5/8/08– Iowa Independent article: "Cultivating Iowa's Bioeconomy" What does he want? Phytoremediation! When does he want it? Now! For Lou Licht, cleaning up polluted land using plants is a no-brainer. He's patented a process using poplar trees for phytoremediation. On Tuesday, the North Liberty entrepreneur was a keynote speaker at a "Bioeconomy" conference called "Keep it Small, Keep it All: Cultivating the Bioeconomy at the Local Scale." 4/10/08– Bioeconomy 101: Cultivating Iowa's 'Photosynthetic Space' Lou Licht patented a process using poplar trees for phytoremediation. On Tuesday, the North Liberty entrepreneur was a keynote speaker at a "Bioeconomy" conference called "Keep it Small Keep it All." 4/10/08– Iowa Independent article: "Cultivating Iowa's Bioeconomy" What does he want? Phytoremediation! When does he want it? Now! For Lou Licht, cleaning up polluted land using plants is a no-brainer. He's patented a process using poplar trees for phytoremediation. On Tuesday, the North Liberty entrepreneur was a keynote speaker at a "Bioeconomy" conference called "Keep it Small, Keep it All: Cultivating the Bioeconomy at the Local Scale."