Jim Dulzo wraps up the Senators’ Energy Summer School lessons with specific ways you can take action!
GROUNDWORK News
More Veggies for Kalkaska Memorial
Kalkaska Memorial’s Building Healthy Communities grant helped the hospital renovate their food service production and allowed them to create an “innovation station” that serves made to order entrees, two new Grab-n-Go coolers and an updated salad bar.
Holland Energy Plan Scores Its First Big Win
Sparked by its pioneering Community Energy Plan, this old Lake Michigan port town is bustling with new activity as it works to become one of North America’s most clean-energy-savvy cities.
Ag Forum: Local farms, the key to healthy communities
Local farms also offer health benefits to our community, because they allow people to “make healthy food choices” -a favorite adage among health professionals, served up as an elusive magic bullet cure to obesity and chronic disease. But that good advice isn’t always realistic when so many people in our region and state can’t afford those healthy choices.
Senators’ Clean Energy Summer School: Lesson No. 6
First, I have to apologize to the entire class. It wasn’t me, it was Principal Peter who canceled the last two sessions—because our air conditioning broke down. All I gotta say is, back when I went to school, we didn’t even have air conditioning. But let’s try to...
Groundwork Action Alert: Expand Local Food In Schools
This week our friends at the Michigan Department of Education did a momentous thing: They’ve asked 166 school districts to apply for funds to buy locally grown fruits and vegetables for our kids’ tummies-and for their brains and their health.