Library Event2nd Sunday Garden Forum: Iowa's Path to Sustainability, a panel discussion lead by Connie Mutel

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Sunday, February 11, 2024 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm

02/11/2024 2:00pm 02/11/2024 4:00pm 2nd Sunday Garden Forum: Iowa's Path to Sustainability, a panel discussion lead by Connie Mutel

Ecologist and writer Connie Mutel, will moderate today's panel  "Iowa's Path to Sustainability" based on the book Tending Iowa's Land - Pathways to a Sustainable Future. 

Connie assembled a cast of premier Iowa scientists and environmental activists to write Tending Iowa’s Land (University of Iowa Press, 2022) which examined our state’s current environmental problems and lead a discussion on viable solutions. 

Today's panelists: 

  • Pauline Drobney, Prairie Zone Biologist, US Fish & Wildlife Service - Neal Smith Wildlife Refuge
  • Keith E Schilling, State Geologist of Iowa, Iowa Geological Survey Director
  • Jerald Schnoor, Professor in the UI Depts of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Occupational & Environmental Health, and Co-Director of the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER) 
  • Francis Thicke, formerly a scientist with the US Dept. of Agriculture, and for over 30 years the owner and operator of organic "Radiance Dairy" in Fairfield Iowa
  • Larry Weber, Director of the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research

 

Connie Mutel is the author of over a dozen additional books including A Sugar Creek Chronicle: Observing Climate Change from a Midwestern Woodland (Iowa, 2016) and The Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa (Iowa, 2008). Before retiring, Connie was a Senior Science Writer at IIHR – Hydroscience & Engineering at The University of Iowa College of Engineering.

 

This live event will also be streamed live on the Library's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thelibrarychannel

The Second Sunday Garden Forums are cosponsored by Project GREEN and the Iowa City Public Library.

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Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

Ecologist and writer Connie Mutel, will moderate today's panel  "Iowa's Path to Sustainability" based on the book Tending Iowa's Land - Pathways to a Sustainable Future. 

Connie assembled a cast of premier Iowa scientists and environmental activists to write Tending Iowa’s Land (University of Iowa Press, 2022) which examined our state’s current environmental problems and lead a discussion on viable solutions. 

Today's panelists: 

  • Pauline Drobney, Prairie Zone Biologist, US Fish & Wildlife Service - Neal Smith Wildlife Refuge
  • Keith E Schilling, State Geologist of Iowa, Iowa Geological Survey Director
  • Jerald Schnoor, Professor in the UI Depts of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Occupational & Environmental Health, and Co-Director of the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER) 
  • Francis Thicke, formerly a scientist with the US Dept. of Agriculture, and for over 30 years the owner and operator of organic "Radiance Dairy" in Fairfield Iowa
  • Larry Weber, Director of the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research

 

Connie Mutel is the author of over a dozen additional books including A Sugar Creek Chronicle: Observing Climate Change from a Midwestern Woodland (Iowa, 2016) and The Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa (Iowa, 2008). Before retiring, Connie was a Senior Science Writer at IIHR – Hydroscience & Engineering at The University of Iowa College of Engineering.

 

This live event will also be streamed live on the Library's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thelibrarychannel

The Second Sunday Garden Forums are cosponsored by Project GREEN and the Iowa City Public Library.

If you need disability-related accommodations in order to participate in this event, please contact the Library.

This event is open to the public.

Cosponsor

Cosponsor Organization: Project GREEN

Cosponsor Name: Linda Schreiber

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