Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

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Spencer Award

Winners of the 2011 Spencer Award for Sustainable Agriculture will be honored in a special presentation March 1 during the quarterly meeting of the Leopold Center Advisory Board. The presentation will begin around 11:30 a.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn in Ames. Read about this year’s dual winners, Mike Natvig and Bernard “Bernie” Havlovic, on page 8.

2012 Shivvers Lecture

Acclaimed author, biologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber will present “Environmental Pollution, Climate Change and Our Health” on Sunday, March 4 at 7 p.m. in the Sun Room of the ISU Memorial Union. Her latest book is Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis.

Ames Reads Leopold

The focus will be on youth for this annual event that is part of Aldo Leopold Weekend activities across the country. The Ames group led by retired ISU professor Erv Klaas celebrates its fifth anniversary of coming together to read out loud from Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac. The event will take place Sunday, March 4 at the Ames Public Library.

Symphony of the Soil

The Leopold Center and UNI’s Center for Energy and Environmental Education will bring award-winning filmmaker Deborah Koons Garcia to Iowa for the screening of her newest work, Symphony of the Soil. The feature-length film explores soil from its birth and many creatures making up the soil community to nutrient cycling and our relationship with soil to the latest research on how soil can help solve environmental problems. Garcia and assistant Jessica Beckett will lead discussions after the Cedar Falls screening on March 27, and the Ames screening on March 28.

National award

Leopold Center Distinguished Fellow Fred Kirschenmann (right top) poses at a press briefing in New York City after he received the James F. Beard Foundation’s Leadership Award. He and nine other “food pioneers” were honored for their dedication to sustainable food and farming systems.  With him is New York chef and foundation board member Dan Barber, who works with Kirschenmann at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. The awards capped a two-day conference about how media influence the way we eat.

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