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Announcements and Action Activities:

  • Worried about water usage for the proposed CO2 pipeline?  Follow this link to see an outstanding presentation by Jessica Wiskus on the danger of the CO2 pipeline for Iowa’s aquifers.
  • Action item – Write to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) regarding the Summit CO2 pipeline and the extreme amount of Iowa water that they will use. For more info and an address link here. For helpful guidance on writing for climate justice link here.
  • Action item – Send letters to HyVee store managers asking them to post signs encouraging customers to bring their own reusable bags. For addresses and more info link here. For helpful guidance on writing for climate justice link here.
  • Beyond Plastics is a global movement to end plastic pollution, especially single use plastic and 100Grannies is an affiliate. For much more info link here and for a recent article in The Guardian on the plastic crisis link here.

Upcoming Events:

  • Saturday, February 22nd – 9:30 am. League of Woman Voters‘ Legislative Forum on the Environment. Location changed from the Senior Center to the Coralville City Hall at 1512 7th Street.  The public is invited to join League members to hear from our local legislators who represent us and to ask questions of them while they are in the active legislative session.
  • Barbara Schlachter & Ann Christenson Memorial Lecture Series 2025:
    • March 5 – Clean Water in Iowa.  Dr. David Cwiertny, an Environmental Engineer, who will join by zoom, trained at Johns Hopkins University and University of California, Berkeley.  He is the Director of the Center for Health Effect of Environmental Contamination at U of I which supports research focused on health outcomes of environmental toxins. He has a vast knowledge of water, wastewater treatment and reuse.
    • March 12 – The Impact of Litter on Climate, Environment, and Health. Kristin Shevis from Beyond Plastics will connect by Zoom from New York. Kristin is a NY State constituent passionate about reducing plastic pollution. NYC has made progress since 2021 when the state Legislature banned plastic straws and plastic bags. She is fondly known as “the Trash Talker” amongst her friends and family.  She has spent over 30 years working in sales in the tech industry for startups and large companies.
    • March 19 “The Only Way to Save Our Planet” Glen Merzer is a playwright, screenwriter, podcast host, and author. He has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books with a vegan message, including his book, “Food is Climate: A Response to Al Gore, Bill Gates, Paul Hawken, & The Conventional Narrative on Climate Change,” which argues that the only way to reverse climate change is to eliminate animal agriculture and to protect the oceans from industrial fishing. Dr. Michael Klaper called Food is Climate, “the most important book of the 21st Century.”
    •  March 26 “Climate Change, Wildfires, and Hurricanes – Where are we heading?” Dr. Jerald Schnoor, is Professor in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Occupational and Environmental Health, and Co-Director of the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER) at the University of Iowa. Dr. Schnoor’s research interests include phytoremediation, water quality modeling, groundwater, risk assessments, sustainable development, and the impact of carbon emissions on global change.
  • Saturday, March 29th, 9:00 to 3:00, “Called to Climate Action” conference at Grinnell College.

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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

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.

    Worried about the water usage demand of the CO2 pipeline? Click here to learn more and what you can do.

          

  • 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.

      

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

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

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 4:30 to 5:30 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.