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EPA Great Lakes Challenge: Syracuse recycles 9 tons of TVs wit...

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EPA Great Lakes Challenge: Syracuse recycles 9 tons of TVs with Onondaga County Resource Recovery

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Syracuse, NY residents show their respect for Great Lakes including love for Lake Erie by turning over 9 tons of old TVs to be recycled by the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency Syracuse skyline photo by Joe Grimes, Wikipedia --- (Syracuse, New York) - A leader in electronic waste recycling projects in the northeast is the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency (OCRRA) in Syracuse, NY. The agency held a TV collection on Saturday, April 19 in the Alliance Bank Stadium parking lot as part of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge. The Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency received an EPA grant to help offset costs of the recycling project. It was one of over 100 projects involved in the challenge across eight states in the Great Lakes Basin. Organizers keep traffic flowing smoothly as 964 vehicles arrived with old TVs. The event took in 1,551 old television sets weighing 97,080 pounds, according to Andrew Radin, Director of Recycling and Waste Reduction for the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency. That means nearly 9 tons of old TVs from central New York were recycled. Syracuse State Tower building photo by Joe Grimes Syracuse Franklin Park photo by Kai Brinker, Newkai is a member of WikiProject Syracuse, New York Syracuse Jerry Rescue Monument photo by Paul Malo --- The agency also holds ongoing e-waste collections at the Community Collection Center also know as 3-C - located at 6085 Court Street - in Syracuse, NY. The electronics collection dates and times are: Tuesdays from 4pm to 8pm; Thursdays from 8am to noon; and Saturdays from 9am to 1 p.m. There is no charge to drop off household e-waste and other items at the collection center including old computers plus related equipment and fluorescent bulbs, household batteries, cell phones, smoke detectors, tabletop copiers, DVD players, electronic game consoles like Nintendo, and Xbox, fax machines, phones, VCRs and stereos including speakers. The agency is developing a plan to accept TVs at the center. Over 60,000 pounds has been turned in at the Community Collection Center so far this year. Business waste in not accepted. The center also accepts books - covers must be removed. In a unique twist - the agency is helping the hungry - by asking residents dropping off items to be recycled to also bring canned food and other non perishables for Food Bank of Central New York. The Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency is known as OCRRA for short using its initials. Since 2002, OCRRA has collected over 1,000 tons of e-waste from the community for recycling OCRRA has numerous environment projects that benefit the Syracuse area including it’s Blue Bin It campaign. Blue Bin It is based on the well-know blue bins that are popular in recycling projects across the country. OCRRA has a series of radio spots promoting its blue bin it campaign. (See Blue Bin It Radio ads in this video) The goal of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was the collecting and recycling of one million pounds of electronics (e-Waste) plus the collection and proper disposal of one million pills. The EPA says those goals were exceeded by 400 to 500 percent. The Earth Healing Initiative assisted some challenge organizers by offering interfaith liaisons to volunteer and encourage members of local churches and temples to participate in the Earth Day related events in their area. This video on the projects connected to the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was made possible by a grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with the EPA's Region 5 office in Chicago, the EPA Great Lakes national Program Office also in Chicago in cooperation with the non-profit Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative in Marquette, MI. The EHI involves American Indian tribes and a coalition of churches, synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal, protect and defend the environment. I’m Greg Peterson and you’re watching Earth Healing TV --- Related Links: --- Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency (OCRRA) recycling page http://www.ocrra.org/recycling_c3.asp --- Contact: Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency (OCRRA) in Syracuse, NY Andrew J. Radin Director of Recycling and Waste Reduction Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency (OCRRA) 315-453-2866 315-295-0726 --- The Food Bank of Central New York http://www.foodbankcny.org/ Portrait of Hunger: http://www.foodbankcny.org/default.aspx?PageID=752 --- Onondaga Creek running through the Franklin Square area Syracuse on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse,_New_York Syracuse skyline photo by Joe Grimes Syracuse skyline wide shot photo by Joe Grimes Syracuse State Tower building photo by Joe Grimes Onondaga Creek running through the Franklin Square area Syracuse skyline photo by Kai Brinker, Newkai is a member of WikiProject Syracuse, New York Syracuse Franklin Park photo by Kai Brinker, Newkai is a member of WikiProject Syracuse, New York Syracuse Jerry Rescue Monument photo by Paul Malo --- EPA Region 5 Office in Chicago, Illinois http://www.epa.gov/region5 --- Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative http://www.EarthHealingInitiative.org Call: 906-401-0109 --- Cedar Tree Institute http://www.CedarTreeInstitute.org --- Interfaith graphics by Justice St. Rain (Baha'i Community) of Interfaith Resources - Special Ideas website: http://www.interfaithresources.com Justice St. Rain 1-800-326-1197 (toll free) 1-847-733-3559 (wk) Interfaith Resources P.O. Box 9 511 Diamond Rd Heltonville, IN 47436 --- More photos from OCRRA TV Collection:

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EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge congratulations from Bishop Thomas Skrenes

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An Earth Healing message, thank you and congratulations from Lutheran Bishop Thomas A. Skrenes about the success of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge A Lutheran Bishop who has participated in interfaith Earth Day recycling projects for four years in a row said "the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge has been a success." Celebrate - what a great day Earth Day has been 2008," said Lutheran Bishop Thomas A. Skrenes of the Northern Great Lakes Synod (NGLS) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). "The Earth Healing Initiative has been a great success this year." "Computers have been recycled, pharmaceuticals have been brought together for proper disposal," Skrenes said. "What a great opportunity it has been to be part of the ecumenical work and interfaith work of assisting others to see the environmental concerns set before us," said Bishop Skrenes of Marquette, Michigan. With hundreds of thousands of people participating across eight states in the Midwest and Northeast, Bishop Skrenes said interfaith environment projects like the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge will help ensure a better future for all humans. "It is a sign of great significance that people can join hands and work together," Skrenes said. "So celebrate - it is a good day for the environment and it is a good day for all of us together." Bishop Skrenes thanked the EPA, faith communities and "people of goodwill throughout the upper Midwest who have been a part of this work." "It has been a great day, a great week, a great Earth day 2008," Skrenes said. "The EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge has been a part of the lives and will be a part of the future of this whole area." Bishop Skrenes is one of the original nine faith leaders who signed the Earth Keeper Covenant in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in 2004 that lead to many interfaith projects Background: Earth Healing Initiative and the Michigan Earth Keeper Initiative The Cedar Tree Institute (CTI) co-founded the interfaith Earth Keeper Initiative in Michigan's Upper Peninsula that works 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.

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E-waste, drug collections protect Great Lakes, environment and your drinking and groundwater

