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19:10:37 10/26/08
U.S. Muslim Leader Imam Hassan Qazwini: Selfish pollute environment; Don't hunt for fun
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Northern Michigan University (NMU) Health & Nutrition Professor Mohey Mowafy (above left) of Marquette introduced Imam Hassan Qazwini (center) to an eager audience of mostly Christians for a living room chat.
Rev. Warren Geier (right) of Bethany Lutheran Church in Ishpeming, MI was among several Lutheran pastors on hand.
Imam Qazwini answered a wide range of questions including the murder of many of his family members in Iraq, the War in Iraq, hunting, interfaith environment projects and common perceptions and misconceptions between religions. (Photos by Greg Peterson)
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Imam Hassan Qazwini: Humans are selfish and don’t treat the environment with justice - it’s the responsibility of all humans and all religions to respect the environment
The Michigan Earth Keeper Initiative has always promoted interfaith connections - and America's top Muslim Imam brought just that message to Marquette, MI
Talk by Imam Hassan Qazwini, head of the Islamic Center of America on Oct. 22, 2008 at the Lutheran Campus Ministry (LCM) Lothlrien House in Marquette, Michigan
Northern Michigan University (NMU) Health & Nutrition Professor Mohey Mowafy of Marquette introduced Imam Hassan Qazwini:
Verbatim comments by Imam Hassan Qazwini:
In the Qur’an God says:
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“Thahara alfasadu feealbarri waalbahri bima kasabat aydee alnnasiliyutheeqahum baAAda allathee AAamiloolaAAallahum yarjiAAoona.” Qur’an (Ar-Rum: verse 41)
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Qur’an (Ar-Rum: verse 41) translated:
Corruption (Mischief) has appeared on land and sea because of (the meed) that the hands of men have earned, that (Allah) may give them a taste of some of their deeds: in order that they may turn back (from Evil). Qur’an (Ar-Rum: verse 41)
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“Corruption has appeared on the sea and on the land due to what the man did - or what the man does.”
Meaning that God created this very beautiful, splendid planet. And he gave it to us as a gift. But he asked us not to corrupt it, not to ruin it, not to destroy it. Use it for our benefit.
Did you know that in this country, we only form five percent of the world’s population, but we consume 25 percent of the world’s energy. What does this mean? This means that I am taking my own share - yet I am taking the share of five other people in this world. I am using my own share plus the share that belongs to five other people - I am consuming.
It means that I am stepping over my limits. And I am doing such injustice to the environment. Why? Simply because I am selfish. I want to enjoy myself. I don’t care about the environment. I don’t care about others and I want to use everything for my own benefit only.
Artwork by Esteban Barahona of San Jos, Costa Rica and courtesy Wikipedia
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I always remind my friend - I say many of you love hunting. How many of you hunt?
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Answering the Imam’s question - news reporter Greg Peterson says “I am growing my beard (for deer season) right now.”
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Imam Hassan Qazwini continues:
Hunting is a hobby that many people love to do.
In Islam, my religion, two people can hunt only.
A hunter - meaning whose career is hunting, someone who makes a living out of hunting.
And the second one: A man who is wandering the desert or the woods. And he got so hungry, and he could not find anything to eat, he went and he hunted something. He ate. That’s fine.
Photo by Greg Peterson
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But for someone to do it as a hobby - it’s prohibited (in Islam).
Why?
Because God allowed me, permitted me as a human being, he gave me the right to take the life of an innocent animal only when I need it. When I need to fill my stomach. When I am hungry. Or when I need to make a living because I have to make a living.
But for me to go out and enjoy myself with the cost of killing an innocent animal - God says: ‘Here your freedom is over.’ You can not take the life of an innocent animal simply because you wanted to enjoy yourself. Simply because you wanted to have some fun.
But obviously, you may tell me: “I am not going to waste it. I will take it.”
I know, but what was my incentive when I hunted this animal. My incentive was to enjoy myself not because I was hungry.
My point that I am trying to say is this: That God want this equilibrium to be kept and to be preserved.
We Muslims refrain from eating so many kind of fish - the kind of fish that does not have scale on the skin - we cannot eat. Why?
Because we know that if we are allowed to eat everything in the ocean then the balance the equilibrium in the ocean will be upset.
Therefor - not only my well-being - the well-being of the environment will be in danger.
Photo by Greg Peterson
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So the bottom line is - that Islam is one of the religions that emphasizes protecting the environment.
You can use from the environment as much as you need - not as much as you enjoy.
You can use the environment as much as you need - not as much as you enjoy.
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Related Links:
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Mosque photo courtesy the Islamic Center of America website
Imam Hassan Qazwini , head of the Islamic Center of America
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Critic of Imam Hassan Qazwini:
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Qur’an and the environment:
http://www.blogtoplist.com/religion/blogdetails-17864-3.html
http://theislamicscience.blogspot.com/2007/04/man-and-pollution.html
http://Qur’an.al-islam.com/Targama/DispTargam.asp?nType=1%nSora=30%nAya=41%nSeg=1%l=eng%t=eng
http://www.Qur’anexplorer.com/?gclid=CISVuKeYw5YCFSMeDQodMnDFKw
http://uniqueislam.com/MAN%20AND%20POLLUTION.htm
http://www.islamforall.net/qur%27an.htm
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/Qur'an/scislam.html
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C%cid=1157962482299%pagename=Zone-English-HealthScience%2FHSELayout
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Saddam Hussein:
http://www.answers.com/topic/saddam-hussein
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Movie "W" by Oliver Stone :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/02/georgebush.usa
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1175491
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg7vwicPx98
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Imam Hassan Qazwini taped NPR interview May 12, 2005 on opening of new Islamic Center of America Mosque in Dearborn - the largest in the U.S.
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Qur’an explained by Wikipedia :
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Wikipedia Islam, Qur’an & Allah related artwork by Esteban Barahona of San Jos, Costa Rica :
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Allah-eser2.png
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Esteban.barahona
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:IslamSymbolAllah.PNG
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Dcp7323-Edirne-Eski_Camii_Allah.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Allah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Allah-eser2.png
http://anagami.deviantart.com
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Qur’an photos new & old:
http://www.bornrich.org/entry/13th-century-quran-sold-for-a-world-record-at-christies
http://foreninger.uio.no/mss/bilder/quran%20001.jpg
http://foreninger.uio.no/mss/bilder/quran%20002.jpg
http://foreninger.uio.no/mss/bilder/quran%20004.jpg
http://foreninger.uio.no/mss/bilder/quran%20006.jpg
http://foreninger.uio.no/
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Mohammad photos on the University of North Florida website :
http://www.unf.edu/classes/freshmancore/core1images/muhammad-westernimage.jpg
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Prophet Muhammad & Other Islamic Prophets on Wikipedia:
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Wikipedia article on Karbala, Iraq:
Wikipedia article on "People from Karbala" (Iraq):
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Muslim 99 names for God: Al-Wadud is“The Loving One” :
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Articles about Muslims & Quran : Muslims believe there are five superior messengers - Mohamad, Jesus, Moses, Noah and Abraham:
http://www.shiatv.net/search_result.php?search_id=Blessing
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Imam Hassan Qazwini NPR interview May 12, 2005 on opening of new Islamic Center of America Mosque in Dearborn - the largest in the U.S. ( Recording of NPR interview )
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Photo courtesy NMU website
Mohey Mowafy
NMU Health & Nutrition Professor
906-249-9133 (hm)
906-227-2366 (wk)
Professor of Health, Physical Education and Recreation
201C Physical Education Instructional Facility
Began teaching at NMU in 1976
mmowafy@nmu.edu
NMU Health & Nutrition Professor Mohey Mowafy is member of speakers bureau with talks on biodiversity:
Mohey Mowafy, a 63-year-old Northern Michigan University professor, brought 32 students to the Democratic Party rally with former Pres. Bill Clinton & an effort to recruit Rudy Giuliani into presidential bid:
Meet NMU Professors:
NMU President’s Council & Prof. Mohey Mowafy:
Northern Michigan University Professor Mohey Mowafy on health and nutrion:
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Lutheran Campus Ministry - Marquette, MI
http://www.nmulutherans.org
Rev. Jon Magnuson, founder & executive director of the non-profit Cedar Tree Institute , welcomes Imam Hassan Qazwini to the Lutheran Campus Ministry house in Marquette, MI.
