Locals Go Green
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Healthy Livable Communities
- Paul Hamilton
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The Designing Healthy Livable Communities
Conference brochure is now available. Please post on your web
sites, distribute and register!
Click here
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Award for Rain
Gardens
- Town Courier
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Our Drain Commissioner has showered rain gardens throughout this
neighborhood -- and now the light is shining on his efforts....Click here
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Trail Finder
- Nancy Krupiarz
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It is my pleasure to announce at long last our new Michigan
Trails Finder! It is being brought to you as a product of the
Connecting Michigan Project. This is a new digital online resource for
both single and shared-use trails, linked with information for
planning your next trail adventure. It includes: Length, Surface, Allowed Trail Uses, Interactive Links to Individual Trail Websites,
GPS coordinates (where available), and contact information.
This is only a start. We hope that you will
offer us your input as you review it and use it.
http://www.michigantrails.org/map/
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Evaluating Trail Success
- Christi Downing
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Click here
for a link to a study of trail evaluation options.
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Secret Video Triggers Largest Beef Recall
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Cattle industry and animal rights groups bickered over the treatment of
beef destined for U.S. Dinner plates a day after secret video triggered
the nation's largest meat recall...
click here
Warning: This may video may motivate you to eat a little
lower on -- and local in -- the food chain.
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The Neighborhood Food Environment and Childhood
Nutrition
- Joan Nelson
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This study Identifies key studies on the availability of, and residents'
access to, healthy foods and how they influence the choices of low-income
children and their families and discusses efforts to bring about
improvements and new research and policy priorities. Click:
The Links Between the Neighborhood Food Environment and Childhood
Nutrition
or go directly to
http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/foodenvironment.pdf
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Calendar
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Feb 25 Canvas: A
film to raise awareness about mental illness
- Melany Mack
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CMH-CEI and
NAMI of Lansing will feature the movie "Canvas"
on February 25th at the Hannah Community Center
Auditorium. Times and details are on the attached flyer. A story of a
family whose wife/mother has Schizophrenia, the film is based on a true
story. A short panel discussion will follow the film.
Click here.
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Feb 25 Brown Bag with Bicyclist Nate Kerr
- Tim Potter bikes@msu.edu
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Nate Kerr of the
Midtown Greenway Coalition in Minneapolis will be in Lansing on the 25
for an informal chat. Read more
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Feb 26 Breast Health Luncheon
- Joan Nelson
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Allen Neighborhood Center's annual Breast Health Luncheon,
scheduled for
Tuesday, February 26, 11:30 am - 1 pm. This lively, fun and
informative event will feature Dr. Margaret Aguwa as our guest speaker.
Dr. Aguwa, MSU Professor of Family and Community Medicine, an osteopathic
physician, and expert on breast cancer is known for her tireless efforts
to empower, advocate for, and serve minority and non-traditional groups.
Click here
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Feb 27
Farmers Market Flag-Making
- Joan Nelson
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Wednesday,
February 27, 6-8 pm
Are you
experiencing a bad case of the Midwinter Blues, yearning for the Allen
Street Farmer's Market?
If you answered
yes to any of these questions, come on over to the Allen Neighborhood
Center! We'll be making banners and flags to help promote our Farmer's
Market for its next season, and we need your help! Not
interested in banners? Come over and help us cook! Or, you can just
swing by and enjoy one of our feature food films!
* Note: If you
have a sewing machine you would like to bring to this event, please
contact Market Manager Hollie at 517-999-3911.
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Feb 29 - March 8 ANR Week
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click here
From "Farmers Market Boot Camp" to "Beekeeping"
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Mar 1
Sustainable Landscaping
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Sustainable Landscaping: a dialogue
with Bill Schneider,
Wildtype Native Plants, Design
and Seeds, Ltd. from 10am-noon at Urban Options
Click
here for details
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Mar 1 Michigan
Organic Music Festival
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The MI Organic
Music Festival will be held at
(SCENE) Metrospace (110 Charles St. East Lansing) with performances by
Indie-Folk Singer Songwriter Chris
Dorman, and The Harmonious Folk duo
Laura Bates and Brandon Foote plus special guests all
night ! Showtime 8pm Doors open at 7pm Cost : $5 for advanced tickets
!! $7 at the door. Tickets available at:
Elderly Instruments (1100 N. Washington in Old town) and
EVERYbody Reads (2019 E Michigan Ave next to Gone wired Cafe) or
online at
www.chrisdormanmusic.com/tickets.htm (LeRoy has some
tickets too)
About M.O.F.F.A
(Michigan Organic Farm and Food Alliance)
Founded to promote the development of food systems that rely on
organic methods of food production and that revitalize and sustain local
communities.
About Earthwork Music
The Earthwork Music collective believes in the
intrinsic and historical power of music to raise both community and
self-awareness and serves to facilitate and encourage original music in
the state of Michigan and beyond.
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Mar 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.
Click here for more info.
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Mar 6 Mental Health Awareness Event
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The Community Mental Health Authority of
Clinton-Eaton-Ingham Counties Annual Report Meeting will host a
"Community Education Event" on March 6th at the Lansing Center. Joseph
Greco, the writer and Film Director of the movie "Canvas" will be the
keynote speaker. Joe is an inspirational speaker; details for the event
are attached here.
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Mar 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 11
Landscaping with Native Plants Class
-Kit Rich
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If you want to make
your gardening easier, try adding native plants which thrive in Michigan
and will attract birds and butterflies to the garden. Learn how to design
and maintain a native garden at the Harris Nature Center, 3998 Van Atta
Road on Tuesday March 11 at 7:00 pm. The class will be taught by Vern
Stephens of Designs by Nature. The price of the class is $10. Please call
(517) 349-3866 or email
harriscenter@sbcglobal.net to have a registration form sent to you.
For general information about this and other
programs offered at the Harris Nature Center, call Kit Rich at (517)
349-3866.
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Mar 15-16 Maple Syrup Festival
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Click here
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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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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”
click here
PDF Flier
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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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