Draft of the City of Lansing 2020 Non-Motorized
Plan
- Jessica Yorko
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Visit http://www.midmeac.org
Other good news from Lansing:
On a
final note of good news, I wanted to share with the task force that the
City Council has included the following items in the budget priorities
for the 08-09 fiscal year:
==> A
comprehensive plan and costs for installing bike lanes on current
roads and integrating bike lanes into future road construction and
rehabilitation projects; and installation of bike lanes upon approval of
the plan.
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Meeting with the Lansing School District to deal with "hazard zones"
and develop a priority list for these areas, and a long-term strategy
for resolving issues including, but not limited to, poor lighting, lack
of crossing guards, sidewalk disrepair, and lack of sidewalks.
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Continuing to complete Lansing's sidewalk network, and keeping
sidewalks in good condition and free of snow, especially in high
traffic areas and on school walking routes.
==> A
new "point of sale" type program to help fund sidewalk repairs.
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Extending the River Trail further south and providing trail
access in South Lansing
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Developing a paved trail system around Davis Park from Pleasant
Grove to Wise Road in South Lansing
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Moving Our Community Toward Health
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With support from Michigan Dept. of Community Health, several local groups
are making progress on healthy community initiatives. Here are their
reports on...
- Benjamin Davis Park improvements
- Hunter Park safety improvements
- Riddle and MidMichigan Leadership Academy school gardens
- An effort to expand of local/fresh produce options at local stores
- Lansing non-motorized planning efforts
Click Here
Coalition Gathering...
Join us for a "Coalition Gathering" on Feb 13th at Gone
Wired Cafe from 11:30 - 1. Please let LeRoy
(leroy@leroyharvey.net or
505-2809) know if you'll be attending and would like food. We will
have updates on local initiatives and a dialogue about collaborative
opportunities.
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Green
Infrastructure: Financing and Local Strategies
a Free Webcast on Green Infrastructure: 1/29
- from Nancy Krupiarz
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Please join National Association of Local Government Environmental
Professionals (NALGEP) for a FREE web cast on Tuesday, January 29, 2008
from 3:00-4:30 PM. This web cast will highlight ways local
governments can implement and finance green infrastructure strategies.
This web cast will feature presentations from:
- Jennifer Cotting, National
Center for Smart Growth, University of Maryland
- Joyce Coffee and Janet
Attarian, City of Chicago, IL
To register for this FREE web cast, please visit:
http://www.nalgep.org/registration/Registration6.cfm
To view presentations prior to the Web Cast, click on the links below:
If you have any questions, contact
nalgep@spiegelmcd.com or call 202-638-6254.
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Master Plan Contractors Meeting
-Paul Dykema and Bill Rieske
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At 6:00 p.m. on January 29, 2008,
the Lansing Department of Planning and Neighborhood Development will hold
a public meeting to interview two consultant teams, one of which may be
selected to assist with the City’s Master Plan Project.
More here
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2nd Monday Bike-Ped Chat
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This informal network (loosely affiliated with Tri-County Complete
Streets), met for the first time on Jan 14. A brief summary of the
conversation is here.Join us
next time at El Azteco on West Saginaw Feb. 11 at 6pm.
Ski Bikes in Germany (called "skibobs")
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Mid-Winter Singing Festival
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There are few things in the world that are healthier for you than singing!
Here's a chance to experience "the power of song."
www.singingfestival.com
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Conversation Week
- Tom Atlee & Vicki Robin
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Background: Dana Meadows,
coauthor of LIMITS TO GROWTH and BEYOND THE LIMITS, famously offered a
hierarchy of places to intervene in a system <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_leverage_points>.
All of them are important, but the first 8 were adaptive tweaks while the
final 4 were transformational - stepping outside the system to observe and
wonder about it. Citizen dialogue at its best is transformational. It
seeks to awaken people to the structures, goals and mindsets out of which
arise our daily struggles to make our personal and collective lives more
sustainable. The effect of such dialogue is unpredictable because they
don't produce any sustained shared activities. Participants return to
their lives, bringing their new insights and increased will to make
change. They also bring with them an experience of how inquiry, respect
and open-mindedness produces better conversational results than assertion,
reactivity and certainty you're right.
Conversation Week: Key to quality
dialogue that CAN make a difference is a good process and A GOOD QUESTION.
Conversation Week is
Conversation
Cafe's annual global dialogue about questions that matter most. Small
hosted groups, using the Conversation Cafe process, meet during that week
face to face to consider one of the 10 selected questions - and report
their findings via a website. It's a chance to hear ourselves think
together globally.
Submit a Question: Big and heartful
thinkers like you are invited to submit questions for consideration.
** THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS FEBRUARY 10. **
Click here
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Focus the Nation
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Don't miss the largest nation teach-in EVER. Educational events on
globla climate change -- and what we can do about it -- will be held at
Lansing Community College and
Michigan State University this
week.
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Quotes of the Week
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a
singing bird will come.
- Chinese Proverb
A society grows great when old men plant trees
whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
- Greek Proverb
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Calendar
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Ongoing...
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Other Calendars
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Jan 29 Regional Trails and Greenways Summit
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Click for
PDF Flier
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Jan 29
Green Infrastructure Web Cast
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click
here
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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 1 - 2
Mid-Winter Singing Festival
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This event is good for your heart, mind, soul and body....
Check it out Friday and Saturday evening...
More at
www.singingfestival.com
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February 2 "Sticky" Dialogue
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Join the 1st Saturday Sustainable Community Dialogue series at Urban
Options, 405 Grove St. in East Lansing from 10am-noon. This month:
"Sticky Messages" with organizational consultant Rob Curtner.
Next month: "Sustainable Landscaping" with Bill Schneider.
more here
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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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February
11 (2nd Monday)
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Bike Ped Chat: Join us for an informal chat about
biking, walking, and your visions for the area. The next
conversation will be at 6pm at El Azteco (1016 West Saginaw).
Click here for a
summary of January's conversation
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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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February 23 Body, Mind, Spirit Wellness Expo
(rescheduled)
- Nancy Brandon
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Rescheduled to April. Contact
nanbran48823@yahoo.com
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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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