...we must design a system where...doing good is like falling off a log, where the natural, everyday acts of work and life accumulate into a better world as a matter of course, not a matter of conscious altruism.
Join Grant Thompson, Park Manager of the Avon Lake Reservation and member of the Western Reserve Land Conservancy, to learn about the Land Conservancy and how it helps landowners, farmers and others in Northeast Ohio to preserve land in perpetuity.
This is part of a series of Wednesday evening events focusing on environmental issues and actions hosted by Avon Lake Public Library and co-sponsored by the City Council Environmental Committee and the Environmental Affairs Advisory Board of Avon Lake.
Ohio Canal Corridor and the City of Cleveland lead this meeting to shape a conceptual future for Cleveland’s Cuyahoga Riverfront. The focus is on the Canal Basin District Plan. It’s a planning exercise that looks for “Connections” – trail, bikeway, public transit and pedestrian boardwalks that will interface and integrate with the developing Towpath Trail and its destination, Canal Basin Park.
Please RSVP to Marilyn @ Downtown Cleveland Alliance – 216-736-7799.
Cuyahoga County lead the state in urbanized area drilling permits with 72 last year. Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District will present the impact for communities in the Rocky River watershed. Topics to be discussed include:
General overview of oil and gas drilling regulations
Considerations for local governments and landowners
Role of your local Soil & Water Conservation District
Rocky River Watershed program updates
Please RSVP by January 25th to Jared Bartley (jbartley@cuyahogaswcd.org or 216-524-6580 x14).
Towpath Trail connection to the Metroparks Brookside Reservation along the Lower Big Creek.
Long term land use that welcomes recreation and commerce.
Creek restoration and reduced flooding.
Master plan and economic revitalization strategy for the Lower Big Creek Area between Brookside Park and Jennings Road combines information contained in past planning studies by NOACA and others. Floyd Browne Associates is the consultant and will be under contract to the Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation (OBCDC). Tom Collins, OBCDC Commercial Manager is Project Manager. Windows on the World - Reinberger Education Center, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, 3900 Wildlife Way (next to the main entrance), Cleveland, OH 44109
Experts will address: Strategic planning for farmland preservation, state and federal land conservation policy initiatives, and sustainable agriculture, tools and trends.
I would like to invite you to come and learn about the current happenings in the Rocky River Watershed! The next Rocky River Watershed Council public meeting will be held on Thursday, October 25th from 7pm-9pm in the Sycamore Room of the Cleveland Metroparks Park Operations/Ranger HQ Building, located at 4500 Valley Parkway in Fairview Park (in the Rocky River Reservation across from Big Met Golf Course).
Agenda items include a presentation about the Ohio Clean Marina Program (through which Cleveland Metroparks was recently certified) by Keith Kessler, a summary of the recent Rocky River Watershed Festival, and the January 2008 RRWC Board of Trustees elections.
Bioneers Conference brings visionaries to Cleveland Submitted by Leslie Kleinman, Bioneers Cleveland
If you are passionate about restoring the health and vitality of the living world, you truly must make plans to attend all or part of this outstanding event. For the past 18 years, Bioneers — or biological pioneers — has brought together key innovators throughout North America who are changing the story of the planet from fear and destruction to hope and restoration.
Register today to participate in this three-day whirlwind of national and local workshops, beamed to Cleveland for the first time and focused on changing the way we solve our most pressing problems. The national presentations will be downlinked via satellite from 1- 5:30 p.m. each day with local workshops and tours presented in the mornings.
The conference will open Friday, October 19, when Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Andrew Watterson, the city's sustainability program manager, will address the conference. David Cooperrider, Case Western Reserve University's nationally recognized expert on business sustainability, will give the keynote address on "Designing a Toolkit for Building a Better World: Business, Peace, Community, and the Environment."
Other topics include: No Child Left Inside; Seeds the Creator Gave Us; Earth Rights; Creating Green Affordable Housing; People, Planet and Profit; Heathy Worker/Healthy Business; Local Living Economies; Birthing a New Politic; Food Activism; The Biomimicry Revolution: Imitating How Nature Does it; Green the Ghetto; Your Local Food Shed; Education for a Sustainable World; and Race, Power and Restorative Justice.
For more local information and the full conference program, go here. Or see the national conference site here.
The West Creek Preservation Committee would like to extend an invitation to review our revised trail alignment plan at one of two West Creen Greenway Trail Public Meetings.
How Introduced Plants are Changing Ohio’s Landscape Wednesday, January 2, 2008, 5 to 8 pm
Join Dr. Cathi Lehn, Conservation Program Coordinator for The Biodiversity Alliance, for a conversation about the impact of non-native species on our local habitats.
