April 25, 2008EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge: Tribal students take a stand against gang graffiti; clean up Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin reservation
Menominee tribal school students remove gang graffiti, pick up litter; College students collect 23 pounds of pills; dozens of computers in Earth Week projects connected to the EPA Great Lakes Earth Day Challenge
The College of Menominee Nation e-waste and pharmaceutical collection pulled in 23 pounds of pills, and dozens of computers, related equipment and cell phones. Pictured, above left to right, are Heidi Cartwright, a part-time police officer in the town of Manawa and a police science instructor at the college, who guarded the drugs; College of Menominee Nation event co-organizer and student Cheyenne Caldwell; her daughter, Jazzmin Caldwell, 7 years old, first grade student at Keshena public schools; and Diana Wolf, MITW Solid Waste/Recycling Coordinator. (Photo courtesy tribal college professor William Van Lopik, Ph.D., who teaches the Implementing Sustainable Development classes) (Keshena, WI) - Faculty and students brought their old computers, cell phones and medicines to an e-waste and pharmaceutical collection site at the tribal college in Keshena, Wisconsin to help a federal Earth Day challenge to clean up the Great Lakes Basin, while younger students have been cleaning up the reservation and whitewashing gang graffiti. At the College of Menominee Nation, the e-waste and medicine collections went without a hitch as people turned in hundreds of items on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at the campus commons. Over 23 pounds of medicines were turned in including about 100 bottles of pills, more than 25 computers and dozens of related components like hard drives, printers, keyboards and speakers. American Indian households are dropped off televisions, radios, DVD players, 12 cell phones and over 100 small batteries used to power the electronics.
Pictured, above left to right, is Jazzmin Caldwell, 7 years old, first grade student at Keshena public schools; and her mother, College of Menominee Nation event co-organizer and student Cheyenne Caldwell, who are showing computers and other e-waste gather as part of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge. Tuesday’s six-hour collection is among numerous Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin projects that are part of the United States Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge that runs through the end of April. MITW students says no to gangs, replace negative graffiti with positive Native American artwork
Gang graffiti was whitewashed from a wall at a skateboard park near the tribal school this week by K-8 students on the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin reservation who wanted to clean up the area in honor of Earth Day and replace the negative message with a positive Native American symbol.
"The younger students put their hands in paint and made flower hand prints on the wall," said teacher Beth Waukechon. "All week students have been cleaning up the reservation, and one student was so inspired she wants to start an Earth Club." On Friday, April 25, over 180 students continued cleaning up litter around the community of Neopit, one of four towns on the 234,000-acre reservation known for its thick forests and 24-miles of the pristine federally protected Wolf River.
"The students are giving thanks to Mother Earth for all that she had done," Waukechon said. "They are taking a moment each day to do that." "We know that she (Mother Earth) can shake us off at any moment," Waukechon said. "We are the ones that need her - she doesn’t need us." Another project, "Clean up the Rez Day" was held on Thursday, Aopril 24 based at the tribe’s Youth Development and Outreach program. The Menominee Teen Court Panel and other volunteers cleaned up litter and garbage, said Claudette Hewson, MITW Restorative Justice Coordinator. The litter was separated and when possible recycled through the MITW Solid Waste/Recycling Department. The panel is comprised of teens, ages 14 to 17, some of whom have been in minor scrapes with the law. The teen panel acts as a peer review for youthful offenders sentenced in tribal court who "need to learn healthy behaviors," Hewson said. On May 2, at-risk teens sentenced to probation and parole will paint over gang graffiti around the reservation. Sponsors of the ongoing project include the tribe’s Community Resource Center, Menominee County Police, Menominee Tribal Police, Tribal Clinic Wellness Program, Maehnowesekiyah, Probation and Parole, Community Recycling Project, Recreation Department, EarthHealing.org and the U.S. Post Office in Keshena. Tribal School students used April to learn about many aspects of the planet and the environment including the legendary sturgeon, that's much more than a fish to Menominee Indians. In many ways, the Menominee culture revolves around the sturgeon and satudents learn its value from a young age.
