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Midtown will be warm and bright for the 45th annual Noel Night celebration. At the Detroit Historical Museum, visitors will have the chance to meet and take pictures with Santa and Mrs. Claus, enjoy musical entertainment and a free activity area for children.More
America’s Thanksgiving Parade at the Detroit Historical Museum – Tickets Now Available to the Public! Detroit Historical Museum Thursday, November 23 | 8 am – 12 pm
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Savor America’s Thanksgiving Day Parade® at the Detroit Historical Museum! Reserve a front-row seat as the parade begins right in front of the museum, at Woodward and Kirby.More
Detroit 67 Third Thursday Speaker Series The Algiers Motel Murders Dossin Great Lakes Museum Thursday, November 16 | 6 – 8 pm
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Please note venue change! Our popular Third Thursdayspeaker series continues this month at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum. More
Edmund Fitzgerald Special Event Station by LARC Dossin Great Lakes Museum Sunday, November 12 | 10 am – 3:30 pm
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On the 2nd Saturday in November each year, the Livonia Amateur Radio Club operates Special Event Station W8F commemorating the sinking of the “Mighty Fitz“.More
Valerie Brader to Give Opening Remarks at 11/9 MI Energy
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Please join us on November 9 in East Lansing from 5:00 to 9:00 pm at the 5th Annual Michigan Energy Innovators Gala as we celebrate Michigan’s advanced energy industry and recognize businesses and individuals for their outstanding contributions.
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October Green Task Force Minutes
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Zero Waste Subcommittee Update (beginning of the update missed – incomplete notes)
New developments in the city: discussion on the importance of new developments being configured to accommodate recycling. Should new buildings be required to have bins/systems to hold recycling and for haulers to easily pick it up? Detroit Environmental Agenda was worked on this idea a little bit, so the subject has been broached but it thus far hasn’t been explicitly focused on. Looking forward, perhaps the committee/Green Task Force and work with developers and the city to develop an ordinance on this.
Banning plastic bags and/or polystyrene takeout containers: Discussion on banning these items in the city. However, there is legislation the prohibits the implementation of a ban on plastic bags. But perhaps the language allows room for a tax or other mechanism to recede use without a ban? Need to look into this more closely. Example that Chicago had a terrible time with a plastic bag ban, but had success with a tax. The policy protecting plastic bags in Detroit also protects polystyrene from a ban as well. However, several of the newest restaurants, especially in midtown, are using alternatives, so we can look more into alternatives and how we can make them more attractive to other businesses.
Renewable Energy Subcommittee Update
Meetings are on the 2nd Thursday of the month at Socra Tea in Midtown. Current focus on solar, especially community solar. Also taking a look at bio-digesters
Background: this is a relatively young/new subcommittee. It was born from the Blue-Green Infrastructure subcommittee when they realized that energy wasn’t/couldn’t be focused on thoroughly enough when they had one group to cover so many topics.
Mission: to increase awareness, dissemination of information, and outreach around renewable energy, provide policy suggestions, and be the 3rd party steward of the city ensuring that the best interest is upheld.
The Challenge: the difficulty is that there isn’t any cookie-cutter policy to ramp up renewable energy implementation in cities. Another is the need to bring soft costs down. Biggest barrier in Detroit specifically is that there isn’t any ordinance to handle the permitting and process of installing solar. Setting simple system of requirements would streamline the process to make it easy for residents.
Strategy: adoption of more solar friendly policy in Detroit. Increase the amount of renewable energy installed in Detroit.
Goals:
– Identify organizations to share information with
– Identify organizations who reach different audiences to illustrate relevance of renewable energy to the community members they serve.
– Create solar powered warming/cooling centers.
– Challenge city council to be champions within their districts – challenge business to improve their own sustainability.
– Help establish solar friendly solar policy in Detroit.
– Before 2020 get into the megawatts of solar.
Blue Green Infrastructure Subcommittee Update: representative not present…
Composting Subcommittee Update
Have meetings on the first thursday of the month, rotating evenings and morning.
Mission: Instigate and cultivate mindsets, will, conditions, and civic engagement, that lead to ever increasing diversion of Detroit produced compostable organic materials from landfills or incinerators. Also to ensure that we have some place to divert it too. On all scales, from large business to households.
Strategy and goals:
– Support legislators and leaders in the communities in informing, influencing and supporting the development of sustainable city-wide decentralized organics recycling (composting) ecosystems and infrastructure. Looking to harness leverage and for natural affinities.
– Shared vision and goals: Align national, state, city and community policy levels. Include composting in Detroit Environmental Agenda.
– Regulatory conditions: Align local legislation (zoning and conditions) with state legislation.
