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Barbara Schlachter Memorial Lectures 2022

The 2022 Barbara Schlachter Memorial Lecture Series is a partnership between 100 Grannies for a Livable Future and The Center. We invite you to meet the many dedicated people who work every day to address environmental activities within our community … Continue reading

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2021 Barbara Schlachter Memorial March Lectures

100 Grannies Barbara Schlachter Memorial March Lecture Series Register online: http://apm.activecommunities.com/iowacityseniorcenter/Activity_Search/16101 or call the senior center:  319-356-5220 ======================================================== March 8: Climate Change and the Paris  Agreement – Jerry Schnoor; March 15: Facts behind factory farms – Miriam Kashia, Sandy Alper, … Continue reading

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March, 2020, Lecture Series

Barbara Schlachter Memorial Lecture Series at Iowa City Senior Center on Linn Street Fee: none. No registration.  Membership Not Required Mondays, 3/9 – 3/30  6:30 – 7:30 PM in room 202  Event Organizers: 100Grannies 3/9: The Green New Deal Explained  … Continue reading

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March, 2020, Lecture Series

Barbara Schlachter Memorial Lecture Series Fee: none. No registration. Membership Not Required Mondays, 3/9 – 3/30 6:30 – 7:30 PM in room 202 Event Organizers: 100Grannies 3/9: the green New deal Explained Presented by Matt Ohloff, an organizer for Iowa … Continue reading

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Barbara Schlachter’s op ed Nov 24, 2015

Upcoming UN Climate Summit may, with luck, bring lasting global changes Veterans Day in Europe is often called Armistice Day or Remembrance Day. It is specifically the remembering of the end of the Great War. In many communities Laurence Binyon’s … Continue reading

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Barbara Schlachter’s op ed May 21, 2015

Climate change and cancer share a few surprising similarities Earth Day and Mother’s Day have come and gone. We can forget about our Mother the Earth for almost a year, if we choose. This year’s observances have been extremely poignant … Continue reading

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Barbara Schlachter’s op ed March 27, 2015

Using the ‘precautionary principle’ George Schultz, who was secretary of state from 1982 to 1989, had a piece in The Washington Post a few weeks ago titled “A Reagan approach to climate change.” What I remember about President Ronald Reagan … 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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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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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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