Quality Dairy Article in New Farm
-Katie Olender
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www.newfarm.org/features/2007/1207/fooddesert/olender.shtml
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Lansing Featured in Active Michigan Communities
- Sarah Panken
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The latest issue of Active MI Communities features many "cool" things...
including Lansing.
Click here
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MOCTH Coalition Gathering:
Date Change
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Join the MOCTH Coalition and discover some exciting ways neighborhood
groups, local and state government, businesses, schools, and nonprofits
are working together to inspire healthy communities in Greater Lansing!
We have rescheduled this meeting to the 13th or 14th of February at Gone
Wired Cafe, at 11:30am. Please share your preferred meeting date
with leroy@leroyharvey.net
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January 8th Food System Meeting
- Katie Olender
katie@nwlansing.org
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Tuesday, January 8th at 4pm at the Letts Community Center (on Kalamazoo,
one block West of MLK Jr. Blvd) is our next Food Systems Project meeting.
We have lots of new things going on:
- A new intern to kick off the Mid-Michigan
Leadership Academy Garden!
- A garden curriculum that actually ties the garden
to the Michigan curriculum – in the works!
- Hiring a new Food Systems staff person!
- Lots of fantastic new volunteers for the second
half of the Riddle school year!
- Updates to the QD project!
- Cooking classes up and running again!
I’d love to see some new (and old!) faces on Tuesday so please come if
you can. Our meetings last one hour.
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2nd Monday Ped/Bike Chat
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Join us for an informal chat on the 2nd Mondays, January 14th at 6pm to talk about
regional ped/bike-friendly communities. This month: El Azteco
in E. Lansing.
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Active Transportation
- from the Governor's Council on Physical Fitness
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Have you been looking for
information to support your efforts to advocate for active transportation
options in your community? The Rails to Trail Conservancy offers
helpful factsheets that include statistics, case studies and success
stories to bring to life the benefits of active transportation:
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Mobility
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Economic Development
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Climate
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Family and Community
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Health
Click here for more info.
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Website and Video of the Week
- Tim Potter
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http://outyourbackdoor.com/
(a cool website developed by his brother)
and...
"The Bicyclist" (http://www.thebicyclist.tv)
"bike-culture-oriented webcast TV show dramedy"
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Calendar
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Ongoing Activities & Resources
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Jan 7 Advocate for Street Changes
- from Jessica Yorko
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Want to see some changes to traffic speeds and patterns along
Saginaw Street? If you do, then it’s time to start speaking up… a little
louder. Strategy meeting scheduled for Monday, January 7, 2008, 1:30 p.m.
at Las Palmas Restaurant, 1909 W. Saginaw.
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Jan 12
Sustainable Community Dialogue Series Begins
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Participate in a lively conversation from 10-noon -- usually on the 1st
Saturday of the month. Details here.
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Jan 12
The Culture of Dance
-Nancy Brandon
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Check out the "Culture of Dance" Click for a
poster or brochure
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Jan 14
Regional Ped/Bike-Friendly Conversation
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Join us for an informal chat on the 2nd Monday at 6pm to talk about
regional ped/bike-friendly communities. This month: El Azteco
in E. Lansing.
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Jan 15
The Main Street
Approach" to Revitalization
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Tuesday, January 15, 2007: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Main Street approach to business district
revitalization: proven techniques for revitalization: Learn from Bob Trezise, Director of the Lansing
Economic Development Corporation, about these techniques that have helped
revitalize business districts across the nation. Note new
meeting location: Sparrow St. Lawrence Campus, Fitzpatrick Room. (Directly
across the hall from the Clark Center.)
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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 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 23 Body, Mind, Spirit Wellness Expo
- Nancy Brandon
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Body, Mind, Spirit Wellness Expo:
Click for poster
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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. Please
RSVP to Nancy Krupiarz at
nancy@michigantrails.org until further notice. 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 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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Coalition Member Update
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