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The EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge removed a huge amount of electronic waste and pharmaceuticals from eight states. The goal of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was the collecting and recycling of one million pounds of electronics (e-Waste) plus the collection and proper disposal of one million pills. These goals were exceeded many times over. --- A few examples: --- In Milwaukee: 32 tons of electronic waste and 3.5 tons of pharmaceuticals were turned in. --- At the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin near Green Bay: Approx. 4 tons of e-waste was collected plus thousands of pounds of other trash cleaned from reservation Tribal members turned in ver 23 pounds of medicines including 100 bottles of pills, more than 25 computers and dozens of related components like hard drives, printers, keyboards and speakers; televisions, radios, DVD players, 12 cell phones and over 100 small batteries. --- In Traverse City: Over 28,750 pounds (over 12.5 tons) of computers and other e-waste was collected. --- The electronic waste is recycled, and the pharmaceuticals are incinerated in state-of-the-art EPA -license facilities. So why is this important? The old and broken electronics - like computers, cell phones and TVs - contain heavy metals that can leach into the groundwater if dumped into landfills. The unused pharmaceuticals can end up in your drinking water if they are flushed or poured down the drain. That’s because most wastewater treatment facilities are not designed to remove chemicals from these pharmaceuticals including hormones, narcotics, seizure medication and many more - that end up back in your drinking water. In an April 2008 press conference in Milwaukee - EPA and other officials explained why the Great Lakes Challenge and similar projects are important to protect the environment and your health. Pharmaceutical chemicals are sent back out into the Great Lakes, rivers and other places were people recreate and are the intakes for drinking water. Studies show that the chemicals are appearing in the nation’s drinking water in small amounts - the long term effects are not known - however they have been linked to mutations in fish and other wildlife. Also - these medicines can be stolen, diverted or accidently ingested by children - if they languish in your medicine cabinet. Around the country many e-waste and pharmaceutical take back programs have been developed by governments and local businesses. Please check with your local officials to find out details for your area. Because every day should be Earth Day. This video on the projects connected to the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was made possible by a grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with the EPA's Region 5 office in Chicago the EPA Great Lakes national Program Office also in Chicago in cooperation with the non-profit Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative in Marquette, MI. The EHI involves American Indian tribes and "a coalition of churches synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal protect and defend the environment," said EHI founder Rev Jon Magnuson of Marquette Michigan. I’m Greg Peterson and you’re watching Earth Healing TV --- Supers: Bill Graffin Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District Voice of: Dr. Susan E. Boehme EPA Coastal Sediment Specialist Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant EPA Milwaukee Medicine Collection Photos/Video by Dr. Susan Boehme EPA Milwaukee e-waste video by John Perrecone Bharat Mathur EPA deputy regional administrator EPA Region 5 Office in Chicago Tom Barrett Milwaukee Mayor Rick Meyers City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works DPW Recycling Manager ------- EPA Region 5 Office in Chicago, Illinois http://www.epa.gov/region5 --- EPA Region 5 Office in Chicago, Illinois Bharat Mathur, EPA Deputy Regional Administrator 312-886-3000 mathur.bharat@epa.gov http://www.epa.gov/region5/aboutr5/organization.htm --- For more information on the electronics collection contact: City of Milwaukee Dept of Public Works Rick Meyers, Recycling Manager 414-286-2334 --- Milwaukee Dept. Of Public Works: http://www.mpw.net Milwaukee DPW e-Waste event page: http://www.mpw.net/Pages/escrap.html City of Milwaukee e-Waste event flyer: http://www.mpw.net/docs/escrap_flyer.pdf City of Milwaukee e-Waste advertisement http://www.mpw.net/docs/escrap_ad.pdf --- Medicine collection sponsor/contact: Milwaukee Metro Sewerage District 260 West Seeboth St. Milwaukee, WI 53204 Steve Jacquart, Milwaukee Metro Sewerage District 414-225-2138 (wk) --- Milwaukee Metro Sewerage