Your Community Spirit 2010-04-09

Happenings include holidays; International Coffee Hour; Japanese theme at Rice and Spice; progressive films at Kleinau; Farmer’s Market; Vigil for Peace; Church Women United’s Hunger Sale; Gaia House Interfaith Center’s Spring Groundkeeping Party; Habitat for Humanity; Shawnee National Forest workday; Giant City Sings of Spring; John Muir returns to speak of the forest. News includes Hedonic Treadmill; Avoiding Mass Extinction Engine; plastic bag use plummets; renewable energy expands; Starbucks rejects recycling; Obama rejects mountaintop removal.