During Earth Week all classes at the MITW tribal school have been applying subjects like math, history and others to different aspects of the life cycle, biology and value of the sturgeon, an important fish to the Menominee tribe  The MITW students learned a wide range of facts including about sturgeon habitat, its cultural and historical value to their tribe, why it grows so big and lives longer than many fish
The college’s Implementing Sustainable Development classes, that sponsored e-waste and medicine collections, found out Tuesday during the project that they had won the National Recycling Coalition Bin Grant through Coca-Cola, said class professor William Van Lopik, Ph.D. "One of premises of the class is to do things, not just talk about what we are going to do and how the world is going to be changed, but having students do things," Dr. Van Lopik said. The college was among 75 colleges and universities, and the only tribal college, to receive the grant out of over 1,100 applicants, Van Lopik said. The grant pays for 50 recycling bins to be placed around the campus and other areas. The class has participated in the ten-week Recycle Mania project two years in a row that involves weighing recyclables as they leave the building. This year, the class ranked 136 out of 200 colleges and universities with 8 pounds of recyclables per person, beating out Ohio State and Georgetown, Van Lopik said. The MITW held a curbside pickup of electronics for members during Earth Week, April 21-24.
A couple thousand pounds of electronics was turned in at the MITW transfer station since April 1 and the total weigh of circuit boards to be recycled is expected to reach several tons.
"Garbage Monsters" give students a friendly environment scare
Native American students, their parents and others recently created "Garbage Monsters" out of bottles, paper and other items found in their trash in a project at the Keshena Public Schools, said Diana Wolf, MITW Solid Waste/Recycling Coordinator. After naming their monsters, the students gave a presentation on other uses for the garbage they used to make the creatures. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued the challenge to Great Lakes basin residents participating in over 100 projects in literally hundreds of communities that are collecting pharmaceuticals, electronics and household poisons. The EPA awarded grants to some of the projects. The MITW and interfaith groups are volunteering in the challenge to help the EPA reach its goal of one million pounds of e-waste and one million pills across the Great Lakes basin states of Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania. "We will do whatever it takes to do cradle to grave recycling," Wolf said, adding the tribe follows EPA guidelines. "We are not making a profit off of it but it is the right thing to do." With assistance from an EPA grant, the new non-profit Earth Healing Initiative (EHI) is offering a wide range of free services to the MITW and some of the cities to hold e-waste and pharmaceutical collections.
The EHI involves American Indian tribes and "a coalition and partnership of churches, synagogues and other faith traditions joining together and sharing their projects and resources to heal, protect and defend the environment," said EHI founder Rev. Jon Magnuson of Marquette, Michigan.
