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Healthy Initiatives Spring from Westside Alliance
- Jessica Yorko
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Start Smart Commuting to Work and School!
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Over 300 schools across Michigan are
taking part in activities this month!
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here
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May Clean Commute News
- Cathleen Edgerly, CATA
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Ride of Silence
2008
-Tim Potter
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Wed.
May, 21st
- Join cyclists worldwide in a silent slow-paced ride (max. 12 mph/20 kph)
in honor of those who have been injured or killed while cycling on public
roadways.
Click here to learn more
about the Ride of Silence mission. Gather at the MSU Bikes Service Center
starting at 6:30 pm and we'll roll off at 7 pm sharp. We'll again have the
assistance of some of our local bike police escourting us for the ride to
help with security and safe passage thru intersections along the route.
Click here for our planned
route for the ride of approx. 8 miles (note the map opens up to the
finish; zoom out and follow the route marking to the start at MSU). If
you'd like to log more miles then you can ride some laps around the
Capitol. Here's a link to a
flyer & a
poster to help us promote
this ride in your work place or other areas you can post. Here's a
map of other ROS rides around Michigan currently planned.
There’s also a Ride of Silence departing from Haslett for people living
closer to that location:
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Contact: |
Lenny Provencher <--Send
email |
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Distance: |
12 miles |
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Notes: |
Join with members of Tri-County Bicycle Assoc., for the Haslett
Ride of Silence. We will start from the Haslett Middle School. Please
arrive by 6:30. Helmets are required. |
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Land Use and Health Resource Team Update
-Janine Sinno
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Our next LUHRT meeting is scheduled for Tues.
May 20th, 2008 9 AM in ICHD in Clinton County, 1307 E. Townsend at the
Mid-Michigan District Health Department.
Agenda:
1. Introductions:
Two new members might be joining the group: Adrienne Domas, MSU Dept of
Geography and Andrea Stay, Eaton Conservation District
2. Great progress updates on the Green
Infrastructure project:
3. Power of We, organizing the environmental data
committee
4. Board of Health support for walkable
communities
5. Update on the land use planner position TCRPC
6. Update on HIA tools
April minutes
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Mobile Food Pantry: May 16
- Peggy Vaughn-Payne
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If you or someone you know must choose between buying food and filling
prescriptions, please tell them about this important community program....
click here
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Big Planting Day
- Katie Olender
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It’s
that time of the year again. At Riddle Elementary, our seedlings are
getting big and strong on the grow cart in the library, and our frost free
date is rapidly approaching.
We need
volunteers for our
Big Planting Day.
For those of you who haven’t participated in
Big Planting Day,
it’s where we rotate about 200 or more kids through the garden and plant
all our seeds and transplants over the course of six hours! It’s a busy,
fun, exhausting, dirty, rewarding day. We need volunteers from 9:30am
– 3:30pm, and the kids will break for about an hour around lunch time,
so we will have a break to eat and prepare for the afternoon classes.
Big Planting Day
will take place on Wednesday, May 21st with a rain date of
Tuesday, June 3rd. If you can help for some or all of the
day, we can use you – we need as many extra hands as we can get! If you
will be helping through the lunch hour than we can provide lunch.
Please
let me know if you’d like to help out. It’s a really fun time!
Katie Olender
Food Systems Project Coordinator
NorthWest Initiative
517-483-4499
katie@nwlansing.org
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Newsletter Deadline: Eastside Neighborhood
Organization
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Nancy Parsons Mahlow
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I have attached
the forms for the upcoming ENO newspaper. I know we have a huge amount of
things going on within this city/eastside for the next four months, so
let's get it printed for others to read and attend.
click
here
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Spring Housing Fair May 17
- Lynne Martinez
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Jobs
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Gardening and Gleaning Supervisor
We are currently hiring a Gardening and Gleaning Supervisor to join our
team at The Garden Project of The Greater Lansing Food Bank. The position
is physically demanding and requires someone with knowledge of working
with equipment and gardening. You will find more about the duties in the
attached job description The position description is also available via
the following link on our website --the position closes May 26, 2008.
http://lansingfoodbank.org/wp-content/GardeningandGleaningSupervisorjobdescription.pdf
Public Health Consultant
Attached is a Public Health Consultant Position posting to assist the
Michigan Department of Community Health in their Building Healthy
Communities Program. Please share with anyone you may know who may be
interested in this great opportunity.
http://www.mphi.org/files/PHC%20Groups.pdf
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Related
Topics
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Communities Talk about Health Impact Assessments
- Janine Sinno
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Thursday May 29, 2008 3:30-4:30pm - Communities
Talk about Completing their
Health Impact Assessments.
