Iowa SEED (Sustainable Energy for Economic Development) is offering a series of public forums on renewable energy topics and how wind farms & biomass production will improve the future of Iowa 's rural economy. The next meeting will be held this Saturday, April 28th - at Forest City High School, from 10 am. - 1 pm. Free public forum - Presenters at the Forest City event will include: Darwin and Lois McConkey -Alta Farm family, will discuss their experience with wind turbines Ed Woolsey - Board of Directors, Iowa Renewable Energy Association (I-Renew) Angela Chen - Executive Officer, Energy Bureau, Department of Natural Resources Ronald O.Kvale - Forest City High School teacher, local wind turbine education Forest City High School 's ELECTRATHON TEAM will be displaying their electric vehicles before and after the presentations Forest City High School is located at 206 W.School St. in Forest City (in Winnebago County, west of Mason City) For more information: please call Rich Dana, UCS Field Coordinator, at (319) 685-4270 or visit http://www.geocities.com/energyfarming/meeting_schedule.html ---------- Sponsors for these meetings include: The Iowa SEED Coalition, The Union of Concerned Scientists, Cafe ' del Sol Roasters, Ecumenical Ministries of Iowa, Iowa Citizen Action Network, The Iowa Department of Natural Resources, The Iowa Farmers Union, The Iowa Network for Community Agriculture (INCA), The Iowa Renewable Energy Association (I-Renew), Iowa State University Extension, The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Practical Farmers of Iowa, The Wallace Foundation for Rural Research and Development & The Wallace House Foundation - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - For SC email list T-and-C, send: GET TERMS-AND-CONDITIONS.CURRENT to [log in to unmask]