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Tag Archives: sustainability
Food Without SNAP
SNAP cuts: how will they impact eastern Iowa? How can our community respond? Please join Fairness for Iowa for a Town Hall event that discusses how the $1 billion of cuts to SNAP in Iowa will impact our communities in … Continue reading
Posted in Food Insecurity
Tagged art, community, Food, Food Insecurity, food insecurity in Iowa, Iowa Food Insecurity, sustainability, travel
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Republicans And The Damage Done
When I visited the Iowa legislature, one of the people I sought was Rep. Chuck Isenhart from Dubuque. Almost every bill regarding conservation, climate change, renewable energy, and water quality involved him in some way. We were sad to see … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged Environment, Solar Energy, sustainability, tax credits, wind energy
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Today’s Nuclear Times
I remember watching one of the Soviet Sputnik satellites flying over the back yard of our Iowa home. Besides launching a “space race” between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Sputnik heightened tensions between the two … Continue reading
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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CCS Push Back And Climate Change
When we took the land after the 1832 Black Hawk Purchase, it was decimated to make neatly cut rectangles of farmland. People are used to that now. Today Iowa farmland is used mostly as a production landscape for hogs, cattle, … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged carbon capture and sequestration, CCS, climate change, corn, environment, ethanol, sustainability
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Toward Sustainable Pandemic Recovery
The climate crisis continues in the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic with its economic downturn threatens years of progress addressing climate change and sustainability. It’s now or never for the environment. Governments are expected to spend trillions of dollars in stimulus … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economy
Tagged Act On Climate, climate change, climate crisis, economy, sustainability
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What’s Wrong With Our Food System?
There is a strong argument nothing is wrong with our food system. There is a strong argument everything is wrong with our food system. To talk about a “food system” at all presumes a lot that may or may not … Continue reading
Nuclear Abolition in Trump World
Elimination of nuclear weapons remains a priority for many of us who followed disarmament progress through the years. Our work hasn’t ended. What should be our priorities in Trump World? To a large extent, society answered that question in the … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Affairs, Nuclear Abolition, Nuclear Disarmament
Tagged Foreign Affairs, nuclear abolition, nuclear disarmament, sustainability
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Act On Climate
Every few years, interest in climate change spikes, according to internet search frequency reported by Google Trends. When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released their special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5º C above pre-industrial levels … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Action, Climate Change, Environment
Tagged climate change, environment, global warming, IPCC, sustainability
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A Difficult And Strange Season Of Weather
By Carmen Black (Editor’s Note: Iowa Farmers deal with an existential reality that is the weather. Regardless of increasingly polarized discussions about climate change, weather affects real people in tangible ways. Carmen recently wrote this piece to members of her … Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Local Food
Tagged Community Supported Agriculture, farming, Iowa weather, Local food, sustainability
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