Posted by Ericka Dana, Sierra Iowa City Area Group Membership Chair
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> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002
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> 1. Earth Day event will be the hike to Neil Smith Prairie (see your
> newsletter for info. and details).
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> Clint J. Campbell
> Group Chair, ICAG
> The Sierra Club
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Here is some more information I've found about this event:

From: http://www.tallgrass.org/goals.html
Goals of the Neil Smith National Wildlife Refuge

To increase biodiversity by restoring and reconstructing tallgrass prairie
and savanna habitats. 
To increase public knowledge and understanding of prairie through
environmental education. 
To increase scientific knowledge and understanding of the prairie and
savanna through ongoing research. 
To provide a diverse recreational landscape for public use and education.

Become a Member or aVolunteer Today!
Call (515) 994-3400.
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For those of you who want to make Earth Day plans - see:
http://www.tallgrass.org/news.html#Events

Earth Day - Saturday, April 20th
 9:00 am.  - 3:00pm.
Volunteers from across Iowa will once again take to the prairies for Earth
Day. Activities at the Neal Smith NWR this year will consist of various
stewardship projects. Removing non-native trees from the prairie and
savannah remnants is always a popular activity. Transplanting seedlings,
cleaning seeds and working in our greenhouse are some of the other
activities that will take place.

An e-mail description of the up coming workday and work-night (the last
Thursday of the month) is sent about twice a month. If you would like to be
added to the list, send Jonathan an e-mail at <[log in to unmask]>.

For more information on any of these activities, call the refuge at (515)
994-3400.
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If you are interested in volunteering to help out with our next new member
event - a summer film series developed & presented by Catnip Farm featuring
the following videos (and possibly two land use documentary videos:
"Cornerstones" and "Life on a Farm" which address urban sprawl in Iowa and
the rapid loss of farmland and agriculture) - please contact Ericka Dana,
ICAG Membership Chair @ (319)  685-4270 or <[log in to unmask]>:
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"Making a Difference" - An Educational Documentary Film Series

1) "Ecological Design - Inventing the Future"

A film about integrating Nature, Technology and Humanity - produced by Brian
Danitz and Chris Zelov - Winner of 7 Film Festival Awards.

This is an educational documentary film which illuminates the emergence of
ecological design in the 20th Century. The film features the ideas and
prototypes of pioneering designers who have trail-blazed the development of
sustainable architecture, cities, energy systems a, transport and industry.
 
This film will be shown with "Harvest the Wind" - a 10 minute documentary
produced in Iowa by the Iowa DNR on renewable energy.
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 2) "Perils Amid Progress; Genetically Engineered Food"

by Marion Appel (2000)

A documentary about the federal regulation of genetically engineered food
crops. The film runs 40 minutes.
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3) "The Witness... a change in perception"

Winner of a number of best documentary film awards, produced by Tribe of the
Heart - how does a construction contractor from a tough Brooklyn
neighborhood become an impassioned animal activist?
Running time: 43 minutes.
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4) The original (never aired on television) FOX TV expose' video about
 recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rGBH) and the dairy industry by former
FOX TV reporters Jane Acre and Steve Wilson.

Professional quality full-length video report, uncut.
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