– Two Systems processes: City-level (piggy-back on recycling in municipal buildings and public spaces) and community/neighborhood level (closed loop food system).
– Leadership: Grow leadership and stewardship coalition through boundary spanning and networking (internalize societal, business, government, academic knoweldge/research on the topic).
– Build capacity and competency through action based learning and collaborative work.
– Culture, behavior and practice change: Public education and engagement (designed conversations). Establish management strategy and plans. Establish reflective monitoring and feedforward/feedback methods.
Discussion on how to inform and support market development (supply, demand) for compost products. We need to make sure there is a place to use/send composting products! Let demand help drive this change. How do we do this?
Ideas for Resources: Us Compost Council
SUMMIT DIALOGUE AIMED AT FOSTERING UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN RESIDENTS AND DEVELOPERS
A blue ribbon panel of developers and community leaders will discuss how to promote inclusive neighborhood development at the 8th annual ARISE Detroit! Neighborhoods Rising Summit on Saturday, November 4 at the downtown campus of Wayne County Community College District (WCCCD), 1001 W. Fort Street, Detroit 48226.
The summit’s purpose is to equip residents with strategies to improve their neighborhoods. The event is free and takes place from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. A continental breakfast and lunch will be served. Registration for the summit is still open at www.arisedetroit.org.
Fugitive Dust Ordinance
Detroiters experience severe negative health impacts from air pollution, due in large part to the close proximity of the places Detroiters live and play to heavy industry and transportation corridors. Every year, Detroit’s air pollution leads to 690 deaths, thousands of hospital visits, and other health impacts at an estimated yearly cost of $6.9 billion dollars.[1] In addition, Detroit children experience asthma at a rate three times the state average. These health impacts disproportionately fall on poor and minority community members.
Joint Statement from Secretary Ross and Minister Prabhu on the U.S.-India Commercial Dialogue
On October 27, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Minister of Commerce and Industry Suresh Prabhu met to discuss the U.S.-India commercial relationship and launch their first session of the U.S.-India Commercial Dialogue. Upon noting the impressive three-fold increase in total U.S.-India trade since 2005, both sides affirmed the significant strategic and economic importance of the U.S.-India relationship in promoting joint economic growth, job creation, and prosperity. While highlighting many areas of progress, both principals also noted the need to lower barriers and committed to make meaningful progress to unlock new trade and investment opportunities for U.S. and Indian businesses.
U.S. Department of Commerce Issues Affirmative Preliminary Antidumping Duty Determination on Aluminum Foil from the People’s Republic of China
Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the affirmative preliminary determination in this antidumping duty (AD) investigation, finding that exporters of aluminum foil from the People’s Republic of China (China) sold their product at prices that resulted in preliminary dumping margins of 96.81 percent to 162.24 percent to be applied, based on factual evidence provided by the interested parties using the Department’s standard non-market economy dumping methodology.
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America’s Thanksgiving Parade at the Detroit Historical Museum – Tickets Now Available to the Public! Detroit Historical Museum Thursday, November 23 | 8 am – 12 pm
Savor America’s Thanksgiving Day Parade® at the Detroit Historical Museum! Reserve a front-row seat as the parade begins right in front of the museum, at Woodward and Kirby.More
Detroit 67 Third Thursday Speaker Series The Algiers Motel Murders Dossin Great Lakes Museum Thursday, November 16 | 6 – 8 pm
Please note venue change! Our popular Third Thursdayspeaker series continues this month at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum. More
Edmund Fitzgerald Special Event Station by LARC Dossin Great Lakes Museum Sunday, November 12 | 10 am – 3:30 pm
Valerie Brader to Give Opening Remarks at 11/9 MI Energy
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October Green Task Force Minutes
Zero Waste Subcommittee Update (beginning of the update missed – incomplete notes)
New developments in the city: discussion on the importance of new developments being configured to accommodate recycling. Should new buildings be required to have bins/systems to hold recycling and for haulers to easily pick it up? Detroit Environmental Agenda was worked on this idea a little bit, so the subject has been broached but it thus far hasn’t been explicitly focused on. Looking forward, perhaps the committee/Green Task Force and work with developers and the city to develop an ordinance on this.
Banning plastic bags and/or polystyrene takeout containers: Discussion on banning these items in the city. However, there is legislation the prohibits the implementation of a ban on plastic bags. But perhaps the language allows room for a tax or other mechanism to recede use without a ban? Need to look into this more closely. Example that Chicago had a terrible time with a plastic bag ban, but had success with a tax. The policy protecting plastic bags in Detroit also protects polystyrene from a ban as well. However, several of the newest restaurants, especially in midtown, are using alternatives, so we can look more into alternatives and how we can make them more attractive to other businesses.