Trust between religions and Native American communities including participating in joint environment projects are vital to protect the future of the earth, said a Lutheran bishop, who has participated in numerous Earth Day recycling projects. "We are in an environmental crisis in many ways," said Lutheran Bishop Thomas A. Skrenes of the Northern Great Lakes Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). "The Great Lakes watershed is really a kind of a mother to all of us here in the populated areas of the upper Midwest." Interfaith and Native American participation in environment projects like the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge will help ensure a better future for all humans, Skrenes said. The Earth Healing Initiative volunteers are working with challenge project organizers in numerous cities including Milwaukee, Chicago, Duluth and the Greater Cleveland Area. Related Links:
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin Youth Development & Outreach http://www.menominee-nsn.gov/healthFamily/youthDevel/youthHome.php Youth Development and Outreach W3191 Fredenberg Drive P.O. Box 910 Keshena, WI 54135 715-799-5137 715-799-5227 (Fax) Director: Darwin Dick ---
Earth Healing Initiative Keshena, WI page: http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org/keshena.html Earth Healing Initiative: http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org --- Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin homepage College of Menominee Nation Earth Week Flyer - Call: Diana 715-799-5189 or Jeremy 715-799-5710 : http://www.menominee-nsn.gov/earthWeekFlyer.pdf --- Great Lakes Inter Tribal Council http://www.glitc.org/pages/mtw.html --- Samuels Recycling - Green Bay, WI: http://www.samuelsrec.com/mapmenu.htm Links to sites about Samuel's Recycling in Green Bay (Buyer Mike Zastrow - 1-920-494-3451) http://www.altermetalrecycling.com/Green_Bay_WI.jsp http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/markets/matcompany.asp?sortby=city http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/markets/comp_detail.asp?id=400 http://search.greenbaypressgazette.com/sp?aff=109&catId=19220500 More Garbage Monsters - from the hearts and hands of children - a message to adults about reuse of stuff we throw in the trash:
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EPA Regional Administrator Mary A. Gade at Chicago Earth Day celebration: EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge & Great Lakes wonder
At the Metcalfe Federal Building, the unwanted medicines collection continues under the supervision of two plainclothes Chicago police officers. (Photo courtesy EPA Flow of the River Blog) EPA Regional Administrator Mary A. Gade encourages public to participate in EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge; lauds the wonder of the Great Lakes and reminds audience how much progress has been made since Earth Day started nearly 40 years ago
Speaking during Earth Day 2008 ceremonies at Daley Plaza in Chicago on April 21, 2008 is Mary A. Gade, the EPA Region 5 Administrator and the Great Lakes National Program Manager. The Regional Administrator reports directly to the EPA Administrator in Washington, D.C. (Photo courtesy EPA Flow of the River Blog) (Chicago, Illinois) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Mary A. Gade celebrated Earth Day 2008 with crowds gathered at Daley Plaza in Chicago. The unwanted meds collection in the EPA building filled almost the whole barrel. Looking pleased (below) are Vicki Thomas (Great Lakes Program), Region 5 Administrator Mary Gade, and Great Lakes National Program Office Director Gary Gulezian. (Photo courtesy EPA Flow of the River Blog)
With grant money from US EPA, the City of Chicago has purchased pharmaceutical collection boxes (above) like this one. (Photo courtesy EPA Flow of the River Blog)
Photo by treehugger.com Gade noted how far the fight to protect the environment in America has come over the past 40 years - reminding Chicago residents there was a time when it was necessary to turn on their car headlights to navigate through steel mill pollution that hung thickly in the air on the south side of Lake Michigan.
Cuyahoga River fire: On June 22, 1969, industrial pollutants on the Cuyahoga River caught fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to environmental problems in Ohio and elsewhere in the United States. It was the latest in a series of fires on the river beginning in mid 1800s. Fires occurred on the Cuyahoga River in 1868, 1883, 1887, 1912, 1922, 1936, 1941, 1948, and in 1952. The 1952 fire caused over 1.5 million dollars in damage. Gade reminded those gathered of the times when American rivers caught fire from industrial pollution in big cities like the infamous blazes on the Cuyahoga River in Ohio.
The interfaith Earth Healing Initiative:
Illinois EPA website:
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April 11, 2008Earth Healing Initiative: Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin youth and adults join EPA Great Lakes Earth Day 2008 Challenge
Youth and adults at the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin holds three events for EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge Spread over 234,000 acres just south of Green Bay, the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin reservation is known for it's beauty By planning numerous Earth Day 2008 projects and other environment awareness campaigns, the tribe is preserving the dignity of its reservation.
