Below are upcoming events, projects, groups and opportunities related to Environmental Justice in Ingham County and Michigan. Attached is an updated ICHD Environmental Justice Fact Sheet. To schedule a presentation/discussion/listening session on Environmental Justice with your organization or group, please email me at
jyo...@ingham.org or
517-272-4144.
Upcoming ICHD Environmental Justice Discussions & Listening Sessions
--- 9/28 Allen Neighborhood Center Senior Coffee Group
--- 10/20-10/21 Our Greenation Summit
--- 11/7 Mid-MEAC First Friday Land Use Lunch
Current EJ-Related Projects in Ingham County
--- Including Our Neighbors: Making Community Gardens & Other Community Activities Inclusive of People with Disabilities
--- Housing Justice: Exploring housing regulations, tenants' rights, landlord responsibilities and tenants' associations
Special Volunteer Thank You
To Christine Ton Nu, who volunteered at ICHD over the summer and entered more than 700 Hot Weather & Health surveys into the survey database so we can analyze the findings. Thank you Christine!!!
Upcoming EJ-Related Events & EJ-Related Group Meetings
--- MID-MICHIGAN FOOD SYSTEM MONTHLY MEETINGS - SEPT 21 & Oct 19
5:00 (eating), 5:30 -7 (meeting), MSU Extension Conference Room at 5303 South Cedar. More info,
be...@msu.edu
--- MID-MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COUNCIL FALL VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES - SEPT 20-Oct 16 Events & Ongoing Projects:
Like to volunteer? Care about the environment? Check out Mid-MEAC's Fall Volunteer Opportunities! http://p0.vresp.com/EGa2dA
--- DELTA TOWNSHIP NON-MOTORIZED TRANSPORTATION PLAN AND MASTER PLAN PUBLIC INPUT - SEPT 27 & OCT 6 The public input meeting for the Non-Motorized Transportation Plan will be held in Room A at the Township Administration Building, 7710 West Saginaw Highway, Lansing, Michigan at 7:00 PM on September 27, 2011. The public input session for the Parks and Recreation Master Plan will be held in Room A at the Township Administration Building, at 7:00 PM on October 6. (Notice is hereby given that the Township will be holding public input sessions for the update to the 2005 Non-Motorized Transportation Plan and the 2006 Parks and Recreation Master Plan.) For those who are unable to attend, there will be additional opportunities for public comment at a later date and an electronic opinion survey will be made available immediately following the meeting at www.deltami.gov. Comment or questions can be directed to the Parks and Recreation Department at 517-323-8555 or pa...@deltami.com.
--- UPCOMING MID-MICHIGAN ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION COALITION MEETINGS - SEPT 27 & OCT 11
9/27: Monthly meeting, Michigan Energy Options, 405 Grove St., EL: 6-7:30 pm
10/11: Monthly meeting (time and location to be determined)
More info at: bikelansing.org/mmatc
--- NOT ONE MORE LIFE - ASTHMA PREVENTION/CARE EVENT - OCT 15
9am-1pm at Church in the City 319 W. Genesee, Lansing MI.
--- HEALTH EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE WORKSHOPS Oct. 6, 7, 20, 21 and Nov. 14, 15/ Dec. 5, 6.
This project is part of a national effort to improve community health through the concepts of social justice and health equity. In the course of the four-day workshop (an initial two-day session followed by a second two-day session a few weeks later), you will engage in learning and dialogue with members of the public health work force and others who have an interest in improving community health through social justice. The sessions will deal with such topics as: cultural identity and multicultural self-awareness; perspectives on oppression and privilege; the historical role that public health has played in promoting social change, and how all of these things affect our efforts to improve the health of our community. Each workshop will include up to 10 participants who are not part of the public health work force. Anyone with an interest in learning about health equity and social justice is invited to apply. Enrollment is free, and contingent upon acceptance and a commitment by the applicant to attend all of the days of the workshop for which they are accepted. The sessions will include data and other information related to health equity and social justice; however, these will largely be used as triggers for dialogue. All participants will be encouraged to share their experience and feelings as authentically as they can, in a non-judgmental, facilitated, cooperative learning environment. More info: dbl...@ingham.org and 517-887-4305.
--- POWER OF WE CONSORTIUM AD-HOC TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE - NOV 7 1pm - MSU Extension Conference Room, 5303 South Cedar. powerofwe.org/who-we-are/ad-hoc-committees/ More info: Peggy Roberts. prob...@ingham.org 517-887-4691.
--- LANSING'S NON-MOTORIZED TRANSPORTATION PLAN UNVEILING - NOV 10 The Lansing Complete Streets Ordinance was adopted by the Lansing City Council on August 19, 2009 after volunteers collected more than 5,000 signatures from Lansing registered voters to place the measure on the ballot. (More than 5% of registered voters.) The main requirements of the ordinance are that the City of Lansing have a non-motorized transportation plan and that the City of Lansing consider the needs of all roadway users, of all ages, abilities, and modes, when building or rebuilding a roadway (including sidewalks, bike lanes, curb cuts, transit needs). At this special event, City of Lansing officials will present the city-wide plan and provide updates on projects noted in the plan that they are already implementing. SAVE THE DATE - time and location to be announced!
for two days of powerful conversation and action planning for both youth and adults. Thursday’s Greenation session at Black Child & Family Institute for adults is from 8am-5pm and includes a special youth forum and luncheon from 12-2pm. On Friday, the adult fun continues, including
a combined session for the Power of We Consortium meeting on Building Resilient Communities. Friday’s Got Health? Concert & Expo at Foster Community Center from 8am-2pm is a hands-on, body-moving, brain-working, speak-out event created by teens in the Lansing area just for teens! The Peace & Prosperity Youth Action Movement will present a series of issues using video, music, dance, spoken word and rap to get teens involved in changing their community! The event features performances by Mizz Reality, P2daHI/PHILTHY, and presentation by MSU Basketball’s Coach Garland! Students will be able to register starting 9.26 in the office at their school or on-line at www.oneloveglobal.org. This is a FREE event featuring great food, great conversation and the greatest of all, Collective Action! Space is limited so register by 10/3 for a chance to win a movie gift card!
Other Local & Statewide Groups & Projects to Check Out:
Healthy Kids, Healthy Michigan Coalition - healthykidshealthymichigan.com
Michigan Alliance for Lead Safe Housing – mileadsafehomes.org
Michigan Climate and Health Project - michigan.gov/climateandhealth
Michigan Network for Children’s Environmental - mnceh.org
Michigan Disability Rights Coalition – copower.org
Michigan Environmental Council – environmentalcouncil.org
Michigan Energy Options – michiganenergyoptions.org
Jessica Yorko
Environmental Justice Coordinator
Ingham County Health Department
5303 South Cedar Street
P.O. Box 30161
Lansing, MI 48909-7661
Environmental justice is equitable access to environmental benefits and protections across different race, income and other forms of difference.
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Environmental justice is the right to a safe, healthy, productive, and sustainable environment, where "environment" is considered in its totality to include the ecological, physical, social, political, aesthetic, and economic environment. Environmental justice addresses the disproportionate environmental risks borne by low-income communities and communities of color resulting from poor housing stock, poor nutrition, lack of access to healthcare, unemployment, underemployment, and employment in the most hazardous jobs. - National Association of County and City Health Officials |
