• Build grassroots support to end taxpayer subsidies that breed suburban sprawl.
• Work to create a Smart Growth Commission a state leadership group that will show how ingenious planning and the right tax incentives can stop sprawl.
• Put teeth into key environmental laws to protect land and water from unbridled development.
  
  

• Organize statewide support for transportation options that respect land, people, and pocketbooks.
• Convince the Michigan Department of Transportation to heed conservation goals and citizens' opinions from the moment a new project is conceived.
• Develop alternatives to $2 billion worth of unneeded new highways in Petoskey, Traverse City, Alpena, Cadillac, and Grand Haven.

* A partnership with the Environmental Law and Policy Center in Chicago

• Make the watersheds of the Jordan and Pigeon rivers off-limits to oil and gas exploration.
• Support legislation to stop drillers from damaging land and watersheds.
• Bring new lawmakers up to speed on the coalition's reform goals.
• Keep the conservation voice strong across the state.

* An alliance of 30 local governments and organizations.

• Stir up public discourse about which monkey is really on our backs: Government regulation or private speculation?
• Expose Michigan's "Right to Farm" law as corporate agriculture's right to pollute.
• Build support for the Natural River Act.
• Tell the story of laws, such as the Michigan Drain Code, that allow developers to harm public resources at taxpayer expense.
  
  

• Write a plan with the National Park Service that protects historic homes, schoolhouses, and barns in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
• Build grassroots momentum by holding "barn re-raising parties" and getting the word out.
• Seek private and public money to pay for nails, boards, and carpenters.