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02:52:48 10/24/08
U.S. Islamic Leader Imam Hassan Qazwini: Human race, religions have lots in common, few differences
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Important Message from the Leader of Largest Mosque in North America - Imam Hassan Qazwini: Major world religions and people have more in common than differences
Imam Hassan Qazwini, leader of the Islamic Center of America
(Photo by Greg Peterson)
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The interfaith Earth Keeper Initiative in Michigan's Upper Peninsula has always promoted interfaith connections - and America's top Muslim Imam brought just that message to Marquette, MI.
Thies video is the first of several with excerpts from a heart-felt and candid conversaion between northern Michigan residents (most Christians) and U.S. Muslim leader Imam Hassan Qazwini , head of the Islamic Center of America on Oct. 22, 2008 at the Lutheran Campus Ministry (LCM) Lothlrien House in Marquette, Michigan.
Northern Michigan University (NMU) Health " Nutrition Professor Mohey Mowafy (above left) of Marquette introduced Imam Hassan Qazwini to an eager audience of mostly Christians for a living room chat.
Imam Qazwini answered a wide range of questions including the murder of many of his family members in Iraq, the War in Iraq, hunting, interfaith environment projects and common perceptions and misconceptions between religions. (Photo by Greg Peterson)
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Imam Hassan Qazwini:
"I was born in Iraq (1964) in a city called Karbala. It's a holy city in Iraq. After that I went to Kuwait and then to Iran. (studied in Iran). In 1992 I came to the United States."
"Up until I came to the United States in 1992, I knew there were Christians in Iraq but I never had any interaction with Christians. I never had any interaction with Jews in Iraq. I lived my own inner world. In Karbala, everybody is Muslim."
"There were Christians, there were Jews and obviously other denominations in Iraq, but I lived my own inner world. In Karbala, everybody is Muslim, so I really did not have any interaction beyond my little world."
"It was in the United States when I have my first encounter with non-Muslims."
Iman Hassan Qazwini spoke candidaly to about 25 people at the Lutheran Campus Ministry home in Marquette. In one of several lighter moments, Imam Qazwini urged everyone to see the new Oliver Stone movie "W" about President George W. Bush. (Photos by Greg Peterson)
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Imam Hassan Qazwini told a story about riding in a car with his brother in California and stopping into a busy Christian church - and discovering that all religions believe the concept of love:
He said to Muslims - Jesus is as respected and revered as Mohammad.
Imam Hassan Qazwini said all religions and peoples basically "hold the same values - the same beliefs. "
"We passed by a church in a city called West Covina. So I see a church, it was Sunday, it was a church and the parking lot was full. Probably there was over 300 to 400 cars. So I asked my brother ‘What was going on here?' He said the pastor is giving a sermon."
"I said ‘Can we go?' He says ‘What?' I said ‘Can we go in?' He said ‘you want to go in, really?' I said ‘Yes really.' He says - he wanted to say, he didn't say - out of respect - he wanted to say: ‘Are you out of your mind?' But he didn't say that." (Laughter from audience)
"He said ‘Are you sure you really want to go inside the church?'
I said ‘Yes.' He said "What do you do?' I said ‘Come on, I'm not going to covert to Christianity. What's going on here?" (laughter) I said ‘I have a chance to see what does the pastor have to say when he speaks to this congregation.'
"I know what I tell my, what I say to my congregation What I preach to my congregation. I want to see what he says. So we went in and it was a beautiful church and the pastor was speaking. There was at least 400 to 500 people listening."
"And I listened but at that time my English was not that good. My brother was occasionally translating."
"But, all I heard him talking about was love. Jesus loving you. You love Jesus. And about the concept of love. So as he's talking I am listening."
"I said to myself ‘Look, in our religion we also talk about love."
"Muslims believe that God has 99 names. And one of his names is Al-Wadud. And Al-Wadud is "The Loving One."
"I said to myself ‘Look almost everything he is talking about is there in my religion.' And how similar we look. And for every word he says quoting Jesus. I have a word to quote from Mohammad. As Muslims, Jesus to us - he is a prophet as well."
"He (Jesus Christ) is as respected as Mohammad and as revered as Mohammad because we Muslims believe there are five superior messengers - Mohammad, Jesus, Moses, Noah and Abraham."
"So we place Jesus almost in the same place - or status - as we place Mohammad."
"In my mind as I am listening (to the Christian pastor) These words he was uttering are resonating in my mind. And reflecting my own faith system."
An Iman of Many Gestures: However the biggest gesture from Imam Hassan Qazwini was a message of love, peace, respect and common ground to all the World's major religions. (Photos by Greg Peterson)
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"When we do not see each other, when we do not interact with each other. We think of each other - that we are weird. I think you are weird. You may think that I am weird."
"You may thing that I harbor some very weird thoughts. I could be a very weird person. I could be someone who does not think like you think. And probably I would have the same thought about you."
"But when we meet, and we mingle, and we exchange thoughts, we find how striking our similarities are."
"Be Muslims, Christians, Jews or what else - non-denominational - basically we hold the same values - the same beliefs. And we worship God with different tongues and different languages and different styles - but the direction is the same."
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Related Links:
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Mosque photo courtesy the Islamic Center of America website
Imam Hassan Qazwini , head of the Islamic Center of America
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Critic of Imam Hassan Qazwini:
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Wikipedia article on Karbala, Iraq:
Wikipedia article on "People from Karbala" (Iraq):
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Muslim 99 names for God: Al-Wadud is"The Loving One" :
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Articles about Muslims " Quran : Muslims believe there are five superior messengers - Mohammad, Jesus, Moses, Noah and Abraham:
http://www.shiatv.net/search_result.php?search_id=Blessing
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Imam Hassan Qazwini NPR interview May 12, 2005 on opening of new Islamic Center of America Mosque in Dearborn - the largest in the U.S. ( Recording of NPR interview )
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Photo courtesy NMU website
Mohey Mowafy
NMU Health " Nutrition Professor
906-249-9133 (hm)
906-227-2366 (wk)
Professor of Health, Physical Education and Recreation
201C Physical Education Instructional Facility
Began teaching at NMU in 1976
mmowafy@nmu.edu
NMU Health " Nutrition Professor Mohey Mowafy is member of speakers bureau with talks on biodiversity:
Mohey Mowafy, a 63-year-old Northern Michigan University professor, brought 32 students to the Democratic Party rally with former Pres. Bill Clinton " an effort to recruit Rudy Giuliani into presidential bid:
Meet NMU Professors:
NMU President's Council " Prof. Mohey Mowafy:
Northern Michigan University Professor Mohey Mowafy on health and nutrion:
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Lutheran Campus Ministry - Marquette, MI
http://www.nmulutherans.org
Rev. Jon Magnuson, founder " executive director of the non-profit Cedar Tree Institute , welcomes Imam Hassan Qazwini to the Lutheran Campus Ministry house in Marquette, MI.
