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Green
Infrastructure Workshop a Big Success
- Jon Coleman
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I would like to express my appreciation to all of you who helped plan and
support the recent very successful Greening Mid-Michigan Workshop. Also a
special thanks to Nancy Krupiarz for her leadership and willingness to be
the fiduciary for this team effort.I also congratulate all of you on a
job well done in this important first step in developing a Green
Infrastructure Plan for our region. We will be looking for additional
funding from local, state and federal sources to move to the next level in
this planning process, so if any of you spot a possible funding source
please let me know and I or someone on the team will follow up on it.
At
the next Land Use and Health Resource Team (LUHRT) meeting at 10am on
March 18th at the Ingham County Human Services Building, Atrium conference
room on the 2nd floor, we will have a follow up discussion on how we
should proceed from this point forward. If you would like to participate
in this discussion but are not a member of the LUHRT please let Janine
Sinno know by e-mailing her at Janine Sinno (jsinno@ingham.org )
so she can send you an agenda and related information. Thanks again for
all your time and effort on this important regional project!
Please find below an excerpt from the March 7th e-newsletter, “This
Week At The Land Policy Institute" which includes the attached article
about the workshop and several links to related information including our
web site at
www.greeningmidmichigan.org . Thanks to Mary Beth Lake for
writing the article and being an active participant in the workshop. The full article by Mary Beth Lake is also in the attachment above. A
special thanks to the MSU Land Policy Institute for their funding support
and active participation in our Greening Mid-Michigan project.
click here for article
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Greater Lansing Convention & Visitors Bureau Partnering
Possibilities?
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Some of you have worked with GLCVB for years.
Linda Sims, Sr. Advisor for Multi-cultural
and Community Engagement, is exploring
potential partnerships with MOCTH and other healthy community initiatives.
Please contact Linda at
ssserve@usa.net or 517-372-6892 and/or
leroy@leroyharvey.net with your
ideas, questions, and suggestions.
Check out some of their cool web
resources:
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Green Building Newsletter
- Janine Sinno
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Ingham County's latest Green Building Newsletter can be found
here.
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Regional Transportation Planning and Action
Opportunities
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Several institutions and local units of government have recently "paved
the way" for non-motorized transportation planning and action including
Lansing,
Lansing Township,
MSU, Tri-County,
and others.
Now, East Lansing has recently launched a Multimodal Transportation Task
Force.
Perhaps it's time to transform our entire region into a "multimodal
masterpiece?"
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Rural Route Film Festival
- Ginger Oglivie & Steve Hayward
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The Rural Route Film Festival has been created to highlight works
that deal with rural people and places. Check it out:
here.Flier
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State and National News, Events, & Issues
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Energy Security and Climate Change
- Janine Sinno
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The amount we drive our cars plays an outsized role in our country’s
contribution to global warming and dependence on oil. But why do
we drive so much?
http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/factsheets/climate.pdf
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Food Deserts
- Janine Sinno
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Here's some important research on food deserts:
shop here
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Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil
& Climate Change
- Megan Quinn,
Community Solutions
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I'm struck by how similar Plan C (and other Peak Oil
initiatives) matches our local, regional, and state healthy community
goals -- increasing alternative modes of transportation and access to
fresh healthy food... Interesting how things the make us healthy are
good for us in other ways too! - LH
Plan C shows how each person's individual choices
can dramatically reduce CO2 emissions. It offers specific strategies in
the areas of food, transportation and housing...
click here for more
info.
Also from Megan Quinn (just to tickle your imagination):
Findhorn Foundation's
Positive
Energy Conference
with sessions on:
• Creating
a community-supported agriculture (CSA) scheme
• Creating
a community currency and bank
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Principles of ecological housing
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Transition Towns methodology
• Setting
up a Living Machine waste-water treatment plant
• Creating
and managing community woodlands
• Creating and managing
a community-owned wind-park
Rethinking the City Conference
‘De-carbonising Our Urban
Environment’ (in Dublin on April 4).
Click here
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Quote of the Week
-Bill Diedrich
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Bill's latest newsletter has an article on "being present and conscious
with others" Click here.
You can find some other helpful articles on his website.
Click here
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Calendar
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Community Calendar
Tool
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calendar
Learn to add events to this calendar from any computer (that's online)!
Register and start posting events today. As soon as
you do -- your events will show up in this "Healthy and Green Community
Calendar" -- the moment you add or update them!
Best of all, this tool is developed by a local resident to BUILD
COMMUNITY -- not by a multi-national corporation beholden to some distant
investors, who don't necessarily live in our community - or even care
about building our community... not that Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo
don't love Lansing like we do!
In about 15 minutes, you (or your webmaster) can create a calendar like
the one below (or a variety of other formats) -- featuring your events
and/or any organization's calendar you subscribe to... free!
That's right! You start a calendar, I subscribe to it, and then
it shows up HERE as soon as you add your event!
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Mar 18
Sustainable Speaker Series Continues
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Click here
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Mar 18 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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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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Mar 26
Marketing in Tough Economic Times
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Attention all business
owners! Capital Area Local First and Allen Neighborhood Center will host a
free informational meeting on Wednesday March 26th from
5:00-7:00 pm at Trippers in Frandor. This free event will include an
educational speaker presenting on ‘Marketing in Tough Economic Times’, as
well as information about joining Capital Area Local First. For more
information call Kate at 517-999-3923.
www.localfirst.info
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Mar 26
Midwinter Market Event
- Joan Nelson
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Join us at
the Allen Neighborhood Center for a Midwinter Market Event from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.. We
will be constructing and painting new signs and markers for use at
Allen St. Farmers Market. Not interested in signs? Come over and
help us cook and watch our feature food film. For more information, contact Hollie at 517-999-3911.
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Apr 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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Apr 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”
New Revised Flier
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Apr 4-5 Rural Route Film
Fest
- Ginger Ogilvie
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click here
Flier 1
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Apr 12 Body, Mind, Spirit Wellness Expo
(rescheduled from 2/23)
- Nancy Brandon
nanbran48823@yahoo.com
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click here
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Apr 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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May 29-30 Designing
Healthy Livable Communities
-Paul Hamilton
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The preliminary program and registration
brochure for the May 29-30 Fourth Michigan Designing Healthy Livable
Communities Conference is attached for your information. Please post
on your web sites, distribute and register early and often.
Click
here
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Jul 26 Saturday in the Park
-Joan Nelson
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Allen Neighborhood Center
presents
Saturday in the
Park
A Day
of Food, Fun, & Fitness in Hunter Park including...
- a youth 3-on-3 basketball tournament
- a 3K family fun walk
- tours of the Hunter Park GardenHouse
- gardening workshops
- Mini Farmers Market
- the new Hunter Park pool and splash area
- live music
- exercise samplers
- and much, much,
more
Call
Sarah Steele of ANC at 367-2468, ext. 2008 for further information.
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