Sustainable Clinton

Community Meeting

6/12/2011

A community meeting for Sustainable Clinton was held on Sunday, June 12^th at The Canticle, 843 Thirteenth Avenue North in Clinton.

Residents introduced themselves and stated their primary concerns regarding sustainability issues.

We discussed the results of a community survey in which we asked community members to give their feedback on the current state of environmental issues. 

Comments from the meeting's participants included:

-          Maintaining a local focus for the group's efforts

-          Investigating a Farm-to-School program in the community

-          Increasing the types of items that are accepted for recycling

-          Starting a community garden

-          Planting a natural prairie in the median area along Camanche Ave (the Liberty Square area)

-          Putting on workshops on topics such as sustainable farming, green construction, energy conservation, residential alternative energy, reducing your personal carbon footprint

-          Working to facilitate sustainable redevelopment and rehabbing of existing structures

-          Investigating urban poultry farming

A group was formed to further investigate the feasibility of a community garden.  They will meet separately and present their findings at our next meeting on Sunday, July 31^st from 2-3pm.

The group was encouraged to sign up for Stream Stomp --  a local waterways clean-up effort on July 9^th.  For more information, click HERE.

http://www.clintonfranciscans.com/Sustainable-Clinton.html