Healthy Community News:  February 4, 2008

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Greater Lansing Go Green! Initiative
- Taylor Heins


Discover new ways to Go Green... click here


Photos Requested!
- Emily Marshall


Emily Marshall from the Greenway Collaborative is helping develop a Bike Map for our region.  She is looking for

"photographs of trails in the region as well as significant landscape shots that show the general character of what it is like to bike through the region"

 Please contact Emily at emilymarshall@greenwaycollab.com and cc leroy@leroyharvey.net


Eastside Featured in Capital Gains
- Joan Nelson


Check out the Eastside Lansing Visiting Guide

Also check out our guides to opening a business and moving to the Eastside.
(and more)


Localvore Breakfast Saturday


Enjoy a breakfast of locally grown food on 2/9 from 9am - noon at Gone Wired Cafe, 2021 E. Michigan Ave. in Lansing.  $6 adult / $4 child benefits the Women's Center of Greater Lansing.

Volunteers needed to help serve, bus, etc.  Free breakfast if you help!  Email Jane at jebush@earthlink.net if you want to help.

Serving:**

  • Pork Sausage (AppleSchram Orchards)
  • Buckwheat Pancakes (Westwind Milling)
  • Eggs (Grazing Fields)
  • Cider (Northern Organics)
  • Milk (Mooville Milk)
     

** all available at the Lansing City Market!

Where else can I buy locally-grown food?


WRAP
- Martha Knorek and Janine Sinno


Do you know any individuals, businesses, schools, government agencies, organizations or agencies in Ingham, Eaton or Clinton County that do such a phenomenal job of minimizing the amount of waste they generate through reduce, reuse and recycling that they should be publicly acknowledged?  If your answer is yes, you can nominate them for a WRAP award (actually, they can nominate themselves as well)!

The Waste Reduction Awards Program or WRAP, was established in 2003 by regional recycling professionals in an effort to recognize those that go above and beyond the casual waste reduction and recycling efforts.  The winners receive a recycled glass award etched with their name and are honored at a luncheon in April at the Cadillac Club.

Have someone in mind?  All of the information you need, including past winners,  can be found at:  www.clinton-county.org/waste/WasteReductionAwardsProgram.htm

 Hurry, the application deadline is Friday, March 7, 2008!

Flier here

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Winter Biking, Classes and News
- Tim Potter  bikes@msu.edu

 

Passing along a few winter bike related items to cheer you winter-cycling folks and to encourage others who’ve been tempted to try.   Don’t miss the additional bike maintenance classes and other bike news at the bottom...

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Healthy Community Coalition Gathering


All are welcome to attend a healthy community coalition gathering on 2/13 at Gone Wired Cafe.  More details below.   If you plan on attending, please take this survey.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=v_2ftETSXGxXJc7Gv4eUUzeg_3d_3d


Why Choose Local Food?


According to www.lansingarealocalvores.org there are several reasons:

  • For the economy—When you support local farmers, more of your money stays in the community.
     

  • For the environment—Typically, food on the average Michigan plate has traveled 1,500 miles! After transportation, food choices have the biggest impact on the environment and energy use.
     

  • For your health—You can feel safer about your food when it comes from local sources.  You can even go check it out and see if it measures up to your standards.


Green Your Office

Here are some resources from the US Green Building Council

Calendar


Ongoing...

 

Other Calendars


February 5  Green Jobs: Sustaining Employment and Environment in the 21st Century


Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union. Mr. Gerard will be speaking about “Green Jobs: Sustaining Employment and Environment in the 21st Century”. Please join us at 7:00 PM in 107 South Kedzie Hall.

Upcoming speakers in the series include:

  • March 18, 2008 Dr. Jeffrey Nielsen 
    “Building Democratic Communities: Education for Political Literacy”
  • April 1, 2008 Dr. Eban Goodstein
    “How Today’s 20 Year Olds Will Become the Greatest Generation and Save the Planet”
  • April 15, 2008 Carolyn Raffensperger
    “Guardianship for Future Generations: Legal and Policy Frameworks”

All events are free and open to the public. To learn more about this series, go to UN Speaker Series.

 


February 8  Land Use Luncheon (rescheduled from 2/1)


Jeff Padden, President, Public Policy Associates discusses 
“Successful Strategies -- Revitalizing Michigan’s Central Cities”

click here              PDF Flier


February 9  Localvore Breakfast


More here


February 11  Building Prosperity & Growing Michigan


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Learn more about this conference at MSU on smart growth  Click here


February 11  (2nd Monday)


Bike Ped Chat:  Join us for an informal chat about biking, walking, and your visions for the area.  The next conversation will be at 6pm at El Azteco (1016 West Saginaw).

Click here for a summary of January's conversation


February 13  Healthy Community Coalition Gathering


Join us on Wednesday, Feb 13 from 11:30am - 1pm at Gone Wired Cafe for lunch, updates on healthy community initiatives, and conversation about topics of your choice!

If you plan on attending, please take this brief survey.  Click here.


March 6  Green Infrastructure Planning


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.   More details coming soon.

Read more about Green Infrastructure here.


March 7  Land Use Luncheon Series


Eric Schertzing, Ingham County Treasurer explores  “The Ingham County Land Bank—A Tool for Re-building Cities”

click here              PDF Flier


Mar 18  Sustainable Speaker Series Continues


Click here


Mar 18  CADL  Sustainable Living Exhibition


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


Mar 19  CADL  Sustainable Living Exhibition


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


April 1  How Today’s 20 Year Olds Will Become the Greatest Generation and Save the Planet


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/


April 4  Land Use Luncheon Series


Dr. John Biernbaum, MSU Professor of Plant and Soil Science  talks about “The Return to Locally Grown, Healthy Food”  

click here              PDF Flier


April 12  Body, Mind, Spirit Wellness Expo (rescheduled from 2/23)
- Nancy Brandon nanbran48823@yahoo.com


click here


April 15  Guardianship for Future Generations: Legal and Policy Frameworks”


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/


May  29-30  Save the Dates
-Paul Hamilton


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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