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Category Archives: Environment
Food Hoarding and Iowa's Future
Food Hoarding and Iowa's Future by Paul Deaton [Editor's Note: This is the third article in a Blog for Iowa series about food and food pricing in Iowa, centered around a comparison shopping trip to buy ingredients for a bowl … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Farming, Foreign Affairs, Main Page, Nuclear Disarmament, Organic Foods & Farming, Peace, Progressive Community
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An Iowan on Biodiversity and Seed Banks
An Iowan on Biodiversity and Seed Banks by Paul Deaton Ari LeVaux asserted on AlterNet last week, “How Seed Banks, Vaults and Exchanges are Saving Our Food from Disaster.” It is hard to argue with preserving seeds to maintain crop … Continue reading
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Muscatine Iowa and a Triple Bottom Line
Muscatine Iowa and a Triple Bottom Line by Paul Deaton Grain Processing Corporation may have already received return on its proposed $75 million investment in a new grain dryer in Muscatine when Mayor Richard O'Brien said the company's plans should … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Jobs, Labor, Local Events, Main Page, Progressive Community, Sustainability
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Why Did Tom Vilsack Ignore This Warning?
Why Did Tom Vilsack Ignore This Warning? Fooddemocracynow.org Last week we released a video interview with Dr. Don Huber, a senior plant pathologist who wrote to Secretary Vilsack on January 17th of his grave concerns about the discovery of a … Continue reading
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Public Health and the 25th Anniversary of Chernobyl
Public Health and the 25th Anniversary of Chernobyl Physicians for Social Responsibility Cite Flawed Evacuation Zones & Nuclear Power Health Risks on Chernobyl Anniversary Washington, DC – April 26, 2011 – Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) today cited gross inadequacies … Continue reading
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Will the Iowa Legislature Go Nuclear?
Will the Iowa Legislature Go Nuclear? by Paul DeatonThe answer to this question about House File 561/Senate File 390 is maybe. House Majority Leader Linda Upmeyer (R-12) indicated there is “strong bipartisan support” for House File 561 during a recent … Continue reading
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Earth Day and Corporate Reputations in Iowa
Earth Day and Corporate Reputations in Iowa by Paul DeatonWord coming from K Street in Washington, D.C. is that all this talk about the budget, federal deficit and the debt ceiling has been bad for business. Without an omnibus spending … Continue reading
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No Fracking Way!
No Fracking Way! by Molly ReganUpdate: Fracking Blowout Causes Massive Spill in Pennsylania Fracking is a chemical pressure method of extracting natural gas from rock deep underground. Fracking is done by gas and oil companies in over 40 states in the … Continue reading
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Iowa's Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Problem
Iowa's Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Problem by Paul Deaton A topic related to nuclear power has been inadequately covered during Iowa's debate over HF 561/SF 390 and new nuclear reactors. It is the issue of what to do with one … Continue reading
Posted in Calls to Action, Energy, Environment, Iowa Legislature, Main Page
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Cornucopia Institute Challenging Approval of GE Alfalfa
Cornucopia Institute Challenging Approval of GE Alfalfa [Editor's Note: This article is reprinted from the April 2011 Cornucopia Institute Newsletter] On January 27, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the complete deregulation of Monsanto's controversial genetically engineered (GE) Roundup Ready Alfalfa. … Continue reading
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