Renewable Energy Subcommittee Update
Meetings are on the 2nd Thursday of the month at Socra Tea in Midtown. Current focus on solar, especially community solar. Also taking a look at bio-digesters
Background: this is a relatively young/new subcommittee. It was born from the Blue-Green Infrastructure subcommittee when they realized that energy wasn’t/couldn’t be focused on thoroughly enough when they had one group to cover so many topics.
Mission: to increase awareness, dissemination of information, and outreach around renewable energy, provide policy suggestions, and be the 3rd party steward of the city ensuring that the best interest is upheld.
The Challenge: the difficulty is that there isn’t any cookie-cutter policy to ramp up renewable energy implementation in cities. Another is the need to bring soft costs down. Biggest barrier in Detroit specifically is that there isn’t any ordinance to handle the permitting and process of installing solar. Setting simple system of requirements would streamline the process to make it easy for residents.
Strategy: adoption of more solar friendly policy in Detroit. Increase the amount of renewable energy installed in Detroit.
Goals:
– Identify organizations to share information with
– Identify organizations who reach different audiences to illustrate relevance of renewable energy to the community members they serve.
– Create solar powered warming/cooling centers.
– Challenge city council to be champions within their districts – challenge business to improve their own sustainability.
– Help establish solar friendly solar policy in Detroit.
– Before 2020 get into the megawatts of solar.
Blue Green Infrastructure Subcommittee Update: representative not present…
Composting Subcommittee Update
Have meetings on the first thursday of the month, rotating evenings and morning.
Mission: Instigate and cultivate mindsets, will, conditions, and civic engagement, that lead to ever increasing diversion of Detroit produced compostable organic materials from landfills or incinerators. Also to ensure that we have some place to divert it too. On all scales, from large business to households.
Strategy and goals:
– Support legislators and leaders in the communities in informing, influencing and supporting the development of sustainable city-wide decentralized organics recycling (composting) ecosystems and infrastructure. Looking to harness leverage and for natural affinities.
– Shared vision and goals: Align national, state, city and community policy levels. Include composting in Detroit Environmental Agenda.
– Regulatory conditions: Align local legislation (zoning and conditions) with state legislation.
– Two Systems processes: City-level (piggy-back on recycling in municipal buildings and public spaces) and community/neighborhood level (closed loop food system).
– Leadership: Grow leadership and stewardship coalition through boundary spanning and networking (internalize societal, business, government, academic knoweldge/research on the topic).
– Build capacity and competency through action based learning and collaborative work.
– Culture, behavior and practice change: Public education and engagement (designed conversations). Establish management strategy and plans. Establish reflective monitoring and feedforward/feedback methods.
Discussion on how to inform and support market development (supply, demand) for compost products. We need to make sure there is a place to use/send composting products! Let demand help drive this change. How do we do this?
Ideas for Resources: Us Compost Council
SUMMIT DIALOGUE AIMED AT FOSTERING UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN RESIDENTS AND DEVELOPERS
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Fugitive Dust Ordinance
Detroiters experience severe negative health impacts from air pollution, due in large part to the close proximity of the places Detroiters live and play to heavy industry and transportation corridors. Every year, Detroit’s air pollution leads to 690 deaths, thousands of hospital visits, and other health impacts at an estimated yearly cost of $6.9 billion dollars.[1] In addition, Detroit children experience asthma at a rate three times the state average. These health impacts disproportionately fall on poor and minority community members.
Joint Statement from Secretary Ross and Minister Prabhu on the U.S.-India Commercial Dialogue
On October 27, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Minister of Commerce and Industry Suresh Prabhu met to discuss the U.S.-India commercial relationship and launch their first session of the U.S.-India Commercial Dialogue. Upon noting the impressive three-fold increase in total U.S.-India trade since 2005, both sides affirmed the significant strategic and economic importance of the U.S.-India relationship in promoting joint economic growth, job creation, and prosperity. While highlighting many areas of progress, both principals also noted the need to lower barriers and committed to make meaningful progress to unlock new trade and investment opportunities for U.S. and Indian businesses.
U.S. Department of Commerce Issues Affirmative Preliminary Antidumping Duty Determination on Aluminum Foil from the People’s Republic of China
Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the affirmative preliminary determination in this antidumping duty (AD) investigation, finding that exporters of aluminum foil from the People’s Republic of China (China) sold their product at prices that resulted in preliminary dumping margins of 96.81 percent to 162.24 percent to be applied, based on factual evidence provided by the interested parties using the Department’s standard non-market economy dumping methodology.
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