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Draft of Environmental Justice Plan now available to view in Spanish.  Click to read the Executive Directive and the Pilot Alternative Agreement Process. Please feel free to make comments between March 5th and April 9, 2010

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas - shopping for toys a  Consumer Guide to Toxic Toys

December 8th - 19th  World Leaders Gathering in Copenhagen, Denmark for Climate Change

Wed. Oct. 21, 2009 Environmental Candidate Forum

A coalition of environmental organizations sponsored an environmental candidate forum. Joann Watson, Fred Hall, David Cross, Ken Cockrel, Jr., and Mohamed Okdie were present. Over 60 residents were in attendance to hear the candidates' views on environmental issues in the city. 

See their responses here. (disclaimer:  the responses in the spreadsheet are not completely verbatim, and may contain errors.)

DWEJ in Detroit News: Belle Isle water pollution levels cause concern

Channel 4 Local News interview with Executive Director Donele Wilkins: Water at Belle Isle Beach Being Tested

Events

Upcoming speaking engagements/panels:

SCDG Capitol Hill Summit - October 15th and 16th 2009

April 14 Growing with a Green Economy Forum - National Science Foundation & Southeast Michigan Sustainable Business Forum

NSF International World Headquarters
789 N. Dixboro Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Map and Directions

March 30 Growing Green Livelihoods: "The Impacts of 'Free Trade' and the Promise of a New Green Economy.

Monday, March 30, 2009 - 6:30pm
IBEW Local 58 Union Hall
1358 Abbott Street
Detroit, MI  48226 

Free & Open to Public; food provided

 Earlier...

March 18 Exec. Director Donele Wilkins presents on panel in Washington, DC, at Congressional Hearing on "Greening the Rust Belt"

AEHR to Brief Congress on Innovations in Environmental & Health Policy *
/A Congressional Briefing Sponsored by U.S. Representative Donna Edwards 
(D-MD) /

When: Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 12noon

Where: Rayburn House Office Building - Room 2253, Washington, DC

The growing interest in moving our country towards a green economy is an 
important opportunity for Congress to not only work on legislation that 
supports sustainable technologies and job creation, but to also 
re-examine the effectiveness of the environmental regulatory system. *A 
critical question for the 111th Congress is whether a green economy can 
be achieved with the current environmental regulatory system. *

The briefing will provide an analysis of human rights-based innovations 
in environmental and health laws and policies that are emerging in other 
countries and helping to spur a green economy. Legal experts and 
community leaders will discuss how these innovations point to steps that 
Congress can take to ensure environmental protection for all people, 
remedy disproportionate pollution burdens harming people of color and 
the poor, and stimulate a green economy.

Speakers will include:
... Monique Harden and Nathalie Walker, Co-Directors and Attorneys of 
Advocates for Environmental Human Rights
... David Prince, Boardmember of Mossville Environmental Action Now
... Roger Kim, Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network
... Donele Wilkins, Executive Director of Detroiters Working for 
Environmental Justice

March 2 Green Jobs Training Program classes begin

December 16 Build Up Detroit Advisory Council kicks off 

November 20, 2008

"Developing a Sustainable Southeast Michigan"

9:30 to 12 noon at NextEnergy, 461 Burroughs, Detroit.  Directions at http://www.nextenergy.org/ about/location.aspx.

NextEnergy and Sustainable Research Group host as a panel of public and private economic growth agencies offer perspectives on local economic challenges and opportunities and review their current areas of focus.  Open discussion period will follow.

Panel:

• Mark Beyer, NextEnergy (moderator)
• Donele Wilkins, Executive Director, Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice (DWEJ)
• John Austin, Director of the New Economy Initiative, Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan
• Olga Savic Stella, Vice President of Business Development, Detroit Economic Growth Corporation
• Katharine Czarnecki, Michigan Economic Development Corporation. 
  
  

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