Monday, 04 Mar 2013
Paper Making
Learn to form sheets of handmade paper using pulp prepared from recycled materials.
Tuesday, 05 Mar 2013
Private Lands and Public Priorities: EPA, Iowa Agriculture and the Quest for Land Health
Karl Brooks is the Regional Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency's Region 7. He supervises EPA operations in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and nine tribal nations.
Thursday, 07 Mar 2013
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
Climatologist Michael E. Mann, author of "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines," is a member of the Penn State University faculty, holding joint positions in the Departments of Meteorology and Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute. National Affairs Series.
Tuesday, 19 Mar 2013
Iowa Local Food Conference: Road Map for Resilience
National speakers sharing their experience and expertise. Local hard-working heroes who are changing the face of the local food scene. Information that will help you begin a new project, elevate a project to the next step, locate a new partner, learn about funding, or develop measurable outcomes to share with others about the benefits of the work you are doing.
Wednesday, 20 Mar 2013
Iowa Local Food Conference: Road Map for Resilience
National speakers sharing their experience and expertise. Local hard-working heroes who are changing the face of the local food scene. Information that will help you begin a new project, elevate a project to the next step, locate a new partner, learn about funding, or develop measurable outcomes to share with others about the benefits of the work you are doing.
Thursday, 28 Mar 2013
Demons and Butterflies: Weather Predictability and Predictions
Atmospheric scientist Richard Anthes is a former president of the American Meteorological Society and a leading spokesman on weather forecasting. His expertise includes hurricanes and other tropical cyclones. Sigma Xi Lecture Series
Friday, 29 Mar 2013
Gasland: Documentary & Discussion
The documentary Gasland explores the drilling technology known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a journey to document the real dangers that accompany the largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history. 9th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness & the Environmental Imagination: The Future of Water
9th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness & the Environmental Imagination
Elizabeth Bradfield's poetry collection Approaching Ice portrays the history of polar exploration. The book conveys the wonders and dangers, physical and mental, encountered while endeavoring to reach this inhospitable region. Part of the 9th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness & the Environmental Imagination: The Future of Water.
Exploration, Empire and Environmental Justice
Poets Elizabeth Bradfield and Sherwin Bitsui will discuss the political implications as well as the ethics and responsibilities of exploration and resource management in a postcolonial world. Part of the 9th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness & the Environmental Imagination: The Future of Water.
Flood Song
Sherwin Bitsui is the author of two books of poetry, Shapeshift and Flood Song, a recipient of a 2010 PEN Open Book Award and an American Book Award. He is originally from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. The 9th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness & the Environmental Imagination: The Future of Water
Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of our Wild Ocean
Julia Whitty is the author of Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean. Her thirty-year career as a documentary filmmaker and diver has given her sustained access to the scientists dedicated to the study of an astonishing range of ocean life. Part of the 9th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness & the Environmental Imagination: The Future of Water.