District: http://www.mmsd.com Milorganite - How do we make this stuff? http://www.mmsd.com/news/detail.cfm?id=114 --- Milwaukee pdf flyer - scroll down pdf to bottom to see mini-version: http://www.mmsd.com/images/programs/MedicineCollection_041908.pdf --- Traverse City, Michigan April 26, 2008 Sponsor/Contact: Grand Traverse County Resource Recovery Kim Duane Elliott 231-995-6075 kelliott@grandtraverse.org Type of Event: e-Waste Goodwill Industries, Sam's Club and Grand Traverse County Resource Recovery held a free Computer Recycling Collection. Tons of home and business computer equipment and peripherals were dropped of to a donation truck at Sam's Club, 2401 US Hwy 31 S, Traverse City on Saturday, April 26, 2008. websites: Grand Traverse County Resource Recovery: http://www.co.grand-traverse.mi.us/departments/resource_recovery.htm Recycle Smart Brochure-pdf: http://www.co.grand-traverse.mi.us/AssetFactory.aspx?did=2359 --- Related information/websites: --- Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative: http://www.EarthHealingInitiative.org --- Milwaukee Earth Healing Initiative page: http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org/milwaukee.html --- Final EPA Flow of the River blog post: http://flowoftheriver.epa.gov/greatlakeschallenge/2008/05/so-long-and-tha.html --- Media News Wire: http://media-newswire.com/release_1064289.html --- Freedom Ring Blog - Milwaukee: http://freedomeden.blogspot.com/2008/04/milwaukees-great-lakes-2008-earth-day.html --- EPA #1 results press release: http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/fa96ab2aafc467688525743a003c9efa?OpenDocument --- EPA says challenge a big success: Goals met and exceeded http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/epas-great-lakes-earth-day,367679.shtml --- Interfaith graphics by Justice St. Rain (Baha'i Community) of Interfaith Resources - Special Ideas website: http://www.interfaithresources.com Justice St. Rain 1-800-326-1197 (toll free) 1-847-733-3559 (wk) Interfaith Resources P.O. Box 9 511 Diamond Rd Heltonville, IN 47436 --- Project sites included locations in eight states: Illinois: Alton, Beecher, Bellwood, Bolingbrook, Carol Stream, Channahon, Chicago, Elk Grove Village, Elmhurst, Glenview, Joliet, Lockport, Lombard, Mount Prospect, Northbrook, Park Ridge, Romeoville, Shorewood, Villa Park, West Chicago, Wheaton, Woodstock Indiana: Columbia City, Hammond, Knox, LaPorte, Fort Wayne, Rushville, Valparaiso Michigan: Bay City (two events), Benton Harbor, Bloomfield Hills, Dearborn Heights, East Lansing, Farmington Hills, Goodells, Grand Rapids (two events) Harbor Springs, Lansing, Midland, Monroe, Royal Oaks, Sault Ste. Marie, Southfield, Traverse City Minnesota: Blaine, Brooklyn Park, Duluth, Eagan, Eden Prairie, Madison, Maple Grove, New Ulm, Saint Cloud, Shakopee, St. Louis Park, St. Paul New York: Brockport, Buffalo, Fredonia, Rochester (two events), Syracuse (two events). Ohio: Cleveland, Grove City, Kent, Perrysburg, Sandusky, Springfield, Toledo, Warren Pennsylvania: Erie, Lancaster Wisconsin: Appleton, Brillion, Chilton, Crandon, Green Bay, Keshena (Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and College of Menominee Nation), Manitowoc, Milwaukee, New Holstein, Oshkosh, Plover (two events), Racine, Superior, Waupaca. --- A special thanks to the residents of Milwaukee who proved they love their city, Lake Michigan and the Great Lakes. Also, we appreciate the support of the city of Milwaukee DPW and MMSD event partners without whom the collection would not have been possible: E-scrap collection sponsors: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, city of Milwaukee Department of Public Works (DPW), Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful, the Italian Community Center, Midwest Computer Recyclers and WISN TV. Medicine collection sponsors: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Milwaukee Police, Milwaukee Brewers, City of Milwaukee, Aurora Pharmacy, Columbia St. Mary's, City of Racine, Racine Police Department, Burlington Police Department, Western Racine County Health Department, Caledonia/Mt. Pleasant Health Department, Ozaukee County Public Health Department, Ozaukee County Sheriff's Department, Milwaukee Area Technical College, Village of Saukville, Washington County, Washington County Sheriff's Department, and City of West Bend Sewer Utility.

Recycling 101: College of Menominee Nation & the EPA Great Lak...

