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Interview: Zero-Energy Homes and Green Building
Green building expert David Johnston will be in Grinnell on Thursday to talk about residential contractors and how to go green. He is the co-author of “Green from the Ground Up: A Builder’s Guide to Sustainable, Healthy, and Energy-Efficient Construction.”
Kao Kalia Yang and Her Hmong Family Memoir
Born in a Thailand refugee camp in 1980, Kao Kalia Yang is one of almost 190,000 Hmong people living in the U.S.
The Minnesota author was in Iowa City on Monday to read from her new book, “The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir.”
Bankrupt in the Richest Nation, Farmers Rampage in Plymouth County
“What was going on was mortgage closings just the same as going on today …”
Seventy-five years ago, corn was fetching less than 10 cents a bushel and pork was at three cents a pound. A migrant class of American workers was being created. These were the desperate times of the 1930s known as the Great [...]
For Over Fifty Years Think-Tank Wages Peace from Muscatine
What if you could do one-stop shopping for all your global peace and security policy analysis needs?
Nuclear proliferation and disarmament; United Nations strategy and planning; Middle East and Asian security; emergent powers; U.S. security; all of it. Ready for download and available from one policy research think-tank that is nonpartisan and stresses a multilateral approach [...]
For Over 50 Years Think-Tank Wages Peace from Muscatine
What if you could do one-stop shopping for all your global peace and security policy analysis needs?
Nuclear proliferation and disarmament; United Nations strategy and planning; Middle East and Asian security; emergent powers; U.S. security; all of it. Ready for download and available from one policy research think-tank that is nonpartisan and stresses a multilateral approach [...]
Videos: A New Spin on Old Bikes
Unless you are one of the hearty and fearless year-round bicyclists, now is the time to clean up your ten-speed, balloon-tire cruiser, mountain bike, or other two-wheeled people-powered vehicle and hit the trail and/or pavement.
No bike to refurbish? Have no fear!
Community bike programs have recently sprouted in several cities, including an ambitious Des Moines Bike [...]
COMMENTARY: Sen. Grassley, Hunger Is No ‘Joke’
Until they dry out, Iowa cornfields are just so much moist dirt. At harvest time they will yield a certain amount of food, but about 20 percent of U.S. corn is used to make ethanol.
The biofuel boom, along with drought and other factors, has created a worldwide food problem.
Several countries have recently seen bloodshed, unrest [...]
Drinking Water After a Tsunami in Sri Lanka
A 15-minute documentary culled from 25 hours of footage and interviews with hoteliers, refugees and activists in Sri Lanka — called “2006 Sri Lanka: Business, Relief, and Water after the Tsunami,” was a project of University of Iowa professor Dr. Paul Greenough, UI cinema major Swarnavel Eswaranpillai and Harish Naraindas of Jawaharlal Nehru University. The [...]
Video: Cultivating Iowa’s Bioeconomy
What does he want? Phytoremediation! When does he want it? Now!
For Lou Licht, cleaning up polluted land using plants is a no-brainer. He’s patented a process using poplar trees for phytoremediation. On Tuesday, the North Liberty entrepreneur was a keynote speaker at a “Bioeconomy” conference called “Keep it Small, Keep it All: Cultivating the Bioeconomy [...]
Sister of Social Service on Iraqi Refugees and ‘Revitalizing Citizenship’
Sister Simone Campbell, who will visit Iowa on Tuesday, met with Iraqi refugees earlier this year with a delegation of women religious. For 10 days in January, on a visit sponsored by Catholic Relief Services, she heard stories from families in Syria and Lebanon. The trip was her second to the region; in 2002, she [...]