[GreenNotes] GreenNotes - 4/13/2007

Fri Apr 13 07:55:13 PDT 2007

Please circulate widely. Contact us to include your announcement in 
GreenNotes.

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PROGRESSIVE EVENT CALENDAR

* Apr 13 - Creating a 21st Century College Town Symposium

* Apr 14 - Creating a 21st Century College Town Symposium

* Apr 14 - Bagfest. IUSB, noon to 4 PM.

* Apr 18 - St. Joseph County Election Board Meeting. 10 AM, 4th fl., 
Co.-City Bldg.

* MPJC peace vigil - Every Monday and Saturday

* GreenTV every Wednesday evening, 10 PM, Comcast channel 99.

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PAINT THE TOWN COALITION NEEDS SUPPORTERS AT SYMPOSIUM

Dear Bicycle Supporters:

Paint the Town is advocating for the stripping of bicycle lanes on Notre 
Dame Avenue and on Howard Street/Northshore Blvd. from Eddy St. to 
Angela.  The lane on Howard Street would deadend at Eddy, leading into 
ND's new development.  

The city has encouraged ND to make it bicycle friendly.  We need bicycle 
advocates to attend this symposium and raise the question of whether 
they intend to include bicycle lanes, to hook up with the city lanes.  

If anyone can attend even a part of this event, especially Saturday when 
the representative from the Kite Realty Group speaks, the developer, 
that would be great.  

Thanks,

Judith Robert

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April 11, 2007

ND event to cover college-town projects

Tribune Staff Report

SOUTH BEND -- Just south of the University of Notre Dame along Eddy 
Street, a "college town" of housing, retail, restaurants, offices and 
green space will be created during the next few years.

It will be called Eddy Street Commons. Such college-town developments, a 
lure for both campus and community residents, are becoming increasingly 
popular across the country.

"Creating a 21st Century College Town" is the title of a symposium 
Friday and Saturday at Notre Dame. All events are free and open to the 
public. All the talks will be in Room 104 Bond Hall on campus.

At 4:30 p.m. Friday, Dhiru Thadani, a principal with Ayers/Saint/Gross 
Architects and Planners based in Washington, D.C., will provide an 
overview of trends in planning college towns across the country. 
Ayres/Saint/Gross is the firm that worked with Notre Dame to create its 
current campus master plan. A reception will follow.

The conference will continue Saturday with presentations and discussions 
from 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4:30 p.m. A variety of architects, 
planners and professors will be among the speakers. A representative of 
Kite Realty Group, the Indianapolis-based developer of the 
retail-residential project planned for south of Notre Dame, will speak 
in the Saturday afternoon session.

For a complete schedule and list of speakers, see the Web site: 
http://architecture.nd.edu/news_and_events/symposium_college_towns.shtml.

The symposium is hosted by Notre Dame's School of Architecture and the 
Northern Indiana Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

Public parking is available in Lot D6, just off Dorr Road.

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CAFO BILL PASSES BOTH HOUSES - NEEDS YOUR HELP

Senate Bill 431 (aka CAFO Bill) has passed both houses and will likely 
be further revised in a conference committee between the House and 
Senate.  If the Senate and House conferees cannot reach agreement, the 
bill may still die.  

The bill contains a controversial 1 mile setback from schools, a good 
character provision, and fees to support better enforcement.  

The bill is mostly helpful, but section 27 subsection (c) is very 
troubling.  It limits the ability of counties to impose moratoriums or 
operational requirements such as soil incorporation or bio-filters.  
SUBSECTION (c) SHOULD BE REMOVED.  Section 27 Subsection (d) should 
REQUIRE LOCAL APPROVAL before IDEM can issue an approval or an NPDES 
permit.  You can view the entire bill at 
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/ES/ES0431.2.html

Hoosier Environmental Council
Indiana's Voice for Clean Air, Safe Water and Wild Places!

Rae Schnapp, Ph.D.
Wabash Riverkeeper
Hoosier Environmental Council
1915 W. 18th St. Indianapolis, IN 46202
ph  317-685-8800
fx  317-686-4794

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BAGFEST

Bring your plastic shopping bags to Bagfest and recycle them. Noon to 4 
PM Saturday. Keynote speaker is Elizabeth Royte, author of "Garbage 
Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash."

- Noon to 4 PM, bag pile up, Administration Building cafeteria.
- 1 PM, panel discussion in Rm. 225, Student Activities Center.
- 3 PM, keynote speech, Rm. 225, Student Activities Center.
- Parking adjacent to the Administration Building.

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ST. JOSEPH COUNTY ELECTION BOARD MEETING

Although write-in votes for the 2006 Secretary of State race were 
tallied in St. Joseph County, the votes were never attributed to a 
specific candidate. In other words, if you voted for Bill Stant for 
Secretary of State, you were disenfranchised by the St. Jo. Co. Election 
Board. Your vote didn't count. Worse still, there were other declared 
write-in candidates for other offices whose votes were never attributed 
to them. Greens can prove that 480 voters in St. Joseph County were 
disenfranchised. In addition, Sen. John Broden (D) says only 7 of 77 
provisional ballots were counted in St. Joseph County.

The St. Joe Valley Greens are pressing the St. Joseph County Election 
Board and the Indiana Election Division to acknowledge that citizens 
were disenfranchised in this and other counties, to find out how this 
happened and to ensure it never happens again.

If you are interested in grassroots democracy in Indiana, please join 
the Greens at the Election Board Meeting on Wednesday, April 18, 10 AM, 
4th Floor, County-City Building, downtown.

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KEY VALUES OF THE GREENS

1. Ecological wisdom
2. Social justice
3. Grassroots democracy
4. Nonviolence
5. Decentralization
6. Community-based economics
7. Feminism
8. Respect for diversity
9. Personal and global responsibility
10. Future focus

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St. Joe Valley Greens, South Bend, IN
http://www.sjvgreens.org/
mailto: tbrown at sjvgreens.org or khardy at sjvgreens.org