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Recycling 101: College of Menominee Nation & the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge

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College of Menominee Nation: EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge and a lesson in Great Lakes recycling 101 Dr. William Van Lopik, College of Menominee Nation professor of the Implementing Sustainable Development classes The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin contributed over 4 tons of electronic and pharmaceutical waste to the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge. This is the first of several vidoes explaining the tribes numerous projects that included cleaning up the reservation, replacing gang symbols with Native American art, teaching youth about the legend of the sturgeon and its place in tribal culture. In part one, the non-profit interfaith Earth Healing Initiative looks at the many recycling projects of the College of Menominee nation. --- (Keshena, WI) - The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin in Keshena is being praised for its massive cleanup projects during the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge - involving over 100 projects across eight states that comprise the Great Lakes basin. The college of Menominee Nation held a pharmaceutical and electronic waste collection as part of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge. Other tribal projects during the challenge included the clean up of two reservation communities by tribal school students, The Menominee Teen Court Panel, and many other volunteers. All classes at the tribal school taught the students about the sturgeon, that is a vital part of Menominee legend and heritage. Called the protector guardian of Menominee wild rice, the sturgeon used to spawn on the reservation until a man made dam blocked the route so the sturgeon could not reach their ancestral spawning grounds. The students also whitewashed gang graffiti at a skateboard park replacing it with American Indian art. Adults participated in the challenge in a big way - as the tribe's Solid Waste and Recycling Department held curbside e-waste collections during Earth week 2008 - and all month accepted e-waste at the transfer station. Cardboard and other items are also recycled by the Menominee tribe. Native American and other students also made garbage monsters at the Keshena Public Schools with help from their parents using common every day trash from home. The students made a presentation on how to be reuse stuff they normally thrown in the trash like plastic jugs. More than four tons of e-waste and other recyclables - plus litter - was removed from the reservation during April. 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 cleaned up the reservation and whitewashed gang graffiti. At the College of Menominee Nation, the Earth Day 2008 e-waste and medicine collections went smoothly as people turned in hundreds of items. Over 23 pounds of medicines were turned in including 100 bottles of pills, more than 25 computers and dozens of related components like hard drives, printers, keyboards and speakers; televisions, radios, DVD players, 12 cell phones and over 100 small batteries. The collection is among numerous Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin (MITW) projects that are part of the United States Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge that runs through the end of April. Gang graffiti was whitewashed from a skateboard park wall near the tribal school by K-8 students. The MITW youth honored Earth Day and replaced graffiti with positive Native American symbols. "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 cleaned up litter around the community of Neopit. "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 Mother Earth can shake us off at any moment," she said. "We are the ones that need her, she doesn't need us." "Clean up the Rez Day" was held on Thursday, April 24 at the tribe's Youth Development and Outreach program. The Menominee Teen Court Panel and volunteers cleaned up garbage, said Claudette Hewson, MITW Restorative Justice Coordinator. The teen panel, ages 14 to 17, is a peer review for youthful offenders sentenced in tribal court who "need to learn healthy behaviors," Hewson said. On May 2, at-risk teens will paint over more reservation gang graffiti. Sponsors 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. Earth Week tribal school classes applied 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. Overseeing the pharmaceutical collection was Heidi Cartwright, pictured on the left above, a part-time Manawa police officer and college police science instructor. While hosting the collection, the college's Implementing Sustainable Development class found out they won the National Recycling Coalition Bin Grant through Coca-Cola, said 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 grant pays for 50 recycling bins that the college plans to share with the tribal school. 