Calendar Gets Even Better
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Warren Armstrong, developer of the new community
calendar is working with a web designer to make it even easier to create
and merge calendars. If you'd like to know more, visit:
http://syndicateus.net If
you'd like an orientation, call me at 505-2809 or send me an e-mail and I
can either help you, or hook you up with Warren.
Visit the
"Healthy & Green" Calendar
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2008 PAC Tool Now Available
- Sarah Panken
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The 2008 Promoting Active Communities (PAC) online
assessment has been launched at
www.mihealthtools.org/communities.
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Skip the Healthy Snacks: Fill the Easter Baskets
with Sugar!
- I.E. Chuggar
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Children are very tired of parental efforts to get them to eat healthy,
nutritious snacks. Sweeten up! Now there's conclusive evidence
that large quantities of processed, bleached, imported,
genetically-modified white sugar is darn good for you.
Read more...
Also, read about the important role that trans fats play in preserving
our bodies after we die. Click here...
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Healthy Children - Healthy Planet Reading Circle at
Everybody Reads
- Deb Bailey
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Healthy Children - Healthy Planet is a seven-session course addressing
how the pervasive effects of advertising, media, and our consumer culture
can influence a child's view of the world. For info
click here
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Local Opportunities to Overcome Nature-Deficit Disorder
Kathleen Lavey, Lansing State Journal
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Interesting article featuring Kit Rich and the Harris Nature Center.
click here
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Enjoy Hunter Park
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- Come join us for a Seed
Starting Workshop at the Hunter Park GardenHouse on March 29th
from 2:00-3:00 pm. For more information K’Anna at
kannab@allenneighborhoodcenter.org.
- Please join the Allen
Neighborhood Center staff and friends every Friday at noon to walk the
beautiful Hunter Park Path and get in shape for spring. Meet us at
the Greenhouse!
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How Green is your... ?
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Lawn? (from George Wood)
A non-profit organization dedicated to promoting natural lawn care and
grounds maintenance.
www.safelawns.org
Bike Ride?
An educational and witty on-line survey...http://www.sierraclub.org/howgreen/bikeride/
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Michael Pollan: Don't Eat Anything That Doesn't Rot
- Amy Goodman
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The food expert explains how consumers
are getting duped by the food industry -- and paying the price with their
health.
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/76987/
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A Most Convenient Truth
- Project for Public Spaces
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The unexpected, amazing revival of the bicycle:
click here
An early version of the bike introduced in Paris in 1817
Factoid: Louis Chevrolet, co-founder of Chevrolet Motor Co.,
was originally a bicycle maker in France.
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Senior Journal
- Larry Johnson
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Larry discovered this site and suggests taking a look:
http://www.SeniorJournal.com
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Site of the Week
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Oprah Winfrey and Eckhart Tolle launch a ten week on-line class...
The aim is to explore the most important question you can ask: What
is the purpose of my life and how do I fulfill that purpose? It will
be a course in self-exploration and awakening. It will help you see what
the dysfunctional patterns are within yourself that create unnecessary
conflict and suffering and prevent you from finding true fulfillment.
More at:
http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/webcast/begin/eckharttolle_invitation.jsp
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Calendar
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New Calendar!
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calendar
Learn to add events to this calendar (from any computer that's hooked
to the web).
Better yet... create
your own calendar!
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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
Year-Round Gardening in a Greenhouse
- Joan Nelson
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Come visit the Hunter Park
GardenHouse to learn about year round gardening in a greenhouse March 15th from
1:00-4:00 pm in the GardenHouse located on E. Kalamazoo St. For more
information contact K’Anna at
kannab@allenneighborhoodcenter.org
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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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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 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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