runway lights, and ambulatory hangar with clean energy. In the summer months, the power production even exceeded the airport's needs, flowing onto the grid to help supply nearby structures with the additional energy. That's worth celebrating!
On Monday, from 4-6:30 p.m., visit the airport to see an art exhibit featuring pieces by local artists made with and inspired by solar energy and curated by Public Space One. Then try your own hand at creating solar art, get an up close look at the airport array on one of two tours (at 4:30 and 6 p.m.) led by the industry experts who helped build the array, and learn more about the solar capacity of your own home using a handy online portal. Local solar installers, as well as Climate Action staff, will be on hand to answer all your questions.