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05:33:44 06/22/08
Fly a kite, picnic: Plan Lake Superior Day July 20, 2008 by Lake Superior Binational Forum
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Make your Lake Superior Day plans now: July 20, 2008 celebrate the world's largest, cleanest freshwater lake - annual event sponsored by Lake Superior Binational Forum, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Environment Canada
Celebrate Lake Superior Day on Sunday, July 20, 2008
What’s better than a July picnic on a hot, sandy beach next to the world’s largest freshwater lake?
A picnic and a Lake Superior celebration!
Individuals and families, churches and kids, communities and clubs, and businesses and industries hold activities or events that celebrate Lake Superior Day, held annually on the third Sunday in July (July 20 this year).
Can you do something that symbolizes your own connection to the lake on that day?
Lake Superior Day was started in the early 1990s to highlight the importance of this great water body to the basin’s environment and economy.
The Lake Superior Binational Forum promotes this basin-wide event to highlight the special connections people have to this unique world treasure.
Many events have been held to educate or entertain people about lake issues, special places, and recreational opportunities.
You are invited to hold activities or events that celebrate this world-class lake.
This year the theme is “Let’s Go Fly a Kite!” to symbolize clean energy sources such as wind power.
Organize your group or family to fly a kite at your favorite beach or park on July 20!
Click on this link for more information about flying a kite on Lake Superior Day .
Families fly kites made from homemade materials off the deck of the Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth.
Photo (above) from Minnesota Sea Grant Dec. 2007 newsletter: Making a Great Lake Superior by Sharon Moen.
Photo by Marie Zhuikov
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Last year almost 45 groups and communities participated in some way, including special events such as dragon boat races, beach clean ups, musical concerts, library displays, church services, and signed proclamations that designate the third Sunday in July as Lake Superior Day.
Contact the Lake Superior Binational Forum to receive free color postcards and buttons to give to your Lake Superior supporters at your event.
The Forum's website offers ideas about how the day was celebrated last year and what you can do to celebrate Lake Superior. Click on “Current Projects.” New information is posted regularly.
For more information email organizers - or call (715) 682-1489
University of Minnesota Sea Grant Foundation photo
South Carolina Map - Geology.com
Lake Superior's surface covers 31,700 square miles, or about the size of South Carolina.
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The lake is so big it could hold all the water from the other four Great Lakes, plus three more lakes the size of Lake Erie.
The Johnson-Sea-Link deep-sea scientific research submersible
Photo courtesy the Public Library of Science journal via Wikipedia
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In 1985, scientists using a submersible vessel descended for the first time to the deepest part, which is near the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Lake Superior ’s deepest point is 1,332 feet, which would almost cover the Sears Tower in Chicago, one of the world’s tallest buildings .
Sears Tower photo by Western Michigan University student Meghan Hurley of Glenview, Illinois.
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The lake stretches approximately 350 miles from west to east, and 160 miles north to south. If you could travel along the entire Lake Superior shoreline, you would travel 1,826 miles, or the distance from Duluth to San Francisco.
The Lake Superior Binational Forum is a multi-sector stakeholder group of U.S. and Canadian volunteers that work together to provide input to governments about lake issues and educate basin residents about ways to protect and restore the lake.
Members come from Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ontario.
Northland College Ashland, Wisconsin photos courtesy:
Northland College, Liturgical Environments, Wayne Nasi Construction
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The Forum is located in the United States at Northland College in Ashland, WI, and funded in the U.S. by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes National Program Office.
The Canadian Forum office is at EcoSuperior in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and funded by Environment Canada.
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Top Ten Ways You Can Protect Lake Superior Every Day
Wisconsin DNR Map
1. Install water saving devices on your kitchen and bathroom faucets and showerheads. Purchase these at local hardware and building supply stores--most cost between one dollar and nine dollars.
2. Replace regular light bulbs with energy efficient bulbs. Burning an energy bulb requires less energy, which means power plants burn less coal and that produces less mercury in the air.
3. Never burn garbage, especially plastics or tires, in burn barrels on your property. These produce more toxins in the air than an industrial incinerator. Not only do you breathe these toxic fumes as the garbage burns, but the pollutants enter the lake when it rains.
4. Instead of burning garbage, recycle or compost what you can and throw away the rest.
5. Take your lawn and household hazardous materials to area Cleansweeps collection days in Ashland, Bayfield, Douglas, and Iron counties this summer. Call the Northwest Regional Planning Commission at 715-635-2197 for dates and locations of collections in your county.
6. Put your lawn on a chemical-free diet. Poisonous lawn herbicides and pesticides seep into waterways that end up in the lake and soil, which can hurt your family and neighbors. Lawn chemicals can also sicken or kill birds and pets. Bring these kinds of chemicals to a Cleansweep event where they are disposed of safely.
7. Never pour any liquids into a storm drain. Storm drains empty untreated liquids into a nearby river, stream, or Lake Superior.
8. When you’re boating or fishing, inspect your boat and trailer and remove any plants and animals before leaving the water body. Drain water from the motor, live well, bilge, and transom before leaving the water body. Never release live bait fish in the water or live earthworms on the land or water.
9. When planning landscaping or gardening activities, use plants that are native to the region. Consult with garden centers or the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute for a list of the best native plants for this area. Learn what non-native species look like and additional prevention tips by contacting your local state or federal natural resource management agency and ask for information and identification material for non-native species.
10. Love it! When you care about something as grand as Lake Superior, you’ll feel good about making sure it stays a Great Lake.
For more info contact:
Lissa Radke
US Coordinator
Lake Superior Binational Forum
Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute at Northland College
Ashland, WI
54806
715-682-1489
FAX 715-682-1218
"Water is life, and the quality of water determines the quality of life." --Lake Superior Binational Forum vision statement
Lake Superior Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in July!
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Interfaith projects to protect Lake Superior are discussed in this video by:
Rev. Tesshin Paul Lehmberg
Head Priest
Lake Superior Zendo
Zen Buddhist Temple
Rev. Jon Magnuson, LSBF board member
Lutheran Campus Ministry
Northern Michigan University
Marquette, Michigan
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Supers:
South Carolina map courtesy Geology.com
The Johnson-Sea-Link deep-sea scientific research submersible
Photo courtesy the Public Library of Science journal via Wikipedia
Sears Tower photo by WMU student Meghan Hurley
Minnesota Sea Grant photo by Marie Zhuikov
Families fly kites made from homemade materials off the deck of the Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth
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For more info contact:
Lissa Radke
US Coordinator
Lake Superior Binational Forum
Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute at Northland College
Ashland, WI
54806
715-682-1489
FAX 715-682-1218
Lake Superior Binational Forum
http://www.superiorforum.info
Lake Superior Binational Forum vision statement:
"Water is life, and the quality of water determines the quality of life."
