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Community Outreach Program - Des Moines Arts Festival
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June 23 - 25, 2017. Friday and Saturday 11AM - 10PM I Sunday 11AM - 5PM. Silent Rivers VIP Hospitality Suites. Silent Rivers VIP Club. Join the Event Management Team. WINNER - Best Community Outreach Program. International Festivals and Events Association. Applications for the 2016 Prairie Meadows Community Outreach Program are now closed. Please check back next year! Thanks to everyone who applied to be part of this year's program. Watch this space for the announcement of who among the applicants wi...
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Coal
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Coal power plant located in Muscatine, IA. Download Iowa Coal and Health: A Preliminary Mapping Study. View the Executive Summary. View the Full Report. Coal Combustion Waste (Coal Ash). Living near a coal-burning power plant poses major health risks. Studies link coal-derived particulates, including those from fly ash, to the four leading causes of death in the United States: heart disease, cancer, respiratory diseases and stroke. View the Full Prepublication Report.
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Donation Page - Pacific NonProfit Bootstrap Responsive Donation Premium Template on Themeforest
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Please make check or money order payable to:. Iowa Physicians for Social Responsibility (IPSR). 20 E Market St., Room 200. Iowa City, IA 52245. Make an Online Donation Using Your Credit Card via PayPal. Donate to Iowa Shares and Designate Iowa PSR as Recipient. Iowa Shares Iowa PSR joins Iowa Shares in 2005. Please help support Iowa PSR projects. If you wish, donations can be directly to Iowa PSR and be earmarked for specific projects including: Communication and Education (Newsletter, website and ma...
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Climate and Health
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Burning fossil fuels is warming the atmosphere and changing the global climate. Rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and rising sea levels lead to a myriad of health threats. Injury, disease and are major risks of extreme weather events, which are becoming ever more frequent and severe, especially:. Heat Waves and Wildfires. The long term effects of these changes to the global climate system mean increasing:. Crop loss, increased hunger and famine. Mosquito and other vector-borne diseases.
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Environmental Justice
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As a result of the cumulative effects of the political and economic disempowerment and racism, the vast majority of African Americans live in neighborhoods with much higher average exposure to air pollutants of every type. Research indicates that this phenomenon is caused by the discriminatory siting of environmental hazards in existing African American neighborhoods, not (as is sometimes suggested) by a pollution-induced decline in property values and subsequent influx of low-income African Americans.
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Events: Ed Fallon Bakken Pipeline Walk
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Ed Fallon's Bakken Pipeline Walk. March 2, 2015 - April 20, 2015. Beginning on March 2, 2015, Ed Fallon will walk 400 miles following the path of the proposed Bakken Oil Pipeline. He will walk from the southeast corner of Iowa to the northwest corner of the state, meeting with landowners and others to talk about the importance of respecting farmland and the imperative to stop the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure projects. Follow his walk on this page of the Fallon Forum website.
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Earth Day
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Earth Day Family Fun Fair: Help Us Bandage Our Wounded Earth! April 26, 1:00 - 4:00pm. Located at City Park - Shelter #12, Iowa City. Iowa Physician's for Social Reponsibility is proud to host the Family Fun Fair in honor of Earth Day 2015. Activities will include races, a raffle, story-telling and writing, arts and crafts, games, bike safety and more! We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. PSR has been a proud member of Iowa Shares.
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Nuclear Threat
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NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAMS: Total U.S. nuclear weapons TAXES FOR APRIL 15, 2015 and expenditures of $56.3 billion. Iowa Per Capita Nuke Expense - $172.79 Iowa State 2014 Nuclear Tax Expenditure - $536,880,301.50. Johnson County Per Capita Nuke Expense - $189.00 Johnson County 2014 Nuclear Tax Expenditure - $26,892,243.00. Iowa City Per Capita Nuke Expense - $163.80 Iowa City 2014 Nuclear Tax Expenditure - $11,726,605.80. IPPNW Humanitarian Impact Initiative. Nukes in Your Backyard.
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Agriculture and Food
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Des Moines, IA. Nitrate Pollution in Iowa's Drinking Water. Iowa is home to 24 million acres of farmland and an estimated 8,500 factory farms which generate a staggering 5 billion pounds of liquid manure annually a significant source of nitrate pollution. Sediment and nutrients from agricultural practices is the leading nonpoint source pollution. Des Moines Water Works: Notice of Intent to Sue. Information on Nitrate Pollutants and their Adverse Health Effects. Climate Change and Food. Can speed up crop ...
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70th Anniversary Hiroshima Nagasaki
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70 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, A Forum Sunday August 9, 2015. Forum from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm at the Ashton House followed at 3:30 pm by Iowa City Bike Around the Bomb. Featured speakers are David Chappell from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. On "Why Peace is Possible" and Steven Starr who is a PSR. Senior Scientist on "Converging on the Russian Border." (Speaker Bios). Lunch (vegan) will be provided for a suggested donation of $10 or you can bring your own lunch. (Full Program). PSR has been a p...
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