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Our mission: To educate, advocate, and agitate for renewable energy, pure water, clean air and a healthy environment for future generations.

100Grannies – about us and what we do

Upcoming Events:

  • April 17th – 6:30 – 8:00 at Iowa City Public Library – Grannies are co-sponsoring with League of Women Voters, Connie Mutel’s book talk
  • April 20th – 9:00 – 12:00 – Ace Hardware North Dodge Street.  Home Energy workshops
  • April 23rd –  4:30 to 7:30 – our annual spring party at the Unitarian Universalist Society – more information to follow.
  • April 25th – 4:30-6:00  – Field to Family at their warehouse: 1051 US-6 Iowa City, IA. (make t-shirt bags?)
  • May 2nd  – ICPL – Grannies are co-sponsoring with Sierra Club a candidate forum for the 5 Democratic candidates for Johnson County Supervisor (the primary is in June)
  • July 20th – July 24th, Johnson County Fair

Check out our Posts for news items about what we are up to. The most recent Posts are shown in the column to the right

Our Podcast Series archives presentations, interviews, panel discussions and other audio content on climate change and the environmental crisis in Iowa

Our YouTube channel archives Lecture Series presentations

Calendar

100Grannies are engaged in numerous important activities to educate, advocate, and agitate for renewable energy, pure water, clean air and a healthy environment for future generations. Some of these are:

           

  • Partnering with the Iowa Carbon Pipeline Resistance Coalition and landowners to fight against eminent domain by private industry for a dangerous CO2 carbon pipeline across Iowa.  Link here to learn more. Link to this YouTube for more about the landowners’ perspective.

          

  • Advocating against CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) by meeting with legislators to support a moratorium in Iowa and other activities. Click here to learn more about Iowa Alliance for Responsible Agriculture and why there should be a moratorium on CAFO expansion.

      

Love Food /Fight Waste – Link to an Iowa City program to fight food waste with new topics and tips each month at icgov.org/lovefood.

Granny’s Gems – Flyers telling about ways to reduce, reuse, recycle.

Founding Granny, Barbara Schlachter, Posthumous Award

Racism is Killing the Planet – Black Lives Matter – We Stand Together

Please use the menu on the black bar at the top to view many news items under Post, learn about activities of each Team, or review past events in the Archive. Additionally, click on any of our resource links below:

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100Grannies meets on the fourth Tuesday of the month (except Nov. and Dec.) from 3:00 to 5:00 in the downstairs of the Coralville Public Library.

We welcome new members. Learn more by going to the Membership link in the menu on the black bar at the top.