Sign the Petition- online
Bloomington residents please sign the online petition to urge your city council to sign the US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. There is no time to wait. Also please tell your friends.
http://northstar.sierraclub.org/campaigns/air/coolCities.html
Click the link on right sidepanel or paste the above link into your browser.
Link may not be fully operational until Friday March 16, 2007.
posted by Greenman @ Wednesday, March 14, 2007
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1 Comments:
Wow, I'm really glad Suzanne Kienietz wrote a letter to the editor in the Bloomington MN Sun paper (published today, March 22, 2007). I had no idea there was such an organization in Bloomington.
I'm on a mission to get an Intergenerational Recreational Center in Bloomington. This fits into our environmentally-conscious mindsets. See below. Anyone else interested? Please contact me at amy@MamaResource.com
At minimum, a recreational space will have/be
- A room for scheduled and spontaneous activities and classes, plus a quiet space
- A larger space for socializing, spontaneous play, hanging out
- Intergenerational: age infant through senior citizen
- Open to the public, walk-ins and loitering encouraged
Additional features:
- Open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
- Gym with climbing & throwing things (foam cubes, mats & balls), plus floor hockey, etc.; also for community dances
- Basketball/volleyball court
- Billiard/Game Room with pool tables, ping pong tables, foosball
- Lounge with couches & tables (for playing cards/board games/puzzles,
socializing)
- Arts & crafts room; with art supplies & creative volunteers
- Courtyard (car-free zone): green/grassy space for community gardening, picnicking, playing, sledding; plus a playground
- Stage (for concerts, speakers, playing)
- Café
- Community kitchen
Benefits of recreational center:
- Encourages sense of community
- Allows all generations to enjoy and learn from one another
- Promotes creative, spontaneous work and play among all the generations
- Fosters well-being via sense of belonging and contributing to all generations
- Creates free space during the _daytime_ hours (seniors, preschoolers, homeschoolers, night-shift workers, teens in the afternoons)
- Provides free space during the _evening_ (all ages--including school students, day-time workers, and families)
- Saves money and resources--All-in-one facility:
* Minimizes need to drive often and far to participate in community and activities of interest; thus, minimizing carbon dioxide emissions and gasoline use
* Minimizes maintenance, utility use, fossil fuels, carbon dioxide emissions, staff, supplies, etc. that several facilities would require
PASS IT ON!
Amy Roff
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