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 curbside pickup of electronics during Earth Week. A couple thousand pounds of electronics were turned in at the MITW transfer station since April 1. The total is expected to reach several tons. Native American students 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 explained other uses for the garbage. This video on the projects connected to the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with the EPA's Region 5 office in Chicago, the EPA Great Lakes national Program Office, also in Chicago, in cooperation with the non-profit Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative in Marquette, MI. The EHI involves American Indian tribes and "a coalition of churches, synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal, protect and defend the environment," said EHI founder Rev. Jon Magnuson of Marquette, Michigan. --- I'm Greg Peterson and you're watching Earth Healing TV --- Related website about Keshena, Neopit, the College of Menominee Nation and Menominee County, WI: --- Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin official website - homepage: http://www.menominee-nsn.gov --- MITW Tribal School website: http://mts.bia.edu/ --- College of Menominee Nation http://www.menominee.edu --- Earth Healing Initiative Keshena, WI page: http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org/keshena.html Earth Healing Initiative: http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org --- MITW Maehnowesekiyah Wellness Center: http://www.menominee-nsn.gov/healthFamily/maehnowesekiyah/maehHome.php http://www.wcadv.org/index.cfm?go=about/news_pressrelease%id=26 http://www.reznetnews.org/article/news/scared_and_scarred --- University of WI Cooperative Extention wesbsite page for Menominee tribe info like schools, college: http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cty/menominee/index.html --- 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 --- 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 -- From Wikipedia: The College of the Menominee Nation (abbreviated CMN) is one of 34 tribal based community colleges in the United States. The college's main campus is in Keshena, Wisconsin and has another campus in Oneida, Wisconsin. The college is one of two tribal based colleges in Wisconsin. The tribal college was chartered in 1993. The college began offering classes in the 1993 Spring semester. The College of Menominee Nation was granted full accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission on August 7, 1998. The college is a member of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_the_Menominee_Nation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keshena%2C_Wisconsin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopit%2C_Wisconsin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menominee_County%2C_Wisconsin http://www.wisconline.com/counties/menominee/ http://www.wisconline.com/counties/menominee/data.html Recycle Mania: http://www.recyclemaniacs.org/overview.htm http://www.recyclemaniacs.org/university_detail08.asp?ID=4018 National Recycling Coalition Bin Grant through Coca-Cola: http://www.nrc-recycle.org/bingrantrelease.aspx http://www.nrc-recycle.org/coca-colanrcbingrantprogram.aspx http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104%STORY=/www/story/04-22-2008/0004797928%EDATE=

EPA Regional Admin. Mary Gade: Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Chal...

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on importance of Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge

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EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently held a press conference with City of Milwaukee officials about the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge and the goal of collecting one million pounds of electronics to recycle and one million pills to properly dispose . Those speaking the April 16, 20087 press conference included EPA deputy regional administrator Bharat Mathur (EPA Region 5 Office in Chicago, Ill.) Bharat explained the importance of thje pharmaceutical and e-waste collections that are going on during Earth Week across eight states in the Great Lakes basin. The EPA and the Earth Healing Initiative would like to thank those who provided this video including the city of Milwaukee "City Channel 25" and the Milwaukee Department of Public Works. ------- Related information/websites: ------- EPA Region 5 Office in Chicago, Illinois Mary A. Gade, Regional Administrator, Great Lakes National Program Manager The Regional Administrator reports directly to the EPA Administrator at EPA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. 312-886-3000 gade.mary@epa.gov http://www.epa.gov/region5/ --- EPA Region 5 Office in Chicago, Illinois Bharat Mathur, EPA Deputy Regional Administrator 312-886-3000 mathur.bharat@epa.gov http://www.epa.gov/region5/aboutr5/organization.htm ---- EPA Press Release: Ask Not What the Environment Can Do For You this Earth Day http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/dc57b08b5acd42bc852573c90044a9c4/bb279434e6f40c6e8525743200582794!OpenDocument --- USA Today story on Lake Superior Climate Change: http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2008-04-21-climatechange_N.htm --- Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative page: http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org ------- City of Milwaukee "City Channel 25" http://www.Milwaukee.gov ------- Interfaith graphics by Justice St. Rain (Bah'i Community) of Interfaith Resources - Special Ideas website: http://www.interfaithresources.com http://www.interfaithresources.com/subcategories.php?dir=leftMenuSub%template=default%id=10 http://www.interfaithresources.com/products.php?id=2469 --- Call Justice