Author Archives: Katharine

Becky Ross op ed 11/22/14

Let’s be a leader on reusable bags Three years ago I seldom thought about single-use plastic bags. I used to only think about them when I had a pile of them so big I knew it was time to recycle. … Continue reading

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Barbara Schlachter’s op ed November 20, 2014

Time to put revenue neutral fee on carbon In the bleak mid-winter, which seems to have hit Iowa rather early on a number of fronts, I have been looking for signs of good news. One of these is the agreement … Continue reading

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Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’

NY Times Sunday Book Review By ROB NIXON NOV. 6, 2014 Photo Naomi Klein Credit Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times Continue reading the main story Share This Page Share Tweet Pin Email Save more “Every inhabitant of this planet must … Continue reading

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September 2014 Film Festival

Sept. 8—YERT, Your Environmental Road Trip:  Called to action by a planet in crisis, three friends hit the road, with hope and humor in search of breakthrough solutions to humanity’s greatest environmental challenges in this award winning documentary.  Becky H will … Continue reading

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Barbara Schlachter LTE in the Gazette, July 22, 2014

Invest in wind and solar, not pipeline I wish to commend The Gazette for its early reporting on a proposed pipeline that would run through 17 Iowa counties in a diagonal line stretching from the Bakken oil fields in North … Continue reading

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Grannies S/Nit in at Johnson County Fair 21 July 21 2014

S’nit In – a knitting sit-in Our S’nit in’s are on the 4th Friday of each month –1 to 3 pm.  Come join us! See latest meeting notes for the location. (In a s’nit & knitting for climite crisis) Grannies … Continue reading

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Cloud computing’ needs real-world energy sources

Barbara Eckstein and Stephen Voyce / Guest Opinion Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 7, 2014 When scholars of technology make statements like, “Our mobile electronic devices and even our desktop computers are extensions of our human bodies,” they get little argument … Continue reading

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Barbara Schlachter op ed in PC May 22, 2014 Climate change already is here and growing worse

“What have future generations done for us?” Justin Gillis from the New York Times quotes a banner hung from a freeway bridge in California. He says that there is an implied second question here: “Should we spend our heard-earned money … Continue reading

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Letter 3/10/2014 to the Press-Citizen

by Becky Hall & Ann Christenson – UI should say ‘no’ to fossil fuels How is a proposed $75 million power plant fueled mostly with natural gas true to the University’s “Vision 2020” goal to achieve 40 percent energy renewability … Continue reading

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Donna Rupp’s letter 3/3/2014 to the Press-Citizen

Stella Clark had some thoughtful comments in her letter to the editor Tuesday and I’d like to add to the discussion. She posited that the 100 Grannies’ focus on eliminating plastic bag waste is too narrow a cause, given the … Continue reading

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