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According to child advocate Richard Louv, disconnection from nature is potentially harmful to a child's physical, emotional and spiritual development. In his book, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, Louv argues that the current alienation of children from nature is not only harmful to children but may lead to a future with no environmental leaders.

To read EMEAC's complete review, download Target Earth Fall 2006.

Also featured in this issue:

• Mining in Michigan
• Climate Change event hosted by St. Michaels's Church
• Detroit Bioneers
• Proposal 2 and the environment

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Water rights were the theme of a recent series of events sponsored by southeast Michigan environmental and social justice groups. EMEAC opened the series during its May 9th annual meeting with a screening of the movie, Thirst and the trailer for the upcoming film Water Warriors documenting the Highland Park’s water crisis.

To read more about the Celebrating Water for Life event series download here.

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THIRST!  In the opening scene of the documentary Thirst, John Briscoe, the Senior Water Advisor to The World Bank, asks: “What does it mean to say that water is a human right?” The consensus of the politicians, international bankers and corporate executives at the 2003 World Water Forum in Kyoto, Japan is that global corporations should control fresh water systems.

To read more about Thirst and other Spring 2006 Target Earth articles download here.

Also featured in this issue:

• Earth Democracy
• "Samrt Growth": Myths and Contraversies

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Water Policy Update: Who owns the Great Lakes?  The proposed sale in 1998 of 156 million gallons of Lake Superior water to Asia caused a public outcry for action to protect Great Lakes waters from large, out-of-basin transports. Aggressive bottling and sale of water by the Nestle Corporation and others for private profit now threaten the rights of Michigan citizens to decide how its public trust waters are to be used. Michigan has failed, to date, to enact legislation either to adequately regulate in basin withdrawals of Great Lakes waters or to prevent out of basin transfers. Without such regulations, the state is unable to fully utilize existing treaties, regional compacts and federal law to protect the lakes. Legislation to increase protection for the lakes is currently before the Michigan legislature. EMEAC and its “Great Lakes, Great Michigan” partners are demanding that our elected leaders take action to prevent Great Lakes waters from being treated as a commodity for sale and transported out of the basin.

To read the full Policy Update and other articles from Winter 2006 Target Earth download here.

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• 2006 Annual Report


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• 2004 Annual Report