St. Rain at Interfaith resources: 1-800-326-1197 --- Interfaith Resources 416 W 4th St. Bloomington IN 47404 --- “Bah'u'llh, the One who founded the Faithclaims to fulfill the prophecies concerning the Promised One of all religions. His life and teachings are worthy of further study to determine the goodness of His fruit, and the validity of His claim.” Quote from “Finding Common Ground” How many beliefs do you share with members of the Bah'i Community? You may be surprised! By Justice St. Rain (Bloomington, IN: Published by Special Ideas, 1997), p. 11 Interfaith graphics located with help from Bahai Media and Public Information specialist Ellen Price wk: 847-733-3559 http://www.bahai.us ------- Project sites include locations in eight states: Illinois: Alton, Beecher, Bellwood, Bolingbrook, Carol Stream, Channahon, Chicago, Elk Grove Village, Elmhurst, Glenview, Joliet, Lockport, Lombard, Mount Prospect, Northbrook, Park Ridge, Romeoville, Shorewood, Villa Park, West Chicago, Wheaton, Woodstock Indiana: Columbia City, Hammond, Knox, LaPorte, Fort Wayne, Rushville, Valparaiso Michigan: Bay City (two events), Benton Harbor, Bloomfield Hills, Dearborn Heights, East Lansing, Farmington Hills, Goodells, Grand Rapids (two events) Harbor Springs, Lansing, Midland, Monroe, Royal Oaks, Sault Ste. Marie, Southfield, Traverse City Minnesota: Blaine, Brooklyn Park, Duluth, Eagan, Eden Prairie, Madison, Maple Grove, New Ulm, Saint Cloud, Shakopee, St. Louis Park, St. Paul New York: Brockport, Buffalo, Fredonia, Rochester (two events), Syracuse (two events). Ohio: Cleveland, Grove City, Kent, Perrysburg, Sandusky, Springfield, Toledo, Warren Pennsylvania: Erie, Lancaster Wisconsin: Appleton, Brillion, Chilton, Crandon, Green Bay, Keshena (Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and College of Menominee Nation), Manitowoc, Milwaukee, New Holstein, Oshkosh, Plover (two events), Racine, Superior, Waupaca. ----

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Earth Healing Initiative: Faith groups, Native Americans help Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge

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Environmental 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 (Marquette, Michigan) - The new non-profit Earth Healing Initiative, based in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, is honoring faith-based and Native American environmental projects across the Great Lakes. The interfaith Earth Healing Initiative (EHI) is currently collaborating with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to promote the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge involving about 37 projects in eight states including providing faith community volunteers where needed and spreading the word about the event in churches and temples. Faith communities across the Great Lakes basin will be involved in the challenge and other Earth Day events. The EHI is one of several faith-based environment projects created by the non-profit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, Michigan. Rev. Jon Magnuson said it is important for people of faith to do their part to protect the environment adding the Christian is at a “tipping point” in its relationship with itself and the Earth - adding “the church needs to be here.” Quoting nineteenth century theologian and social reformer Walter Rauschenbusch, Magnuson said “if a man or woman wants to be a Christian - she or he - must stand over and against things as they are - and condemn them in the name of a higher conception of life revealed by Jesus.” “I believe the environmental crisis that we are now involved in is a great tipping point in the church’s own evolution of its self-understanding,” Magnuson said while sitting on the stoops of his Marquette home near the shores of Lake Superior. Roman Catholic theologian Thomas Berry “talks about three rivers converging at this time in human history,” said Magnuson, who is the executive director of the Cedar Tree Institute and the founder of the Earth Healing Initiative. “The first river is an avalanche and explosion of scientific knowledge that is pointing to the interconnectedness of everything,” Magnuson said. “The greatest polluter of Lake Superior has recently been identified as a major factory in China,” he said. “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. “But along with the interconnectedness of everything, the second stream (mentioned by author Thomas Berry) is the health crisis that is facing us - the CDC (the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta) suggests now that 80 percent of all cancers are environmentally triggered,” Magnuson said. “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. “So these rivers are coming together,” said Magnuson, raising his hands and interlacing his fingers in a gesture representing the merging of Berry’s three great rivers. “It is an historic time - it is a tipping moment - a tipping point - the church needs to be here,” Magnuson said. 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 KBIC participated in the three Earth Keeper Clean Sweeps that saw the public turn in over 370 tons of hazardous waste, pharmaceuticals and electronics across northern Michigan. The annual Earth Day (2005-2007) collections were part of the interfaith Earth Keeper Initiative. “The Native American community has been a partner with us from the very beginning on everyone of our projects,” Magnuson said. “They have not only sent volunteers but on one particular instance they provided several trucks to be able to haul polluted materials and hazardous waste. “So we are thankful to many of the tribes here in northern Michigan for being partners and we look forward to working with tribes in the Earth healing Initiative,” Magnuson said. 