Students and adults at the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin are joining forces for Earth Day 2008 and cleaning up the reservation, recycling electronics and properly disposing of old/unwanted medicines. These photos show the large 30-yard dumpsters filled with electronics at the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin solid waste transfer station in Keshena, WI. "Tribal members living on the reservation bring electronics and other stuff to the transfer station," said Diana Wolf, the MITW Solid Waste/Recycling Coordinator. "We compact cardboard and breakdown electronics at the transfer site." (Photos by Diana Wolf)
(Keshena, Wisconsin) - As the students of all ages plan a major hands-on clean up of a tribal community and the recycling of electronics and proper disposal of unwanted medications to honor Earth Day 2008, adult members of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin in Keshena, WI have already turned in several thousand pounds of electronic waste as part of a national Earth Day Project. The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin (MITW), located about 30 miles south of Green Bay, is collecting e-Waste all month including during the tribe's regular curbside bulk items Spring Cleaning collection on April 21-24 (Monday thru Thursday). "We are getting lots of electronics right now," said Diana Wolf, the MITW Solid Waste/Recycling Coordinator. Meanwhile - tribal grade and middle schoolers are planning an outdoor cleanup project for the last Friday in April, and the students at the tribal college have scheduled an April 22 collection of e-Waste and unwanted pharmaceuticals. The three projects are part of about 37 events planned across 8 states in hundreds of cities as part of the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The events are being promoted by the interfaith Earth Healing Initiative that teams numerous faith communities and American Indian tribes with local challenge organizers to be volunteers and participants in the projects spread across the Great Lakes basin. During the first week of April, the tribe’s drop-off sites collected several thousand pounds of electronics including 919 pounds of "low-grade circuit boards" that tribal employees remove from TV sets, stereos, high quality computers, cassette players and other electronics. Wolf estimated that about two tons (4,000 pounds) of electronics will be turned in by the end of the month. Wolf said that the 919 pounds of e-recyclables (circuit boards) represents about 100 individual TVs, computers or other electronics. The circuit boards and some other the electronics are turned over to Mike Zastrow, a buyer for Samuels Recycling in Green Bay. Plastics and wood from electronics collected by the tribe are recycled by Waste Management Inc. in Antigo, WI "The electronics contain silver and gold and we give it Samuel's Recycling in Green Bay - they pay us 12 cents per pound," Wolf said. "We are assured it is recycled correctly." The tribe pays Lamp Recyclers Inc. of DePere, WI to remove hazardous materials like fluorescent light bulbs, batteries and some parts of TVs and computer components. "We will do whatever it takes to do cradle to grave recycling," Wolf said, adding the tribe follows EPA guidelines for electronics and other recyclables. When you add up the labor to break up the electronics and other costs the tribe is losing cash money but are gaining something much more important - a clean community that the adults can proudly leave their children. "We are not making a profit off of it but it is the right thing to do," Wolf said.
On Friday, April 25, 2008, the 183 students at the Menominee Tribal School (k-8) will be cleaning the area around the school of litter and recyclables and other downtown areas of Neopit, one of four communities on the reservation. The tribe's 234,000-acre reservation includes the communities of Keshena, Zoar and South Branch. "The students will be picking up litter and recyclables - and anything that's on the roads or sidewalks or the yards," Wolf said, adding the students will be planting 50 saplings. The tribal school cleanup project will be followed by a potluck picnic lunch of native foods plus Sloppy Joes, potato chips and Kool-Aid, Wolf said. "We are inviting the parents to bring a potluck and there will likely be wild rice and other Native American dishes," Wolf said. The lunch will include a drama performance and include Native Music involving the "Wind Eagle Drum" or the "high school drum" consisting of students who are learning the music of the Menominee tribe's history. "Our school is very much a cultural-motivated school," Wolf said. "The school teaches about the Menominee culture and language. The students learn about our Menominee history and our language amongst the non-native teaching." "My children speak fluent Menominee because they have been in the school for three years," Wolf said.
