I meet Loren Southwick at the Ryerson’s Woods parking lot. We shake hands, and I hop into a black pickup. Southwick, a retired contractor and engineer who currently lives in Missouri, owns four properties about a mile away, just south of Iowa City limits on the Camino Del Rio, a secluded road that traces the Iowa […]
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Incarcerated in Iowa Symposium to foster connections between Iowa’s prisons, surrounding communities
The University of Iowa Prison Projects Coalition will host the inaugural Incarcerated in Iowa Symposium, bringing into focus Iowa’s nine prisons and over…
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‘An Evening at the Ecopolis’ presents optimistic vision for Iowa City
What will the environment of Iowa City look like a few decades from now? Jeff Biggers, the UI Office of Sustainability’s writer in residence, suggests that it’s…
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Old King Coal: University of Iowa making slow progress on its renewable energy agenda
I’m standing on the Burlington Street sidewalk, opposite the University of Iowa Main Power Plant downtown, waiting. I scan the building: a complicated…
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What can Iowa Citians learn from Jane Goodall?
It’s 6:45 p.m. when I enter Carver-Hawkeye, and the place is already packed. Maneuvering through the crowds, I walk down to the stage, as close as I can get before security tells me to stop, and I find a lone seat beside two college students. The couple tells me they’d arrived at six, by which time most of the front seats had already been claimed.
