Healthy Community Update  #167
   July 21, 2008

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From the South - Kathie Dunbar

Hunters Ridge Hearing Tonight (Monday - July 21) The Lansing Parks Department is about to submit a grant application to the DNR Trust Fund to purchase 28.5 acres of woodland habitat with shoreline on Grand River, and the Council has to approve the application....  more... Summary of Benjamin Davis Park Meetings Mark Your Calendar... August 23:  12-4pm Southside Community Showcase at Benjamin Davis Park Exhibitor and Sponsor Invitation

From the East - Joan Nelson

Saturday in the Park:    10am - 4pm   more here Join this Important Eastside Conversation  7/31 Eastside Neighborhood Organization and Allen Neighborhood Center invite you to join us for a conversation about East Kalamazoo Street on Thursday, July 31 at Foster Community Center, Room 213, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.   More here

From the Downtown Lansing - Janine Sinno

Share Your Lansing City Market Perspectives: A plan to relocate Lansing City Market is in the making.  Here are a few perspectives...click here     What do you think?

From the NorthWest - Peggy Vaughn-Payne, Katie Olender and Jessica Yorko

Diversity Mural Reception:  July 22  click here Westside Summer Fest:     2pm - 9pm, July 26  more here (including a new poster) Back to the Garden:    The Rodale Institute has reflections and pictures from Katie on their website!   www.rodaleinstitute.org/20080711/kf1   Quality Dairy Goes Local The Pine and Saginaw Street Quality Dairy has received some locally grown, organic produce including: Yellow Summer Squash Green Beans Blueberries (they were SO good last week!!!) Lettuce Cabbage Beets, with the greens attached Red potatoes They will likely share some of the produce with the Cedar and Saginaw store, and some of it with the Jolly and Dunkel store if you wish to visit those locations.  Those stores probably won’t receive it until Thursday sometime. Please support QD’s efforts to bring healthy, quality fruits and vegetables to our food desert neighborhood by purchasing some of the produce!

From the Region

Clean Commute News - Cathleen Edgerly July Clean Commute News  Click here Clean Commute Challenge Planning Sponsors, ideas, and suggestions are welcome for the Clean Commute Challenge in September.  Read more New Issue of Footprints -Terry Link a new campus outdoor sculpture career opportunities in sustainability MSU new Water Quality Report new sustainable Farmer website a blog on how we choose to feed ourselves  Click here 2008 Choices Conference - Diane Drago This big conference in Dearborn will feature lots of food (for thought and for eating) and people from our region, so don't miss it!  Click here for brochure    Registration Reminder

Find Good Fresh Food Fast

While this is have been mentioned in several updates... it's worth seeing again...  (latest clip from MSU Land Policy Institute) Want to buy produce directly from a farmer in Michigan? Want to locate a farmers' market near you? Below are two groups focused on connecting people with local food:   LocalHarvest is a website dedicated to finding the best organic food grown closest to you. Check out the Community Supported Agriculture (And Other Farm Subscriptions) initiative where many farms offer produce subscriptions. Subscription buyers who make a financial commitment to a farm receive a weekly or monthly basket of produce, flowers, fruits, eggs, milk, coffee or other farm products.   The Michigan Organic Food and Farm Alliance (MOFFA), a nonprofit organization working to create more public awareness about the nature of industrialized food supply and its environmental and social hazards, teaches 'eaters' to value and choose organically grown food produced in their own locales. MOFFA welcomes new members to join and get involved in creating a better food system for Michigan. Members include organic and other farmers, food coops, educators, environmentalists, food businesses, food and farm activists and concerned citizens throughout Michigan and elsewhere. Download the 2008 Eating Organically Guide to find organic and local farms in Michigan and related businesses.

New Grant Opportunities -Laurie Brown

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Humanities Happenings -Joan Nelson & Eileen Roraback

If this newsletter is any evidence, the humanities are alive and well.... click here

Quote of the Week - Tom Atlee and Martin Luther King

"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." - Martin Luther King Jr. And an amazing website suggested by Tom... click here

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