The Next Meeting of the Kalamazoo Environmental Council

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

The next meeting of the Kalamazoo Environmental Council

will be held 7:00 pm, Thursday, April 23, 2009

At the Arcus Depot, 402 East Michigan Avenue

AGENDA

6:50 Materials available for review

7:00 Call to Order

*Introductions *Review and revision of agenda

*Review and Approval of Minutes *Financial Report

7:10 Announcements / Informational Items

u  Saturday, April 18, - 9am -5 pm – Earth Day activities at the Kalamazoo Nature Center. Free Admission Day! www.naturecenter.org.

u  Monday, April 20, - 7 pm - "Healing the Earth’s Wounds: Practicing Nonviolence Towards Nature" Rooms 158-159 at the Bernhard Center, WMU. Panelists will be Sister Virginia Jones, Philip Micklin and Tom Small. Panel moderator will be Ron Kramer.

u  Wednesday, April 22 - Celebrate Earth Day 2009. For Michigan activities, check out the West Michigan Environmental Action Council’s Earth Week Map at http://wmeac.org/ or visit www.earthday.netfor information about activities around the globe.

u  Monday, April 27 - 7pm - Parkview Hills Club House - Asylum Lake Preservation Association annual meeting with a presentation by Ray Adams " The Birds of Asylum Lake: Past, Present and Future"

u  Tuesday, April 28, 5:30 - 7 pm - Kalamazoo Green Drinks meets at Charlie Foster's 211 East Water St. - For more information on "Green Drinks", please visit www.greendrinks.org click on USA and then Kalamazoo.

u  Thursday, April 30, - 5:30pm - at the Cobblestone Farm in Ann Arbor, the Michigan Environmental Council's 11th Annual Environmental Awards Celebration. This year we are honoring Lana Pollack with the Helen & William Milliken Distinguished Service Award, and Calvin “Rusty” Gates, Jr. with the Petoskey Prize for Grassroots Environmental Leadership. please RSVP at your earliest convenience to Brianna at 517-487-9539 or .

7:20 Meeting Reports

u  Kalamazoo Environmental Concerns Committee (Nesius)

u  Kalamazoo County Environmental Health Advisory Council

u  Earth Day Events in Kalamazoo

7:40 Action Items

u  Consideration of a new statement on Outdoor Wood Boilers in Kalamazoo County (Miller)

8:20 Old Business

u  Kalamazoo River Clean Up

u  Transfer of Wetlands to the Army Corp of Engineers from the DEQ

8:40 New Business

u  Discussion about the Society for Protecting Environmental Assets and its appeal of the DEQ discharge permit for the proposed dairy farm in the Leonidas area.

u  The "Odor in Kalamazoo"