Lake Superior Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in July
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Related websites:
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Lake Superior Binational Forum
http://www.superiorforum.info
“Flying a kite” on Lake Superior Day pdf:
http://www.superiorforum.info/uploads/Kite_Poster.pdf
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Wisconsin DNR page on Lake Superior:
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/nature/habitat/lakesuperior.htm
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University of Minnesota Sea Grant Foundation
http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/
Minnesota Sea Grant Dec. 2007 newsletter: Making a Great Lake Superior by Sharon Moen
http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/newsletter/2007/12/making_a_great_lake_superior.html
Minnesota Sea Grant kite flying photo by Marie Zhuikov
Families fly kites made from homemade materials off the deck of the Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth.
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Northland College Ashland, Wisconsin photos courtesy:
Northland College:
http://www.northland.edu/Northland
Liturgical Environments:
http://www.liturgicalenvironments.com
http://www.liturgicalenvironments.com/Images/Leaded%20Glass%20Contemporary/LdNORTHLAND-COLLEGE.jpg
Wayne Nasi Construction:
http://www.wnasi.com
http://www.wnasi.com/images/portfolio/school_northland.jpg
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EcoSuperior Environmental Programs:
http://www.ecosuperior.com
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Environment Canada:
http://www.ec.gc.ca/
Telephone
1-819-997-2800
Canada only:
1-800-668-6767
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Johnson-Sea-Link - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Sea_Link
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution:
http://www.hboi.edu
Submersible & crew info:
http://www.hboi.edu/marineops/jsl_crew.html
The Johnsen Lab page of Johnson-Sea-Link
http://www.biology.duke.edu/johnsenlab/gallery/insidechamber.html
Johnson-Sea-Link, deep-sea scientific research submersible built by The Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution in 1971.
Submersible was designed by Edwin Albert Link, friend of Harbor Branch founder Seward Johnson.
Image first published March 15, 2005 in the Public Library of Science journal.
Source: Gulf of Mexico Cruise SJ0107
The Public Library of Science journal website states that the content of all PLoS journals is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license.
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South Carolina Map - Geology.com
http://geology.com/state-map/maps/south-carolina-state-map.gif
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Sears Tower photo by Western Michigan University student Meghan Hurley of Glenview, Illinois:
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~m4hurley/searstower2_skyscraper_1.jpg
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~m4hurley
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01:48:09 06/19/08
Earth Healing, EPA Earth Day Challenge: Erie, PA residents protect Lake Erie by turning in medicines at Pennsylvania Sea Grant collection
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View of Erie, Pennsylvania from Presque Isle
Photo by Pat Noble, WikiProject Erie
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Pennsylvania Sea Grant Keep Unwanted Medicine out of Lake Erie Medicine Collection Day in Erie, Pennsylvania on April 26, 2008
All medicine collection photos in this story are by Anna McCartney, Erie Times-News in Education
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Erie, Pennsylvania residents turn in about 600 pounds worth of medicine and personal care products, over 73,000 pills at the April 2008 Sea Grant Pharmaceutical collection during EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge
(Erie, Pennsylvania) - Erie, Pennsylvania area residents dropped off about 600 pounds worth of medicine and personal care products on Saturday, April 26, 2008 during the Pennsylvania Sea Grant pharmaceutical collection.
Showing their love for Lake Erie, residents brought in over 73,000 pills and a large amount of controlled substances like narcotic pain medication, according to Sara Gris, Pennsylvania Sea Grant coastal outreach specialist.
The collection was held at the Cruise Boat Terminal Building behind the Memorial Library named for Dr. Raymond Blasco in Erie, Pennsylvania.
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Keep Unwanted Medicine out of Lake Erie Medicine Collection results:
87 participants
Collected 120 gallons of materials
5 of the 120 gallons were controlled substances
About 600 pounds worth of medicine and personal care products
Controlled category II:
1,031 pills
130 milliliters of liquids
Controlled category III, IV, V:
1,397 pills
1,180 milliliters of liquids
Controlled Unidentified:
1,410 pills
102 milliliters of liquids
4 pieces of gum
6 towelettes
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Controlled total: 3,839 pills
Non-Controlled total: 69,232 pills
Personal Care products: 384
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The Keep Unwanted Medicine out of Lake Erie Medicine Collection Day was held as part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge .
The challenge involved over 100 pharmaceutical and electronic waste collections in hundreds of communities across eight states in the Great Lakes Basin.
Ohio EPA Map of polluted Lake Erie in 1970s
Across America, the reputation of Lake Erie - especially in the 1960s and 1970s - was that of an extremely polluted and even dead lake.
By all accounts, residents and officials have done a great job restoring Lake Erie - where fishing, boating and swimming are popular.
Lake Erie photo (above) courtesy Jim's Photos Unixdoctor
View of Lake Erie from Cranch Park in Erie, PA
Photo by Pat Noble, WikiProject Erie
EPA Graphic
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The EPA Lake Erie Lakewide Management Plan has been a big force in the recovery of Lake Erie.
EPA/Bay City Times/Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab Photo
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In recent years, officials have been fighting the Zebra Muscle problem in Lake Erie. It's been a love/hate relationship as the muscles have done good and bad things to the lake.
One goal of the pharmaceutical collection was to prevent medicine s from being discharged into Lake Erie and to make sure the drugs don't end up in other surrounding lakes and streams.
Goal of medicine collection is to protect rivers, lakes and streams like Cascade Creek in Erie, PA
Photo by Pat Noble, WikiProject Erie
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Many wastewater treatment plants around the world are not designed to remove the cocktail of chemicals after the drugs are flushed or dumped down the drain - and the drugs can leach out of landfills into the groundwater.
Pictured above are Erie Police Dept. officers. Law enforcement officers are required by federal law at collections of controlled substances
Students and pharmacists from the LECOM School of Pharmacy counted and sorted drugs during the medicine collection
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Some of the unsung heros at pharmaceuticals collections are the police and pharmacists - without whom the collections would not be possible.
At all locations, including Erie, Law enforcement and pharmacists were on hand to accept the pharmaceuticals.
Based on experience, organizers discovered the turnout was bigger when residents don't have to preregister.
Of the 87 residents participating in the collection, 61 did not preregister.
Sara Gris, Pennsylvania Sea Grant coastal outreach specialist (pictured above on the right; and Marti Martz, also a Pennsylvania Sea Grant coastal outreach specialist, and many others worked hard to make the collection a success.
Over 70,000 pills were turned as Erie, PA area residents showed their love for Lake Erie by participating in the Keep Unwanted Medicine out of Lake Erie Medicine Collection Day
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And similar to the other collections, most Erie participants were older adults as 89 percent were over the age of 46.
Assisting in the proper disposal of the medicines was ECS & R - Environmental Coordination Services and Recycling in Cochranton, Pennsylvania.
Medicine Collection Sponsors:
The organizers of the Erie collection included Pennsylvania Sea Grant, the City of Erie, Lake Erie-Allegheny Earth Force, LECOM school of Pharmacy, and Erie Times-News in Education.
Organizers partnered with the WJET-TV Channel 24 Erie Green Campaign.
WSEE TV provided their news story for use in a video about the collection.
The Pennsylvania Sea Grant received a grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Great Lakes map highlighting Lake Erie by Lawrence W. Ellerbruch, Northern Michigan University
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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.
