Non-Motorized Transportation Plan for Lansing
(and beyond)
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Check out this groundbreaking effort at
www.midmeac.org/draftplan
or here for a
smaller version (1/22/08 draft) (Contact MMEAC for latest versions)
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Healthy and Sustainable Communities Summary (part II)
-Janine Sinno
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Last week's update on this workshop has been distilled into a
slideshow, thanks to Doak Bloss.
PDF
PPT
If you'd like to make suggestions on next steps please contact
jsinno@ingham.org
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$6 million Grant to Study Growth and Change
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More here
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Focus the Nation Heats Up
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Addressing what could be one of the biggest health, economic, and
environmental challenges (and opportunities) of the century, LCC, MSU, and
Waverly High School will host
Focus the Nation Activities next week. Billed as the largest
"teach in" ever, Focus the Nation brings together over 1450 institutions
around the country to learn about climate change and positive steps we can
take to "keep our cool." Find out more at:
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Speaking of Global Warming...
- Ivy Hughes,
Lansing Capital Gains
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Read about what Lansing Board of Water and Light is doing to combat global
warming in this news clip from Capital Gains.
Click here.
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Regional Alliances
- Dawn Parker
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Susan McGillicuddy shares some eye-opening perspectives in this excellent
article by Dawn Parker. Click here
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Discovering Where We Live
-Norma Bauer
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Environmentalism and climate change are hot topics; yet they're still
often imagined as the territory of scientists, expert activists, and those
who can afford to be environmentally conscious. We discover two people who
are transforming the ecology of their immediate worlds in Dunn, Wisconsin
and New York's South Bronx.
click here
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Regional Trails and Greenways Summit
- Nancy Krupiarz
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Don't miss this rare educational opportunity coming up next week in nearby
Flint.Click here
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Creating Killers
- Lloyd Thomas
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With news of serial killers saturating our media, this is one angle you
might not read about in your local newspaper...
click here
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Quote of the Week
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Here's a list of
obsolete laws.
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Calendar
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Ongoing...
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Other Calendars
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Jan 21 Martin Luther King Day Event
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Check out this special luncheon hosted by Lansing's MLK Commission.
Dr.
Marc Lamont Hill will present "Injustice Anywhere Remains a Threat to
Justice Everywhere"
Click here for more
info.
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Jan 21 Diabetic
Cooking Class
- Jennifer Lamphere
jlamphere@cristo-rey.org
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A diabetic cooking class coming up on January 21st from 1-3pm at Cristo
Rey Community Center. People can register by calling 372-4700.
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Jan 22 MI Recreation and Park Assoc. Annual
Conference
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Click for
PDF Flier
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Jan 29 Regional Trails and Greenways Summit
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Click for
PDF Flier
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Jan 31 Focus the Nation
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Read more about this national
"teach in" on Climate Change
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February 1 Land Use
Luncheon Series
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Jeff Padden, President, Public Policy Associates discusses “Successful
Strategies -- Revitalizing Michigan’s Central Cities”
click here
PDF Flier
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February 5 Green
Jobs: Sustaining Employment and Environment in the 21st Century
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Leo W. Gerard,
International President of the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber,
Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International
Union. Mr. Gerard will be speaking about “Green Jobs: Sustaining
Employment and Environment in the 21st Century”. Please join us at 7:00 PM
in 107 South Kedzie Hall.
more at www.ecofoot.msu.edu/
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April 15 Guardianship for Future Generations:
Legal and Policy Frameworks”
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Tuesday April 15th 2008 we welcome Carolyn Raffensperger ,
Executive
Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network to our fair
campus. Carolyn will be addressing “Guardianship for Future Generations:
Legal and Policy Frameworks”at 7:30 PM in room 109 South Kedzie Hall.
more at
www.ecofoot.msu.edu/
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March 6
Green Infrastructure Planning
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Help identify the natural areas in our region that our most important to
us!
Don't miss this opportunity to begin to map our Green
Infrastructure in the tri-county area! The activity will happen on
March 6th from 5:30 - 8:30 pm at the
Hannah Community Center at 819 Abbot Rd. in East Lansing. More details
coming soon. Read more
about Green Infrastructure
here.
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March 7 Land Use
Luncheon Series
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Eric Schertzing, Ingham County Treasurer explores “The Ingham County Land
Bank—A Tool for Re-building Cities”
click here
PDF Flier
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Mar 19 CADL Sustainable Living Exhibition
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Capital Area District Library has chosen Inconvenient Truth, by Al Gore,
as its countywide read for 2008. Discussions of the book will be
taking place in all14 branches and will be featured in area bookstores.
As a culminating event, a panel of three presenters have been invited to
discuss topics ranging from overview of global warming (Steve Curwood,
author and host of the NPR program Living on Earth); to an idea of what a
community can do ( David Konkle, Energy Coordinator for the City of Ann
Arbor); to a very personal account of living sustainably (author Judith
Levine, Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping).
More here
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April 1
How Today’s 20 Year Olds Will Become the Greatest
Generation and Save the Planet
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Tuesday April 1st 2008 we welcome Dr. Eban Goodstein,
Professor of Economics and founder of
Focus the Nation
(see left). Dr. Goodstein will be talking about “How Today’s 20 Year Olds
Will Become the Greatest Generation and Save the Planet” at 7:30 PM in
room 109 South Kedzie Hall.
more at www.ecofoot.msu.edu/
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April 4 Land Use Luncheon Series
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Dr. John Biernbaum, MSU Professor of Plant and Soil
Science talks about “The Return to Locally Grown, Healthy Food”
click here
PDF Flier
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May 29-30 Save the Dates
-Paul Hamilton
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Save the dates for the 4th
Designing Healthy Livable
Communities Conference
to be held on May 29 & 30. Paul says we'll have some of the
best speaker in the country on the topics of
Public Participation/Consensus Building/Charettes and
Transit Ready Development.
More to come...
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