The Emperor's New Energy
Sunday, March 26, Cedar Rapids

Kamyar Enshayan, UNI Center for Energy and Environmental Education and
community activist, presents "The Emperor's New Energy." What are the
questions we, as ordinary citizens, ought to ask of any proposed "new"
energy source that is claimed to solve our energy problems? As oil supplies
dwindle, marketers are selling all sorts of things as "renewable" energy.
How do we sort through them? Dr. Enshayan, an agricultural engineer, is also
a member of the Cedar Falls City Council and active in local food networks.

His latest book, about renewable energy options, is "Living Within Our
Means." This presentation and discussion will take place on Sunday, Mar 26,
at 2:00 p.m., at Indian Creek Nature Center, 6665 Otis Rd. SE, Cedar Rapids
(just south of Mt. Vernon Rd. SE and west of Hwy. 13). Free Will Offering.
For more information, go to www.indiancreeknaturecenter.org / 319.362.0664.

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Live Well, Live Wild Conference
April 24-25, Iowa City

An Iowa Conference on the Wild, "Live Well, Live Wild: A Community Concourse
on Undomesticating and Rewilding," will be held on April 24-25, in the
Richey Ballroom, Iowa Memorial Union, at the University of Iowa in Iowa
City. Keynoters are Bill McKibben and Stephanie Mills.

The human relationship with the wild comprises a complex of positions and
actions: attitudes, values, assumptions, interests, worshippings, uses,
abuses, domination, reverence, exploitation, stewardship. This "concourse"
will ask attendees to confront themselves, each other, and our society in
general regarding how we have lost the "wild" in Iowa specifically and our
society in generally, and how we can bring it back into our imaginations,
our values, our actions, and our land.

An e-mail discussion list will help begin the conversation before the
conference, and all are invited to participate.
For complete conference information, please visit
www.uiowa.edu/~ipops/conferenceonthewild.  Inquiries may be directed to
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