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For more info contact:
Sara Gris
Pennsylvania Sea Grant
814-217-9011
Unwanted Medications
301 Peninsula Drive, Suite 3
Erie, PA
Marti Martz
Coastal Outreach Specialist
Pennsylvania Sea Grant
814-217-9015
814-217-9021 (fax)
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Erie collection organizers received assistance from EPA Region 3 (with assistance from Region 5), Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, and the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
Organizers thank following organizations who were part of the team that make the collection program a success:
Community Health Net
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
Environmental Coordination Services and Recycling (ECS%R)
Erie County Environmental Coalition
Erie Center on Health and Aging
Erie County Health Department
Erie Housing Authority
Erie Port Authority
Erie Wastewater Treatment Facility
Local Pharmacies
Greater Erie Community Action Committee (GECAC)
Hamot Medical Center
Lake Erie Sierra Club
Local Senior centers
Pennsylvania Lake Erie Watershed Association
Presque Isle Audubon
State Board of Pharmacy
USDEA local agent
Visiting Nurses Association
WJET-TV 24 Erie Green Campaign
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Related websites:
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Pennsylvania Sea Grant:
http://www.pserie.psu.edu/seagrant/seagindex.htm
In November 2006, Sara Gris joined Pennsylvania Sea Grant as a Coastal Outreach Specialist:
http://www.pserie.psu.edu/seagrant/about/grise.htm
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EPA Region 5 Office in Chicago, Illinois
http://www.epa.gov/region5
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ECS%R - Environmental Coordination Services & Recycling
3237 US Highway 19
Cochranton, PA
16314
814-425-7773
814-425-3201 (fax)
ECS%R 24 hour emergency response call:
877-902-2452
email:
info@ecsr.net
http://www.ecsr.net/
http://www.ecsr.net/environmental.html
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WJET-TV 24 Erie Green Campaign:
http://yourerie.com/
http://yourerie.com/content/green
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WSEE TV Erie. PA
http://www.wsee.tv/
http://www.wsee.tv/news.php
http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=WSEE01
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City of Erie
http://ci.erie.pa.us/
City of Erie flag/seal are courtesy the English Wikipedia Graphics Lab & Cronholm144
Erie Police Dept.
http://ci.erie.pa.us/Departments/PoliceDepartment/tabid/72/Default.aspx
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Lake Erie-Allegheny Earth Force
http://www.earthforce.org/section/offices/lea
http://www.earthforce.org/section/offices/lea/leasuccess_stories
http://www.earthforce.org/section/offices/lea/leacontact_us
http://www.earthforce.org/section/offices/lea/leaschools
http://www.earthforce.org/
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LECOM School of Pharmacy in Erie, PA
Photo by Pat Noble, WikiProject Erie
LECOM school of Pharmacy
http://www.lecom.edu/school_pharmacy.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LECOM
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Erie Times-News newspaper building in Erie, PA
Photo by Pat Noble, WikiProject Erie
Erie Times-News in Education
http://www.goerie.com/
http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=ETN
Erie Times-News front page April 23, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie_Times-News
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Erie, PA photos by Pat Noble
Erie, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie
Erie photos courtesy Pat Noble aka Pnoble805, a member of WikiProject Erie
Photos include Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry monument, Liberty Park's Pepsi Amphitheater, Times-News building, skyline of Erie, Pennsylvania as seen from Presque Isle, Cranch Park, west branch of Cascade Creek under a small bridge at Frontier Park, and the LECOM medical school.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pnoble805
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pnoble805#My_work_on_WikiProject_Erie
City of Erie flag/seal are courtesy the English Wikipedia Graphics Lab & Cronholm144
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Lake Erie Photos courtesy Jim's Photos Unixdoctor
http://www.unixdoctor.com/gallery/niagara/Lake_Erie_02
http://www.unixdoctor.com/gallery/albums.php
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Lake Erie map graphic courtesy Lawrence W. Ellerbruch, Northern Michigan University
http://ellerbruch.nmu.edu/classes/cs255f03/cs255students/ateraves/P6/tutorial2.html
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Shallow Lake Erie photo courtesy Environment Canada:
http://www.ec.gc.ca/
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Lake Erie polluted photo courtesy Ohio EPA
http://www.epa.state.oh.us/oleo/reports/leqi/leqi2004/pollutionsources/Pollutionsourcespic.jpg
http://www.epa.state.oh.us/
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EPA: Lake Erie Management Plan reports:
http://www.epa.gov/greatlakes/erie.html
http://www.epa.gov/lakeerie/index.html
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EPA - Zebra Mussels photo info:
http://www.epa.gov/grtlakes/image/viz_iss4.html
Zebra mussels washed up on beach, Lake Erie
Bay City Times (courtesy Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab)
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White House Office of Drug Control Policy:
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/
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Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative
http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org/
Call:
906-401-0109
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Cedar Tree Institute
http://www.cedartreeinstitute.org/
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Earth 911:
http://earth911.org/
http://earth911.org/blog/2008
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Interfaith graphics by Justice St. Rain (Baha'i Community)
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
Photos of the April 2008 pharmaceutical collection in Erie, Pennsylvania
Photos by Anna McCartney, Erie Times-News in Education
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22:04:33 06/09/08
Earth Healing: Syracuse, NY residents turn in TVs to Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency
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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
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(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
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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
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Related Links:
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Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency (OCRRA) recycling page
http://www.ocrra.org/recycling_c3.asp
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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
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The Food Bank of Central New York
http://www.foodbankcny.org/
Portrait of Hunger:
http://www.foodbankcny.org/default.aspx?PageID=752
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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
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EPA Region 5 Office in Chicago, Illinois
http://www.epa.gov/region5
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Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative
http://www.EarthHealingInitiative.org
Call:
906-401-0109
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Cedar Tree Institute
http://www.CedarTreeInstitute.org
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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
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More photos from OCRRA TV Collection:
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14:36:15 06/06/08
Earth Healing: EPA funds June 21 RSVP e-waste collection in Hancock, MI
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Western U.P. electronic waste collections set: June 21 in Houghton and Keweenaw counties; July 12 in Baraga County; dates for other areas TBA
The Western Upper Peninsula Electronics Recycling Program, a project of the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), provides households with an environmentally and economically sound solution to disposing of electronic waste.
Residents of Baraga, Gogebic, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon Counties, who have generated electronic waste in their household, may bring their items to e-waste collection sites on the specified collection dates in their area.
The initiative received grants and/or other assistance from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The northern Michigan collection is connected to the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge that involves over 100 projects in eight states across the Great Lakes Basin.
More than a dozen previous collections since 2005 have garnered nearly 48 tons of e-waste from over 850 participants.
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2005: 8 collections, 26.5 tons
2006: 4 collections, 15 tons
2007: 1 collection, 6.25 tons
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Commonly called e-waste, electronics waste includes old and broken computers, cell phones, TVs and other items found in many homes.
The collection for Houghton and Keweenaw counties will be on June 21 from 9 am to noon at the health department offices in Hancock.
An e-waste collection will be held in Baraga County on July 12 from 10 a.m. to noon at a site to be announced.
Collection events for other Copper Country counties will be announced in the future.
The cost to drop off e-waste is 10 cents per pound.
