Join staff from ICPL and Green IA AmeriCorps for a discussion of Deep Green - Solutions to stop global warming now.
How do we reverse global warming before the planet our children will inherit is completely fried? Filmmaker Matt Briggs...
Nature & Gardening
Upcoming events
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 - 6:00pm
Online
Iowa is about to become a serious tourist trap...well at least for birds. The state sits in the middle of the Mississippi flyway, a route used by more than 100 million birds to migrate each season. Iowa’s grasslands, forests, and water bodies...
Sunday, February 14, 2021 - 2:00pm
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Grab your sweetheart and join us for our special Valentine’s Day presentation by a favorite Project Green Forum speaker, Dr. Donald Lewis from ISU, whose timely topic will be “Love and Sex in the Garden”. While we think of our gardens as...
Saturday, February 20, 2021 - 4:00pm
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Join Green Iowa AmeriCorps and the Iowa City Public Library for a discussion of The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural history of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with...
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 7:00pm
Online
THE POLLINATORS is a cinematic journey around the United States following migratory beekeepers and their truckloads of honey bees as they pollinate the flowers that become the fruits, nuts and vegetables we all eat. The many challenges the...
Sunday, March 14, 2021 - 2:00pm
Online
Iowa City gardener and author Beth Cody will give a presentation of the history of ornamental gardening in Iowa, illustrated by a slideshow of beautiful vintage gardens and colorful seed catalogues from her new book, “Iowa Gardens of the Past”....
Saturday, March 20, 2021 - 4:00pm
Online
Join Green Iowa AmeriCorps and the Iowa City Public Library for a discussion of The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke.
America’s electrical grid, an engineering triumph of the twentieth...
Saturday, April 17, 2021 - 4:00pm
Online
Join Green Iowa AmeriCorps and the Iowa City Public Library for a discussion of World of Wonders - In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee...
Saturday, May 15, 2021 - 4:00pm
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Join Green Iowa AmeriCorps and the Iowa City Public Library for a discussion of All we can save - Truth, courage, and solutions for the climate crisis edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson.
Provocative and illuminating essays from women at...
Saturday, June 19, 2021 - 4:00pm
Online
Join Green Iowa AmeriCorps and the Iowa City Public Library for a discussion of Making Local Food Work - the challenges and opportunities of today's small farmers by Brandi Janssen.
When it comes to local food, it takes more than...