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Category Archives: Sustainability
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
Posted in Sustainability
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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Nutella And No
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Rhonny Dam, the Good Green Witch, connected with Blog for Iowa through Al Gore’s The Climate Reality Project. Hope you enjoy her latest post. Reprinted with permission. For regular updates, follow her blog here.] This really isn’t OK. But … Continue reading
Posted in Sustainability
Tagged corporate food, sustainability, The Climate Reality Project
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Eat Your Iowa Vegetables
There is little agreement about how to apply the principles of sustainable agriculture to the dominant chemical-based farming system and equally robust hegemony of consumer society. It is not clear that these ideas about farming and consumerism even go together. … Continue reading
Posted in Food Insecurity, Local Food, Sustainability
Tagged 2014 Sustainable Food, Consumerism, Food Production, Food Security, Local food, Sustainable Agriculture
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