The Western Upper Peninsula Electronics Recycling Program will accept a wide range of e-waste during collection events including cell phones, computer and related equipment like laptops, monitors, towers aka central processing units, printers, scanners, keyboards and computer mice
Other e-waste accepted includes stereo equipment, televisions, VCR and DVD players, copiers, cordless telephones, fax machines, fluorescent light bulbs that are 4 to 8 feet in length, microwave ovens and batteries including alkaline, nickel cadmium, lead acid, lithium, mercury.
Organizers said it estimated that between 1997 and 2007, nearly 500 million personal computers will became obsolete. That's almost 2 computers for every person living in the United States.
TV's and computer monitors contain an average of 4 pounds of lead, as well as other toxins.
According to Closing the Circle News, the manufacture of one computer consumes 529 pounds of fossil fuels, 49 pounds of chemicals, and 3,307 pounds of water.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency projects that nationwide nearly 250 million computers will become obsolete in the next five years.
For additional information contact the Western Upper Peninsula Electronics Recycling Program or RSVP at 906-482-7382.
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
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Related websites:
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Western Upper Peninsula District Health Department:
http://www.wupdhd.org
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e-waste info:
http://www.wupdhd.org/rsvp/e-waste.html
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RSVP:
http://www.wupdhd.org/rsvp/index.html
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Contact info:
Western Upper Peninsula District Health Department and the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program
540 Depot Street
Hancock, MI
49930
Barbara Maronen
906-482-7382
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EPA Region 5 Office in Chicago, Illinois
http://www.epa.gov/region5
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Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative
http://www.EarthHealingInitiative.org
906-401-0109
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Cedar Tree Institute
http://www.CedarTreeInstitute.org
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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
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15:35:53 05/24/08
Earth Healing: E-waste, pharmaceutical collections like EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge protect ground & drinking water
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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.
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A few examples:
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In Milwaukee: 32 tons of electronic waste and 3.5 tons of pharmaceuticals were turned in.
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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.
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In Traverse City: Over 28,750 pounds (over 12.5 tons) of computers and other e-waste was collected.
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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
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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
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EPA Region 5 Office in Chicago, Illinois
http://www.epa.gov/region5
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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
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For more information on the electronics collection contact:
City of Milwaukee Dept of Public Works
Rick Meyers, Recycling Manager
414-286-2334
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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
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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)
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Milwaukee Metro Sewerage District:
http://www.mmsd.com
Milorganite - How do we make this stuff?
http://www.mmsd.com/news/detail.cfm?id=114
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Milwaukee pdf flyer - scroll down pdf to bottom to see mini-version:
http://www.mmsd.com/images/programs/MedicineCollection_041908.pdf
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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
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Related information/websites:
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Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative:
http://www.EarthHealingInitiative.org
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Milwaukee Earth Healing Initiative page:
http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org/milwaukee.html
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Final EPA Flow of the River blog post:
http://flowoftheriver.epa.gov/greatlakeschallenge/2008/05/so-long-and-tha.html
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Media News Wire:
http://media-newswire.com/release_1064289.html
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Freedom Ring Blog - Milwaukee:
http://freedomeden.blogspot.com/2008/04/milwaukees-great-lakes-2008-earth-day.html
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EPA #1 results press release:
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/fa96ab2aafc467688525743a003c9efa?OpenDocument
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EPA says challenge a big success: Goals met and exceeded
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/epas-great-lakes-earth-day,367679.shtml
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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
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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.
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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.
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13:29:37 05/22/08
Milwaukee Loves Lake Michigan: Residents turn in 32 tons of electronics; 3.5 tons of pharmaceuticals in EPA Earth Day challenge
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City of Milwaukee DPW collects about 32 tons of electronics and Milwaukee Metro Sewerage District garners 3.5 tons of pharmaceuticals in EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge
Milwaukee area residents turned in 32 tons of electronic waste and 3.5 tons of pharmaceuticals during two events in EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge
There were two collection events in the Milwaukee area as part of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
About 3.5 tons of pharmaceuticals were turned by the public during the Milwaukee area’s Medicine Collection Day on Saturday, April 19, 2008 sponsored by the Milwaukee Metro Sewerage District (MMSD).
Meanwhile - the Milwaukee DPW organized an electronics collection on Saturday, April 26, 2008 that garner about 32 tons of electronics.
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Electronics collection:
E-Waste coillection photos by John Perrecone, EPA
Hundreds of Milwaukee residents dropped off electronics as nearly 32 tons of e-waste was collected during the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
The Milwaukee Department of Public Works (DPW) kept things organized and flowing smoothly as cars lined up to drop off electronics for recycling.
The collection site off-loaded an average of three cars per minute.
The electronics are often called e-waste or e-scrap.
Officials say 706 cars dropped off electronics at the collection site located in a large parking lot south of the Italian Community Center just west of the Summerfest Grounds.
This collection site was within eyeshot of Lake Michigan near the Henry Maier Festival Park better known as the Summerfest Grounds where the world's largest music festival is held.
The one-day collection event - organized by the City of Milwaukee DPW - was held on April 26, 2008
More than two thirds of the collection involved computers and related equipment.
The DPW collected 643 computer monitors weighing over ten tons - that’s 21,188 pounds of computer monitors.
And - residents dropped off 338 televisions weighing nearly 13, 200 pounds - that’s over 5 tons of TVs from city of Milwaukee homes.
Other computer related equipment turned in included nearly 15,100 pounds of personal computers - that’s over 7 tons of PCs alone.
Nearly 5 tons of computer printers were turned in - that adds up to 9,148 pounds of printers.
Eight percent of the collection - nearly 5,000 pounds - involved miscellaneous e-waste like cell phones and other electronic items.
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Equipment type Pounds Percent by Weight
Monitors 21,188 33% (643 computer monitors recycled)
PCs 15,098 24%
TVs 13,185 21% (338 televisions recycled)
Printers 9,148 14%
Miscellaneous 4,878 8%
TOTAL 63,497 100%
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The challenge was important because scrap electronics are the fastest growing segment of municipal solid waste stream.
Electronic waste or e-scrap may contain hazardous materials including lead, mercury and heavy metals that can pose a risk to human and environmental health through the release of toxins into the air and water.
During a press conference, EPA, DPW and other Milwaukee officials said the recycling of electronics is needed to avoid unwanted pollution and divert waste from the landfills.
EPA officials called the challenge a great success - adding it's a win-win situation for the public and for the Great Lakes ecosystem.
The challenge was “an easy for everyone to take part in protecting the Great Lakes.”
The EPA awarded grants to numerous cities participating in the challenge including the city of Milwaukee.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said the "recycling televisions and computers reduces the risks of toxins contained in these products being released into our air and water."
Event partners included 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.
The contact is Rick Meyers with the City of Milwaukee Dept of Public Works. Call Meyers at 414-286-2334
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Pharmaceutical collection:
Pharmaceutical collection phtos by Susan Boehme
There was a second successful challenge collection event in the Milwaukee area.
About 3.5 tons of pharmaceuticals were turned during the Milwaukee area’s Medicine Collection Day sponsored by the Milwaukee Metro Sewerage District (MMSD).
The name of the pharmaceutical collection was "A prescription for clean water and safe kids.”
In just four hours, more than 2,000 people delivered 3.5 tons of unused medication to collection sites in Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, and Washington Counties for the third annual Medicine Collection Day.
