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Category Archives: Environment
Reading Naomi Klein
Unlike the climate crisis story spoon fed to us in decreasing numbers of corporate media stories, in social media memes, and in fleeting conversations at community gatherings, in This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate, author Naomi Klein said there … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Action, Environment
Tagged ActOnClimate, Climate Action, environment, extractivism, Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything
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Senator Cruz And The Sierra Club
The exchange between U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and Sierra Club president Aaron Mair during an Oct. 6 Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing was a brief flash in the news cycle. Was it also a debate about climate change? The subject was … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election Campaign, Climate Change, Environment
Tagged Aaron Mair, climate change, environment, Iowa Starting Line, Miriam Kashia, Sarah Beckman, Sierra Club, Ted Cruz
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RFK, Jr. Calls Koch Brothers “Deadly Parasites” On Democracy
Ever wonder why you rarely see Robert Kennedy, Jr. on the TV? Possibly because he is the most knowledgeable and articulate spokesman for the environment there is, and he is unafraid to tell the truth about corporate greed. Prepare to … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Action, Environment, Ring of Fire Radio, water
Tagged citiens united, corporate greed, environment, koch brothers
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Gibson Resolution On Climate Change
(Editor’s Note: To some, eleven Republicans co-sponsoring the Gibson resolution to act on climate are merely stating obvious facts about the science of global warming, its impact on climate, and the need to take immediate action. Friends Committee on Legislation … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Action, Climate Change, Environment
Tagged climate change, climate change deniers, environment
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Denial and Denali
Environmentalists are having trouble wrapping their head around a president who visited Alaska above the Arctic Circle on Wednesday to speak on the need to mitigate the causes of climate change, while at the same time on Aug. 17 approved … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged Alaska, energy policy, environment, president obama, ShellNo
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Iowa Breaks Beach Warnings Record
(Editor’s Note: The Iowa Environmental Council released this statement Aug. 14 on record levels of microcystin produced by certain types of algae blooms. They rightly associate the problem with the nutrient-rich soup lakes and waterways have become as a result … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Iowa Environmental Council
Tagged blue-green algae, Iowa Environmental Council, microcystin, Nutrient runoff
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Oak Leaf Tatters And Herbicides
What to make of a study of the impact of herbicide drift from farming operations on oak trees? In a peer reviewed 2004 study at the University of Illinois, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences in Urbana, Ill., scientists … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged chloroacetamide, environment, Forestry, Herbicides, industrial agriculture
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Iowa And The Clean Power Plan
(Editor’s Note: The Iowa Environmental Council released the following Aug. 3. The coming debate will be about whether or not, and how, Iowa complies with the new rules. The press release outlines what they are). Clean Power Plan presents opportunity … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Iowa Environmental Council
Tagged Clean Power Plan, environment, EPA, Iowa Environmental Council
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Clean Power Plan Adopted Today
Today the Obama administration is expected to formally adopt the Clean Power Plan with targeted reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants of 32 percent by 2030 compared to 2005 levels. If readers care about mitigating the causes … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged Clean Power Plan, CO2 emissions, environment, global warming, Road to Paris
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Iowa Farmers Offer Cover Crop Webinar
Practical Farmers of Iowa, Cover Crop Solutions and the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Present Webinar on the Basics of Cover Crops Thursday, July 30, at 1 p.m. Mark your calendar for a webinar to be held on July 30 that … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Farming, Sustainability
Tagged Cover Crop Solutions, cover crops, farming, Iowa Farm Bureau, Practical Farmers of Iowa, sustainability
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