The Drake presentation is in Olin Hall, room 206, at 3:00 on Friday. Thanks, Jane Clark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim H Clark" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 2:22 PM Subject: Mountain Top Removal Road Shows This Week > Mountaintop Removal Mining for Coal-to-Liquids Madness > presented by Dave Cooper, Sierra Club, Lexington, Kentucky. > > At these locations this week--please see details at the end of this message. > Oct 23 Iowa State Univ > Oct 23 Dubuque Iowa Sierra Club > Oct 24 Cornell College, Mt Vernon Iowa > Oct 24 Univ of Iowa > Oct 24 Iowa City Public Library > Oct 25 Upper Iowa Univ, Fayette IA > Oct 25 Univ of Northern Iowa > Oct 26 Iowa State Univ > Oct 26 Drake Univ, Des Moines > > Mountaintop Removal > > The Mountaintop Removal presentation includes a stunning 22-minute slide > show about the impacts of mountaintop removal on coalfield residents, > communities and the environment, and features traditional Appalachian > mountain music and shocking aerial photos of decapitated Appalachian > mountains. > > In West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee and eastern Kentucky, coal companies > blast as much as 600 feet off the top of the mountains, then dump the rock > and debris into mountain streams. > > Over 300,000 acres of the most beautiful and productive hardwood forests in > America have already been turned into barren grasslands. Mountaintop removal > mining increases flooding, contaminates drinking water supplies, cracks > foundations of nearby homes, and showers towns with dust and noise from > blasting. > > There is no charge for the presentation; however donations and honorariums > to defray gas and travel expenses are gratefully accepted. > > > Iowa State Univ. > Where:Ames Iowa > When:Oct 23 12:40 PM > Notes:Tara Clapp [log in to unmask] > 515 290 9713 > College of Design > > White Pine Sierra Club Group > Where:Dubuque Iowa > When:Oct 23 7:00 PM > Basement of US Bank > Kennedy Road & Wacker on Dubuque's west end > > Cornell College, Mt Vernon Iowa > When: Oct 24 12:00 PM > The Commons Student Union - Hedges Lounge > 319 895 4306 > > Iowa City Iowa > Where:Public Library > When:Oct 24 7:00 PM > Notes:[log in to unmask] 319 594 6453 > > Upper Iowa Univ. > Where:Fayette Iowa > When:Oct 25 12:00 PM > Notes:Dr Katherine McCarville > [log in to unmask] > Baker Hebron Science Hall 101 > > Univ. of Northern Iowa > Where:Waterloo Iowa > When:Oct 25 7:00 PM > Notes:Dr Kamyar Enshayan > [log in to unmask] > UNI Center for Energy and Env Education > > Iowa State Univ > Where:Ames Iowa > When:Oct 26 12:00 PM > Notes:Dr James Pritchard [log in to unmask] > 515 294 8830 > Science II room 135 > > Drake University > Where:Des Moines Iowa > When:Oct 26 3:00 PM > Notes:[log in to unmask] > Biology and Env. Science Seminar > 515 271 2920 > location TBD > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To unsubscribe 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 > > Sign up to receive Sierra Club Insider, the flagship > e-newsletter. Sent out twice a month, it features the Club's > latest news and activities. Subscribe and view recent > editions at http://www.sierraclub.org/insider/ > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe 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 Sign up to receive Sierra Club Insider, the flagship e-newsletter. Sent out twice a month, it features the Club's latest news and activities. Subscribe and view recent editions at http://www.sierraclub.org/insider/