The event is held to help protect our rivers and Lake Michigan, prevent childhood poisonings, and reduce substance abuse.
Never flush or pour old medicine down the drain.
Wastewater treatment plants are not designed to remove them from wastewater.
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Participants Non-controlled Controlled
Substances Substances
Milwaukee County 1,080 4,487 lbs 36,831 (Pills, Patches & Bottles)
Ozaukee County 365 1,022 lbs 3 (30 gallon drums)
Racine County 523 761 lbs 50 lbs
Washington County 380 743 lbs 83 lbs
Totals: 2,348 7,013 lbs
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Law enforcement destroys controlled substances, which include: narcotic pain killers, cough syrup with codeine, and tranquilizers.
Veolia Environmental Services incinerates non-controlled substances at a federally licensed incinerator. Examples of non-controlled substances include: blood pressure medicine, aspirin, and cholesterol medication.
The medicine collection program thanks the following partners:
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.
For more information on the medicine collection call MMSD Public Information Manager Bill Graffin at 1-414-225-2077
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The MMSD distributed nearly 200,000 postcards promoting the event that has been widely publicized by area media.
The Earth Healing Initiative distributed the final 5,000 cards to interfaith contacts in the Milwaukee area.
The Earth Healing Initiative thanks our local interfaith liaison in Milwaukee.
He's Rev. Brad Brown, campus pastor at Marquette University Lutheran Campus Ministry - in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The Milwaukee events were among about 100 projects involving hundreds of communities across eight states around the Great Lakes basin that participated in the EPA Earth Day 2008 challenge.
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 Earth Healing Initiative assisted 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" said EHI founder Rev Jon Magnuson of Marquette Michigan
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Supers:
Bharat Mathur
EPA deputy regional administrator
EPA Region 5 Office in Chicago
Tom Barrett
Milwaukee Mayor
Rick Meyers
Director/City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works (DPW)
EPA Milwaukee collection Photos by Jon Perrecone and Susan Boehme
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For more information on the electronics collection contact:
City of Milwaukee Dept of Public Works
Rick Meyers, Recycling Manager
414-286-2334
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Milwaukee Dept. Of Public Works
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
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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)
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Milwaukee Metro Sewerage District
Milorganite - How do we make this stuff?
http://www.mmsd.com/news/detail.cfm?id=114
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Milwaukee pdf flyer - scroll down pdf to bottom to see mini-version:
http://www.mmsd.com/images/programs/MedicineCollection_041908.pdf
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Related information/websites:
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Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative
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Final EPA Flow of the River blog post:
http://flowoftheriver.epa.gov/greatlakeschallenge/2008/05/so-long-and-tha.html
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Media News Wire:
http://media-newswire.com/release_1064289.html
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Freedom Ring Blog - Milwaukee:
http://freedomeden.blogspot.com/2008/04/milwaukees-great-lakes-2008-earth-day.html
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EPA #1 results press release:
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/fa96ab2aafc467688525743a003c9efa?OpenDocument
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EPA says challenge a big success: Goals met and exceeded
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/epas-great-lakes-earth-day,367679.shtml
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WISN TV Milwaukee:
http://www.wisn.com/aboutwisn12/15961138/detail.html
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EPA Region 5 Office in Chicago, Illinois
http://www.epa.gov/region5
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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
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Midwest Computer Recyclers:
http://www.deadcomputers.com
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WISN News Channel 12 in Milwaukee is one of the sponsors:
http://www.wisn.com
WISN produced a 15 second PSA about the event
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Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful
Joe Wilson, executive director
414-272-5462, ext. 103
website:
http://www.kgmb.org/
KGMB is coordinating volunteers for event on Sat., April 26, 2008
KGMB has numerous events scheduled in near future and would like volunteers.
http://www.kgmb.org/volunteer.html
Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful, Inc. (KGMB) is an award winning, private, non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization. Established in 1983, it has been affiliated with Keep America Beautiful, Inc. since 1985.
KGMB has a strong history of responsiveness, renewal and innovation. KGMB uses a unique combination of community improvement programs like Great American Cleanup and education to accomplish its goals.
KGMB Goals
KGMB works in partnership with its communities to address:
neighborhood cleanup and beautification
waste reduction, reuse, and recycling
environmental education for children
environmental forums
renewable and efficient energy use
resource conservation
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KGMB Conact info:
http://www.kgmb.org/contact.html
KGMB facility features an in-house waste reduction education center.
Educational tours can be arranged by phone:
414-272-5462
email:
education@kgmb.org
KGMB links:
http://www.greeningmilwaukee.org
http://www.everydrop.org
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Milwaukee Earth Healing Initiative page:
http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org/milwaukee.html
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Earth Healing Initiative Milwaukee interfaith liaison:
Rev. Brad Brown, campus pastor
Marquette University Lutheran Campus Ministry
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
414-288-3691
email:
bradley.brown@mu.edu
Pastor Brown's blog:
http://www.mulutherans.com/index.php
Marquette University Lutheran Campus Ministry (LCM) website:
http://www.mulutherans.com
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Marquette University Ministry
AMU 236
1442 W. Wisconsin Ave. P.O. Box 1881
Milwaukee, WI
53201-1881
922 South 29th Street
Milwaukee, WI
53215
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website:
http://www.marquette.edu/um
http://www.marquette.edu/um/staff/
http://www.marquette.edu/um/worship/documents/1018107web.pdf
Phone: 414-288-6873 Fax: 414-288-3696
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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
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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.
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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.
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21:15:31 05/02/08
Spirit of the Sturgeon: Menominee Indian Tribe of WI & Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative
[LESS INFO] 11 VIEWS | ADDED 01:15:31 05/03/08
(Keshena, Wisconsin) - 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 second of several videos explaining the numerous MITW projects including teaching youth about the legend of the sturgeon and its place in tribal culture, cleaning up the reservation, replacing gang symbols with Native American art and making garbage monsters.
In part two, the non-profit interfaith Earth Healing Initiative looks at the sturgeon education classes.
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(Keshena, WI) - The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin in Keshena held massive electronic and pharmaceutical waste collections during the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge - involving over 100 projects across eight states that comprise the Great Lakes basin.
However, the tribe was creative as it added other facets to the challenge like teaching the children about its culture and the close relationship to the earth and its many lakes and streams.
All classes at the tribal school taught the students about the sturgeon, that is a vital part of Menominee legend and heritage, said Joe Awanahopay, language arts instructor at the Menominee tribal school.
Joe Awanahopay, Menominee Tribal School language arts instructor
Called the protectors 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.
Earth Week tribal school classes applied subjects like math, history and others to different aspects of the life cycle, biology, habitat, legends, current/past spawning grounds and the cultural and practical value of the sturgeon, an important fish to the Menominee people since the dawn of their tribe.
"The sturgeon are a historic importance to our people," Awanahopay said.
"Since the beginning of time, our people have relied upon the sturgeons for various reasons including for food and scraping hides." "In our legends, the sturgeon are the protectors of our wild rice," said Awanahopay of the slow growing giant fish known for its thick hide and rubbery snout whose uses and related regulations have sometimes pitted white fishermen against American Indians.
"We have been engaging the students in the culture, language, science and the social studies of what the sturgeon mean to our people."
"In the science department they have been studying the anatomy and the physiology of the sturgeon," Awanahopay said. "In the language arts department they are looking at the sturgeon habitats and what the effects of pollution are."
