PRESS & MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS

Iowa Faith & Climate Network, its programs, and its supporters are often featured in the press and media.

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IOWA FAITH & CLIMATE NETWORK COVERAGE

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Jane Goodall and our part in bettering the world

March 25, 2025 | Irene DeMaris | Iowa Public Radio

Featuring Iowa Faith & Climate Network Executive Director, Irene DeMaris

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Iowa faith-based climate nonprofit rebrands, looks to the future

March 9, 2025 | Irene DeMaris | The Gazette

Featuring Iowa Faith & Climate Network Executive Director, Irene DeMaris

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Bridging Faith and Climate: How Religious Communities Are Leading the Way

March 7, 2025 | Irene DeMaris | Weathering Climate Change

Featuring Iowa Faith & Climate Network Executive Director, Irene DeMaris

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Faith, Climate, and Action - How Iowa’s Religious Communities Are Leading the Fight Against Climate Change

March 5, 2025 | Irene DeMaris | Three Degrees Podcast

Featuring Iowa Faith & Climate Network Executive Director, Irene DeMaris

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Tornado direct hit on Des Moines metro underscores the need to act on climate

July 21, 2024 | Irene DeMaris | Des Moines Register

Featuring Iowa Faith & Climate Network Executive Director, Irene DeMaris

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Watch Live! Later is Too Late Rally at Berkshire Hathaway's Shareholder Meeting

May 4, 2024 | Clean Up MidAm | YouTube

Featuring a rally at the Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Meeting in Omaha, organized and led by Clean Up MidAm

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Climate Activism on Earth Day in Iowa

April 22, 2024 | Irene DeMaris | We Are Iowa

Featuring Iowa Faith & Climate Network Executive Director, Irene DeMaris

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We're Stewards of This Land

Oct. 26, 2023 | Warren Varley/Clean Up MidAm | YouTube

Warren’s family has farmed in Adair County for six generations, driven by the belief that we are all stewards of this land. With three wind turbines generating clean electricity on his farm, he’s now calling on MidAmerican to shut down their toxic coal plants.

FAITH FARMS & CLIMATE COVERAGE

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Once skeptics, Iowa farmers look to lead fight against global warming

November 9, 2020 | Christopher King | KGAN cbs2iowa.com

Featuring Faith Farms & Climate farmers, Wade Dooley and Mitchell Hora.

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Farmers Preach Climate Change Gospel in the Heartland

June 2020 | Staff | CircleAround

Featuring Faith Farms & Climate farmers, Laura Krouse and Margaret Smith.

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Farmers Challenge Climate Change

June 16, 2020 | Jill Woodward, Gary Strieker, and Dave Timko | PBS’s This American Land

Featuring our former executive director Matt Russell, Aaron Lehman of the Iowa Farmers’ Union, Dr. Emily Heaton, and farmer Justin Jordan.

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Scientists say farmers could grow their way out of the climate crisis

August 8, 2019 | Bill Weir | CNN

Featuring Faith Farms & Climate farmers Justin Jordan and Ray Gaesser.

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One Man Is Trying to Fight Climate Change By Mobilizing an Unlikely Team: Iowa’s Farmers

July/August 2019 | Brian Barth | Mother Jones

Featuring our former executive director Matt Russell and our Faith Farms & Climate program.

CALLED TO CLIMATE ACTION STUDENT LEADER OP EDS

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Climate change is a big threat to farmers and the rest of us. Let's focus on that instead of arguing.

October 15, 2021 | Claira Miller | Des Moines Register

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Challenging Iowans to act on climate change

April 22, 2021 | Kennedy Warner | The Gazette

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Individual actions are good, but systemic change can save the planet

January 22, 2021 | Alyssa Corkery | EarthBeat
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Young climate activists like me need support from older generations

October 16, 2020 | Tiffany Van Gilst | Times-Republican
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Dordt student: Climate change affects everything, and as a Christian I’m compelled to act

September 17, 2020 | Alexandra Lund | Des Moines Register
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Calling the faithful to act on climate

October 23, 2019 | Jacob Jansen | The Gazette

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