Iowa's path to sustainability

Streaming video - 2024

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