Just wanted to mention that on Mon. Feb. 9th, Dr. Dennis Keeney, Professor Emeritus of Agronomy and Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and former Director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, gave two presentations.

The first was: “Ethanol’s Power Politics: Social and Environmenal Consequences” at noontime.  It was a really informative addition to the orientation hoopla, and quite a contrast to Hal Kamine’s “Renewable Fuels In Today’s Capital Markets” presentation in October.  Dr. Keeney also gave an evening presentation entitled “From Plate to Gulf: the Social and Environmental Role of Corn”, I wasn’t able to go to that one, but I’m sure it was great and again very relevant to the campus food production/orientation buzz.

At 4PM, Dr. Keeney had a question/answer session with the student garden team.  Lots of enthusiastic gardeners showed up to ask questions 🙂

Jenn