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 Earth 911 --- Theologian and social reformer Walter Rauschenbusch: Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918) was a Baptist minister among the poor and the industrial workers of New York city Rauschenbusch began his first long-term pastorate at the Second German Baptist Church in New York, in a poor and dangerous neighborhood called "Hell’s Kitchen," on 1 June 1886. Robert T. Handy records that the young pastor began his tenure intending to evangelize first and foremost, but that his education "in individualistic conservatism" had not prepared him for the poor standards of living, lack of education and danger. Sharpe concurs, informing us that in the eleven years he spent in Hell’s Kitchen, Rauschenbusch decided "that industrial crises" existed due to the capitalistic system under which the poor struggled, exacerbating sickness, violence, and problems presented by bad food. http://www.somareview.com/wrestlingwithrauschenbusch.cfm http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?%5Fencoding=UTF8%search-type=ss%index=books%field-author=Walter%20Rauschenbusch http://www.rauschenbusch.org http://www.amazon.com/Walter-Rauschenbusch-Contribution-Social-Christianity/dp/1556354177/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/htallant/courses/his338/students/kpotter http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/apr1989/v46-1-bookreview9.htm http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/rausch-socialgospel.html http://www.rauschenbusch.org/subpages/employment.html ---- 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 Thomas Berry: "The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects." http://www.thomasberry.org/Essays/IntroductionToTheSpecialEdition.html --- http://www.earth-community.org http://www.earth-is-community.org.uk/aboutthomasberry.htm --- Thomas Berry: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/tb.html --- ‘A Communion of Subjects’ By Stephen B. Scharper (Evening Thoughts By Thomas Berry and Mary Evelyn Tucker - Sierra Club Books. 173 p $19.95) I n future years, when the history of our lagging environmental consciousness is written, there may well be a special place devoted to the work of Thomas Berry. Berry, a Passionist priest, cultural historian and self-described “geologian,” has for almost four decades been writing and reflecting on the place of the human within an awe-inspiring, unfolding and increasingly mysterious cosmos. His speculations are fueled not simply by intellectual curiosity, but by a deep concern about the baleful plundering of the planet. Formerly director of the Riverdale Center of Religious Research and founder of the history of religions program at Fordham University, Berry served as environmental advisor to the Clinton administration; and through his numerous lectures, media appearances and writings, like The Dream of the Earth (1988) and The Great Work (2000), proved an inspiration to countless environmental scholars and activists, especially among religious communities. --- http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=5373%s=1 --- http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives/081001/081001a.htm http://ofm-jpic.org/ecology/relorders/dominican.html http://www.wie.org/j19/bookreview.asp http://www.nccecojustice.org/rasmussen.pdf --- Atmospheric Loading - China pollution reaches North America: http://www.physorg.com/news124991552.html http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/pollution_measure.html http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2008/2008-03-17-04.asp Air pollution blankets a large region of central China so thickly that in places it completely obscures the surface from the satellite’s view. As acquired by the MODIS instrument on the Aqua and Terra satellites, early 2003. (Image courtesy NASA) Coal-fired power plant in the East China province of Jiangsu (Photo by China Resources Power Holdings Co) --- Sacred Sites: http://www.sacredland.org/PDFs/csr_dl.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_of_life Sacred Places website http://www.NorthAmericaSacredPlaces.org --- Scientists Report 80% of Cancer Cases Caused by Environmental & Food Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) released Friday shows that 64 percent ... environment toward cancer risk is about 80-90 percent. http://www.organicconsumers.org --- Turtle Island Project websites: http://www.turtleislandproject.org Other sites: http://groups.msn.com/WhisperingTurtle http://turtleislandproject.wordpress.com Turtle Island TV - Video sites: (blipTV) http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv (youtube) http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse (myspace) http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject ----- United States 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: Benton Harbor , Traverse City Minnesota: Duluth , Madison , New Ulm New York: Syracuse 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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