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Show your support for an Ohio green jobs initiative. Organized by the Blue-Green Alliance (Sierra Club and the United Steelworkers). Invited speakers include Gov. Ted Strickland and

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United Steelworkers, the Blue Green Alliance and their partners are pressing for investments in good green jobs in renewable industries - jobs that will fight global warming, and end America's harmful dependence on fossil fuels

We Can Solve It Town Hall

Featured Speakers:

• Dave Caldwell, United Steelworkers
• Eric Schreiber, Climat Project/We Campaign
• Pam Rosado, Policy Matters Ohio
• Marnie Urso, Audubon Ohio
• Teresa McHugh, Sierra Club

For more info or to get involved, contact Amber Miller: 419-576-0647, jamiller@verizon.net www.wecansolveit.org/steelworkers

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Join the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank in a forum that will explore a confluence of consumer finance issues, including subprime borrowing, unfair and deceptive lending practices, financial education, credit scores and their impact on the cost of credit, and reaching the unbanked. For more information, contact donna.brooks@clev.frb.org

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Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland two-day conference focuses on our region’s shift from a manufacturing economy to a knowledge-based one has left many of our cities grappling to find their economic niche. How can cities and regions take advantage of their physical, cultural, and economic assets to once again become sought-after places in which to invest, conduct business, visit, and live?

For updates or to register, go here.

More than 50 million people travel between Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati each year, mostly by car. This captive audience has inconvenient or expensive options to driving. Meanwhile, Ohio is in financial straits, and is looking for a way to stimulate its economy. Gov. Ted Strickland, seeing a connection between jobs, redeveloping Ohio’s cities and towns—and perhaps getting a handle on ODOT’s annual $3.8 billion budget on highways—approached Amtrak last week about a potential passenger rail line linking the state’s 3-C Corridor.

Ohio is the most populous state in the nation which does not yet have a service partnership with Amtrak. Its existing freight rail lines could be an untapped resource and passenger rail could be an engine for transit-oriented development. Advocates such as All Aboard Ohio see the ultimate goal of this effort is to encourage more economic growth in an energy efficient, environmentally friendly manner.

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Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland asked Amtrak to investigate the potential ridership and costs of starting up fast, convenient and modern passenger rail service in Ohio's busiest and most populous travel corridor, non-profit rail advocates All Aboard Ohio announced on March 7, 2008.

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Engage with young leaders in Northeast Ohio including Chris Ronayne and Jose Feliciano on the “State of your 10,000 Little (micro) ideas” and then help create a three-part strategic plan to keep moving the idea initiatives into action.

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Led by Dr. David Cooperrider and Dr. Ronald Fry, the co-creators of Appreciative Inquiry (AI), a proven approach to engaging multiple stakeholders to achieve rapid, dramatic and holistic transformation.

Learn how to incorporate sustainability into your core strategy using AI.

For more information and to register, call 216/368-2030

We all want to make Cleveland, in particular, and Northeastern Ohio, in general, a more livable, sustainable, healthy, and happy place for future generations to come. Who could be against this? What is needed (and what this and other worthwhile organizations have been working on bringing together) is a wholistic, systematic approach to how we are going to be able to do this. Before we can begin to work on this collaborative effort to making NEO a healthier, more enjoyable and more sustainable place, however, we have to take a realistic look at the challenges that are facing us.

Many are predicting, that the world is entering a period of change more drastic than anything that humanity has thus far encountered. The innerconnected and converging threats of climate change, peaking of world oil supply, water scarcity, increasing food prices and shortages, unconstrained population growth, and the general degredation of ecological systems as a whole are coming together in a perfert storm that is sure to bring challenging times to come. Some would say that is a euphimism. Author James Howard Kunstler has called this coming period of time "The Long Emergency."