The MITW has nearly 10,000 members including an enrolled population of 8,471 (most of whom still live on the reservation) and 1,268 enrolled descendants. "We believe it's important for our Tribal members to recycle, reduce waste and energy consumption, and reuse items," said Wolf. Wolf said her office does everything they can to educate youngsters about protecting the environment. Wolf said every year her co-workers have to clean up illegal dumping sites in the tribe's 234,000 acres of forest. The tribe's solid waste facility has annually collected up to five tons of computers and other electronics over the past decade. Meanwhile in a separate event, Menominee tribal college students are doing their part to protect the planet with e-Waste and pharmaceutical collections. The College of Menominee Nation (State Hwy. 47/55) in Keshena, is accepting e-waste and unwanted medicines on April 22 from 9 a.m. to noon - and accepting e-Waste from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the commons building. The college’s Implementing Sustainable Development class is hosting the collection with help from the tribe's solid waste coordinator. The e-Waste collection will accept electronics including old/broken computers, cell phones and batteries. The pharmaceutical collection is accepting old and unwanted medications that must be in their original bottle or container. --- Keshena, Wisconsin: (all month) April 21, 2008 Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin Diana Wolf (715-799-5189) e-Waste Collected with regular curbside bulk items Spring Cleaning collection. --- Keshena, Wisconsin: April 22, 2008 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (e-Waste) 9 a.m. to noon (Pharmaceuticals) College of Menominee Nation - commons building Cheyenne Caldwell 715-851-3240 e-Waste and Unwanted Medications State Hwy. 47/55 Our college will collect e-waste and expired medicines and work with the Solid Waste Coordinator of the Menominee Indian Tribe in the disposal of this material. --- Related Links:
Earth healing Initiative Keshena, WI page Earth Healing Initiative website Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin homepage Call: Diana 715-799-5189 or Jeremy 715-799-5710 Samuels Recycling - Green Bay, WI: Links to sites about Samuel's Recycling in Green Bay: (Buyer Mike Zastrow - 1-920-494-3451)
Alternative Metal Recycling page on Samuels Recycling Wisconsin DNR page about Samuels Recycling
Green Bay newspaper info about Samuels Recycling
Posted on 04/11/2008 5:40 AM Comments (0)
The Turtle Island Project: 2008 Indigenous Earth Day Summit April 22-23 in Marquette, MI at Northern Michigan University
The 2008 Indigenous Earth Day Summit is April 22-23 at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, MI
This summit is made possible by the Center for Native American Studies, the Environmental Science Program and the Office of International Programs. This summit is a call to action on Indigenous environmental issues in the Great Lakes area, on Turtle Island and around the world. An Aboriginal Australian delegation from the Traditional Knowledge Revival Pathways project will be featured as keynote presenters and will provide musical entertainment.
The day/time will be announced soon.
Turtle Island Project Presentation #1
In the Spirit of the Earth Ecologico-Poetics: Native American story telling and the Ecological Challenge Rev. Hubbard will first establish the many similarities between the functioning of a language and a religion within a particular cultural context - suggesting that the original language of human beings is poetry, and that poetry (mytho-poetics) is the true and proper language of religious consciousness. Dr. Hubbard speak of the limitations of rational discourse (the inability of logic to express the truth of mythos) and suggest that indigenous language, as expressed through the many stories involving human and animal interactions, holds the key to the creation of an ecological-poetic understanding of the world, an understanding that can function as a corrective to traditional Euro-American forms of religion and science, which have helped to contribute to the current global ecological crisis. ---
