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Category Archives: Sustainability
Nuclear Energy Revisited
On July 1, Interstate Power and Light Company, the parent company of Alliant Energy, filed an application to add 1,000 megawatts of wind energy “to help boost Iowa’s electric grid and further diversify its energy portfolio,” Olivia Cohen wrote in … Continue reading
Posted in Sustainability
Tagged Duane Arnold nuclear plant, Linn County, nuclear energy, nuclear power, sustainabiilty
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Enough Groundwater?
Will the Silurian Aquifer have enough water to support the population that draws from it? Answers to that question are a bit sketchy due to infrequent research into groundwater projections. A 2011 study published by the Iowa Department of Natural … Continue reading
Posted in Sustainability
Tagged #iowawater, #waterquality, environment, Groundwater, sustainability
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Innovations In The Climate Crisis – CCS
I viewed the S&P Global Market Intelligence discussion between reporter Taylor Kuykendall and Former U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz on Nov. 8. The thirty minute video is worth viewing to hear Moniz on major technologies and technological developments that will … Continue reading
Posted in Sustainability
Tagged ActOnClimate, Bold Iowa, carbon capture and sequestration, CCS, climate change, climate crisis, Ed Fallon, environment, Ernest Moniz, Navigator CO2 Ventures, net zero, Summit Carbon Solutions
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August Is No Recess When Working Poor
School is out for Iowans who work yet remain on the margins of society. There is no recess from the constant demand to secure basic needs of food, shelter and clothing. The add-on expenses of transportation, health care, interest on … Continue reading
Posted in Progressive Community, progressive values, Sustainability, working poor
Tagged Progressive Community, sustainability, working poor
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Opioids: A Conjured Crisis
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack scolded the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine about opioid abuse on Friday. The institution is not doing enough to train its soon-to-be health professionals on an opioid abuse epidemic that claims thousands of … Continue reading
Posted in Sustainability
Tagged Addiction, economic sustainability, Methland, Opiod Abuse, sustainability, Tom Vilsack
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Earth Day 2016
My participation in the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 evolved in a convergence of social vectors. Among them was this Apollo 8 photograph of Earth above a lunar landscape by astronaut William Anders. After viewing the photograph I … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election Campaign, Environment, Progressive Community, Sustainability
Tagged environment, sustainabiilty
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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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Taking Care Of The 100 Percent
The story we would like to be able to tell is of a world that “works for 100 percent of humanity.” We’re not there. In fact, L. Hunter Lovins points out, “Humanity stands at the edge of a crumbling cliff.” … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, economic sustainability, Hunter Lovins, sustainability
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Slaves Produce Seafood For U.S. Market
While Iowans engaged in the NCAA Basketball Tournament another story was being written by Associated Press reporters Robin McDowell, Margie Mason and Martha Mendoza about food not far from televisions tuned into the games. Following a year-long investigation, AP broke … Continue reading
Posted in Labor, Progressive Community, progressive values, Sustainability
Tagged Consumerism, March Madness, NCAA Basketball, progressive values, Slavery
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Finding A New World? Harder Than Some Think!
Tip of the hat to http://www.dailykos/comics As some of you may have read here Thursday Iowa is in the process of “studying” allowing the Bakken Oil to build a pipeline across Iowa. Minnesota is also looking at a pipeline from … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Action, Climate Change, Environment, fracking, Humor, Sustainability, water, wind power
Tagged gulf oil spill, leaving earth, rivers, Solar Power
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