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Our Energy Future/Forward on Climate Rally
What would Marty McFly say about the world we live in today? In Back to the Future Part II (1989), the protagonist travels to 2015 to stop his son from getting involved with a rotten employer. Included in this depiction … Continue reading
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Al Gore Talks About Climate Change on “Daily Show”
Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States and “poster boy for sounding the alarm of global warming” according to Jon Stewart, appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Wednesday, January 30 and discussed many things, among them … Continue reading
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Iowa City Summer of Solutions reps attend Grand Aspirations Gathering
Sharing this blog post from Tom Frakes of Iowa City Summer of Solutions, a great organization that has done so much for the Iowa City community. Tom shares his experiences at the Grand Aspirations 2012 August Gathering in Hartford, Conn. … Continue reading
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Water Management in Rural India
Before leaving the University of Iowa, I decided to end my undergrad career with a final course in India. This blog entry recounts my journey with full detail about my experiences in India, a country of contrasts. Around 3:30 a.m. … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Activism, Environmental, Lifestyle and Health, Study abroad
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Daily Iowan guest opinion: Beyond Coal: Missing a bigger picture?
Ferman Milster, associate director, utilities and energy management in UI Facilities Management writes about how the UI is “working to convert from coal to biorenewable energy produced and procured locally” in this guest opinion in the Oct. 27 Daily Iowan: The Sierra … Continue reading
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Tagged biomass, biorenewable fuel, coal
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Iowa City Summer of Solutions
Guest blogger Eleanor Marshall with Iowa City Summer of Solutions: It doesn’t really seem like ten students working in rented office space in the University of Iowa’s Seamans Center can stand up to the world’s problems: mountain top removal, deforestation, … Continue reading
Power Shift 2011 lunch and learn
Thank you to all who attended the Power Shift lunch and learn! Just before Earth Day, 36 University of Iowa students and one student from West High converged with 10,000 other students from across the country at Power Shift 2011 … Continue reading
Mosaic Foundations – a real food conference
I was standing on a million little pieces. (I promise this has nothing to do with outrage from Oprah’s book club and swear I didn’t make this up.) The million little pieces were fragments of cement and gravel, remnants of … Continue reading
The Student Garden: Life after (a lot of) Snow
Have you ever wondered what happens to a garden during the winter? Sure, it is buried beneath snow for a good five, six months (at least, in Iowa it is), but what do the gardeners do to prepare for the … Continue reading
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Tagged student garden, sustainability, UIEC, University of Iowa, Volunteer
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A student’s take on the 2020 Sustainability Targets
Possibly plagued by negative-campaign-ad fatigue, lately I feel that we hear so much about what we are failing to do and not enough about the progress we are making. As such, I think it is important to recognize, and even … Continue reading