In The Absence of the Sacred Ecologico-Spirituality: Sacred Land and the struggle for Human Liberation "Sacred places are the foundation of all other beliefs and practices because they represent the presence of the sacred in our lives." Vine Deloria, Jr. Human societies have traditionally made either nature or history determinative of reality. It is clear that traditional western forms of spirituality prefer history as the source of divine revelation, and hence use temporal metaphors for expressing their sense of the sacred, which is often understood as existing apart from the natural processes of the physical world. Indigenous forms of spirituality prefer nature as a source of sacred knowledge, and use primarily temporal metaphors to express their sense of the sacred, which are often tied to a specific time and a specific place. In this presentation, Dr. Hubbard will the examine the implications of these differing metaphors in relationship to the idea of sacred Land. What is the sacred? What do we mean by sacred land? Is it possible for modern Euro-Americans to understand such a concept? What is the relationship of Sacred Lands to global ecological concerns? Does western culture, still have a notion of the sacred? Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard bio:
Lynn Hubbard M.DIV. D.MIN. is founder and director of the Turtle Island Project (TIP) in Munising, Michigan. He is currently the minister of Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising. In addition to graduating from Valparaiso University and holding advanced degrees from the Lutheran School of Theology and Chicago Theological Seminary, Lynn has studied at the Pedagogishe Hochschule in Reutlingen, German, the Religious Studies Department at the University of Indiana, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. For many years he worked as the Associate Dean of Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago. He has served a number of churches throughout the Chicago area, and lived on the island of St. Croix, in the Virgin Islands, pastoring two Afro-Caribbean Lutheran congregations. He has had extensive experience in both the interfaith and ecumenical communities, and served as the Director of Development for the Parliament of World’s Religious. Most recently, in working in his capacity as spiritual director for Juvenile sex offenders, he has given national and international conference presentations on "Creating Ritual Process for Juvenile Sex Offenders from a Cross Cultural Perspective". He travels regularly to the Lakota Sioux reservations in South Dakota, where he helps prepare graduate theological students in cross-cultural ministerial training. He has been honored by members of the Sigancu tribe of the Lakota people in being asked to serve as a fire keeper for their Sundance ceremonies. Summary of Turtle Island Project websites & TV (video) sites: Turtle Island Project Whispering Turtle website Turtle Island Project on myspace --- Topics include: Traditional Ecological Knowledge (T.E.K.) Education and Indigenous environmental concerns History of industrialism, industrial threats, Indigenous peoples and the Earth Economic globalization and Indigenous peoples Indigenous languages and the Earth Solutions in Indigenous cultures to environmental problems Indigenous subsistence rights and protection of sacred land Global poisoning and the impact on Indigenous peoples Climate change and its impact on Indigenous peoples --- Center for Native American Studies Northern Michigan University April Lindala, Director 112F Whitman Hall Marquette, MI 49855 For more information: NMU Center for Native American Studies homepage NMU 2008 Indigenous Earth Day Summit page Office: 906-227-1397 Fax: 906-227-1396
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Earth Healing Initiative: Bringing faith traditions, American Indian tribes to EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day ChallengeEnvironmental tipping point: Faith communities have a duty to protect the Earth, and Native Americans, other Indigenous peoples can teach us a lot about respecting nature
“We have what we call atmospheric loading here where contaminants are carried over by wind currents and then deposited in rainfall,” said Magnuson with seagulls from Lake Superior squawking overhead. “The third river is what Thomas Berry calls ‘Indigenous wisdom” - wisdom from the native communities around the world that is resurging,” Magnuson said. “For instance, their protection and use of plants - both in Latin and South America as well in parts of north America - the protection of sacred sites,” he said.
“We realize now these are connected to protection of plants, animals and an ecosystem that hilds great medicinal qualities for communities and individuals,” Magnuson explained.
Magnuson recognized the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin near Green Bay that has three projects connected to the EPA’s Earth day Challenge and thanked the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) and other northern Michigan tribes that have participated in other Cedar Tree Institute events like the four-year restoration of Upper Peninsula wild rice beds by at-risk teens and tribal elders.
KBIC CEO Susan Lafernier, above, attends April 2006 press conference with Upper Peninsula bishops and other faith leaders to announce the creation of the Northern Michigan University EartyhKeeper student team.
