Iowa State University is hosting "A Call to Action Summit:Ensuring Iowa's Leadership in the Bioeconomy" from 8:30 am to 4:45 pm Tuesday in the Scheman building in Ames. Registration is required and costs $25 Morning speakers include Iowa Governor-elect Chet Culver,ISU president Gregory Geoffroy and Robert C Brown,Iowa Farm Bureau director of biorenewables programs at ISU. In the afternoon, groups will discuss biomass production,biorefineries,and other topics to develop policy ideas,funding recommendations and plans to work with the Iowa legislature. For more info,go to: www.ucs.iastate.edu/mnet/calltoaction/home.html or call 515-294-6222 (reprinted from Sunday's Des Moines Register) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubsribe from the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask] Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp To view the Sierra Club List Terms & Conditions, see: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/terms.asp