Please contact Nausheen Saeed
nsaeed@naccho.org
if you'd like to participate in this exciting discussion.
While Ingham and LUHRT had originally planned to
host this conference call, a conflict with the Building Health Communities
Conference requires that you arrange to participate on your own.
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Indoor Air Quality Resource
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http://eetd.lbl.gov/ied/sfrb/
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US Green Building Council May Newsletter
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Thos interested in healthy, green building might be interested in this
newsletter from around the corner in G.R....
here
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More
Fast Food, Less Fresh Food Nearby Linked to Rising Diabetes, Obesity Risk
- from Janine Sinno
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http://www.policylink.org/?msource=CHIS
The balance of healthy-vs.-unhealthy food options near your home has a
major impact on your health risk, according to a new report released this
week by
PolicyLink, UCLA's
Center for Health Policy Research, and the
California Center for Public Health Advocacy.
The report,
Designed for Disease: The Link Between Local Food Environments and Obesity
and Diabetes,
shows clearly that you are at a higher risk for obesity and
diabetes if fast food and convenience stores dramatically outnumber
grocery stores and produce markets in your neighborhood.
The groundbreaking
study examined the correlation between the health of nearly 40,000
Californians and the mix of retail food outlets near their homes. Your
"food landscape" has a significant impact on your health.
In the study,
researchers matched the prevalence of obesity and diabetes from the 2005
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) to nearly 40,000 respondents'
Retail Food Environment Index (RFEI) scores. The RFEI is the number of
fast-food and convenience stores divided by the number of grocery and
produce stores around one's home. In California, the average RFEI is about
4.5 – meaning for every healthy food outlet near the average Californians
home, there are 4.5 unhealthy ones.
The higher a person's
RFEI, the higher their risk of obesity and diabetes. Adults who live in
"high RFEI" areas (RFEI > 5) are 18 percent more likely to be obese and 24
percent more likely to have diabetes than their counterparts living in
"low RFEI" areas (RFEI < 3).
"Clearly, the obesity
crisis in California can no longer be seen only as a fight over personal
choices," said Victor Rubin, the vice president of research at PolicyLink
and a co-author of the study. "Public policies drive the universe of food
options from which we can choose. Families who live in communities with
choices limited to high-calorie foods and beverages face substantially
greater health risks. Policymakers at the state and local level can save
lives by giving Californians healthier food options."
The study offers
several policy proposals that could help make a dramatic difference in how
our food environment impacts our health:
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Increase access to healthy foods by providing incentives for retail
store development and improvement.
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Promote retail innovations, including smaller-scale markets selling
healthy foods.
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Maximize the opportunities presented by the changes in the WIC food
package.
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Implement zoning designed to limit fast-food restaurants in overburdened
communities.
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Require menu labeling.
In addition to Dr.
Rubin, other PolicyLink staff who worked on the study include Rebecca
Flournoy, associate director, Sarah Treuhaft, senior associate, and Rajni
Banthia, program associate.
The study received
significant media attention, garnering stories across a broad swath of
newspapers and radio and television stations in California and beyond. For
a sampling of the media coverage, visit
PolicyLink in the News.
Download the full report
here [PDF].
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Nursery Rhyme of the Week
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The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they'll ease
Your will they'll mend
And charge you not a shilling.
~Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990
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Community Calendar
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calendar
Condensed summary of listings below
(click link above for full listings)
In about 15 minutes, you can create a calendar like the
one below (from any computer) or add to this one! Click
here or call LeRoy at
517-505-2809.
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May 17: Spring Housing Fair
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Jul 26 Westside Summer Fest
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