The annual Earth Day (2005-2007) collections were part of the interfaith Earth Keeper Initiative. The Cedar Tree Institute co-founded the Upper Peninsula Earth Keepers who work closely with ten faith traditions on a wide range of environment projects that include college students, at-risk teens, American Indian tribes and others. The CTI Earth healing Initiative is developing the same relationship with the same faith communities in northern Michigan and others across the Great lakes. The faith communities include Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Methodist Church, Unitarian Universalist, Baha'i, Jewish, The Religious Society of Friends (commonly known as the Quakers) and Zen Buddhist.
--- Related Links: --- Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative homepage EPA GLNPO Official challenge link List of events for EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge EPA Press Release on challenge EPA "Flow of the River" Blog for Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge --- http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/htallant/courses/his338/students/kpotter Roman Catholic Theologian Thomas Berry: Berry calls himself a "geologian" rather than a theologian. http://www.northland.edu/NR/rdonlyres/F759A7A1-55B2-4AB5-B8F5-0DF7A9B5AB6D/0/ConvergingStreams4.pdf http://www.thomasberry.org/Essays/IntroductionToTheSpecialEdition.html
http://www.earth-community.org
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For Earth Day 2008 residents and communities around the Great Lakes are being challenged to collect and recycle electronic waste and to properly dispose of unwanted medicines. Collections are being held in large cities and surrounding areas like Chicago, Milwaukee and Cleveland. Illinois: Beecher, Bolingbrook, Channahon, Chicago, Elk Grove Village, Glenview, Joliet, Park Ridge, Romeoville, Shorewood, West Chicago, Wheaton Indiana: LaPorte, Fort Wayne, Rushville, Valparaiso Michigan: Minnesota: New York: Ohio: Cleveland, Perrysburg, Sandusky, Springfield, Warren Pennsylvania: TBA Wisconsin: Appleton, Brillion, Chilton, Keshena (Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and College of Menominee Nation), Milwaukee, New Holstein, Oshkosh, Racine, Waupaca
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April 7, 2008An Introduction: The Earth Healing Initiative & the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge
The new Earth Healing Initiative (EHI) is organizing faith communities. The EHI is one of numerous environment and Native American projects founded by the non-profit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, Michigan.
The Michigan Earth Keeper Initiative, co-founded by the Cedar Tree Institute, have alliances with ten faith traditions across the Upper Peninsula, and the EHI is coordinating the same relationships with religious communities across the Great Lakes and beyond. The co-founder of the Michigan Earth Keepers, ELCA Lutheran Rev. Jon Magnuson created the Earth Healing Initiative in March 2008 to spread the word about interfaith and Native American environment projects. EPA GLNPO Official challenge link List of events for EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge EPA Press Release on challenge EPA "Flow of the River" Blog for Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge United States EPA Great Lakes National Programs Office grants are helping to fund this event across eight states in the Great Lakes Basin.Earth Day 2008:The Earth Healing Initiative is sponsored by the non-profit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, MI and is collaborating with the EPA, cities, landfills, groups, state/local governments across the Great Lakes Basin to promote the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge - and to help arrange interfaith and Native American volunteers and participants. All faith traditions, religions, minorities, tribes and other Indigenous peoples are encouraged to volunteer for and/or participate in the projects in your area. For Earth Day 2008 residents and communities around the Great Lakes are being challenged to collect and recycle electronic waste and to properly dispose of unwanted medicines. Collections are being held in large cities and surrounding areas like Chicago, Milwaukee and Cleveland. Cities/Collection sites include locations in eight states: Illinois: Beecher, Bolingbrook, Channahon, Chicago, Elk Grove Village, Glenview, Joliet, Park Ridge, Romeoville, Shorewood, West Chicago, Wheaton Indiana: LaPorte, Fort Wayne, Rushville, Valparaiso Michigan: Minnesota: New York: Ohio: Cleveland, Perrysburg, Sandusky, Springfield, Warren Pennsylvania: TBA Wisconsin: Appleton, Brillion, Chilton, Keshena (Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and College of Menominee Nation), Milwaukee, New Holstein, Oshkosh, Racine, Waupaca EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge
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