"In social studies they are looking at the different migrations, the geography, the path the sturgeon used to take to come to their home here - their traditional spawning grounds on the Menoninee Indian reservation," Awanahopay said. "Because of two dams that are here now south of our reservation, sturgeon are no longer able to come home here to their ancestral spawning grounds."
The tribal school students are immersed in Menominee culture and learn to speak the language and its meaning.
This was applied to the sturgeon lessons.
"In the language and culture room, I focus on the historic importance and the legends of the sturgeon and how these things were passed down from one generation to another generation and why it’s important for our youth to hang on to that," Awanahopay said.
The students learn "to look forward into the future with the knowledge of the sturgeon, but yet hang onto their spiritual and cultural heritage that is so rich."
The tribal school students have a vast reservoir of sturgeon knowledge that the elders are happy to pass on.
"We are so fortunate to have so many elders that we still work with that are able to give us this knowledge and pass it from one generation to the next, despite all of the forced assimilation and the changes in our youth, who are trying to make their way in modern society yet integrate the traditions with the technology in today’s world Awanahopay said.
Other tribal projects during the challenge included a collection of unwanted medications and e-waste at the College of Menominee Nation and the clean up of two reservation communities by tribal school students, the Menominee Teen Court Panel, and many other volunteers.
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 were 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, 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.
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.
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I'm Greg Peterson and you're watching Earth Healing TV
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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
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College of Menominee Nation:
http://www.menominee.edu
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Earth Healing Initiative Keshena, WI page:
http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org/keshena.html
Earth Healing Initiative:
http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org
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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
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University of WI Cooperative Extention wesbsite page for Menominee tribe info like schools, college:
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cty/menominee/index.html
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Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin Youth Development & Outreach
http://www.menominee-nsn.gov/healthFamily/youthDevel/youthHome.php
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Youth Development and Outreach
W3191 Fredenberg Drive
P.O. Box 910
Keshena, WI 54135
715-799-5137
715-799-5227 (Fax)
Director: Darwin Dick
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Great Lakes Inter Tribal Council
http://www.glitc.org/pages/mtw.html
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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
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Call Justice St. Rain at Interfaith resources:
1-800-326-1197
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Interfaith Resources
P.O. Box 9
511 Diamond Rd.
Heltonville, Indiana
47436
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"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
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Samuels Recycling - Green Bay, WI:
http://www.samuelsrec.com/mapmenu.htm
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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
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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
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18:22:42 04/30/08
Earth Healing Initiative & College of Menominee Nation: Great Lakes recycling
[LESS INFO] 13 VIEWS | ADDED 22:22:42 04/30/08
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.
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(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.
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I'm Greg Peterson and you're watching Earth Healing TV
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Related website about Keshena, Neopit, the College of Menominee Nation and Menominee County, WI:
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Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin official website - homepage:
http://www.menominee-nsn.gov
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MITW Tribal School website:
http://mts.bia.edu/
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College of Menominee Nation
http://www.menominee.edu
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Earth Healing Initiative Keshena, WI page:
http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org/keshena.html
Earth Healing Initiative:
http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org
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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
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University of WI Cooperative Extention wesbsite page for Menominee tribe info like schools, college:
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cty/menominee/index.html
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Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin Youth Development & Outreach
http://www.menominee-nsn.gov/healthFamily/youthDevel/youthHome.php
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Youth Development and Outreach
W3191 Fredenberg Drive
P.O. Box 910
Keshena, WI 54135
715-799-5137
715-799-5227 (Fax)
Director: Darwin Dick
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Great Lakes Inter Tribal Council
http://www.glitc.org/pages/mtw.html
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Samuels Recycling - Green Bay, WI:
http://www.samuelsrec.com/mapmenu.htm
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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
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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=
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Earth Healing Initiative: EPA Great Lakes Program Manager Mary Gade tells wonders of the Great Lakes on Earth Day 2008
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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
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23:57:51 04/24/08
EPA Regional Administrator Mary A. Gade celebrates Earth Day 2008 in Chicago
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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
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19:35:22 04/17/08
Earth Healing Initiative Welcome: Founder explains interfaith goals & EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day
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An Introduction: The interfaith Earth Healing Initiative & Earth Day 2008
Numerous faith communities, American Indian tribes and many others being encouraged to volunteer or participate in a large eight-state Earth Day 2008 project with events across the Great Lakes Basin through mid-May.
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.
Collection sites will accept old/broken computers, cell phones, TVs and other electronics to be recycled, and old/unwanted medicines to be properly disposed during the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
The EPA awarded grants to some of the over 100 project sites in hundreds of communities where residents can drop off e-waste and old/unwanted pharmaceuticals at collection sites.
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.
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Earth Healing official website::
http://www.EarthHealingInitiative.org
EPA GLNPO Official challenge link:
http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/earthday2008/index.html
http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/earthday2008/events.html
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EPA Press Release on challenge:
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/D48F2AD96EC624E38525740B003AEE57
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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.
The EHI is offering free media assistance to environment projects including press releases, press contacts, internet and high definition digital videos, podcasts and vast internet postings.
For more details call Greg at 906-401-0109.
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22:05:52 04/16/08
Earth Healing Initiative: Milwaukee, WI - pharmaceutical & electronics collections to honor Earth Da
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin hosts two Earth Day 2008 events: Pharmaceutical and e-waste collections planned as part of EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge
The EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge is underway with about 100 projects in hundreds of communities across eight states including two events in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) is expanding its third annual Medicine Collection Day to include four counties.
Named “A prescription for clean water and safe kids,” the pharmaceutical collections will be held on April 19 in Milwaukee, Racine, Ozaukee, and Washington counties.
Meanwhile - the city of Milwaukee is hosting an electronic waste collection for its residents on Saturday, April 26, 2008 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The e-Waste collection will be held in a parking lot just south of Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago St., Milwaukee.
City of Milwaukee residents are invited to bring their unwanted televisions and computer equipment to this event to get them recycled.
Material will be recycled at no charge to residents of Milwaukee. Officials added the event is not for business waste - just residents.
The contact is Rick Meyers with the City of Milwaukee Dept of Public Works. Call Meyers at 414-286-2334
The Earth Healing Initiative has put our local interfaith liaison in touch with Milwaukee officials.
He’s Rev. Brad Brown, campus pastor at Marquette University Lutheran Campus Ministry - in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The MMSD has distributed nearly 200,000 postcards promoting the event that has been widely publicized by area media.
The Earth Healing Initiative offered to help distribute the final 5,000 cards to interfaith contacts in the Milwaukee area.
The MMSD’s Steve Jacquart said “the recent Associated Press investigation on drinking water helped create a lot of public interest in the issue.”
Jacquart added that this event will be the district’s “first truly regional Medicine Collection Day to help protect Lake Michigan, prevent childhood poisonings, and reduce substance abuse.”
The Milwaukee events are among about 100 projects involving hundreds of communities across eight states around the Great Lakes basin that are participating in an Earth Day 2008 challenge from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The goal of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge is collecting and recycling one million pounds of electronics (e-Waste) and the collection of one million pills for proper disposal.
The Earth Healing Initiative is assisting by offering interfaith liaisons to volunteer and encouraging members of local churches and temples to participate in the Earth Day related events in their area.
The Earth Healing Initiative is also offering media services like this video.
Greg Peterson
Earth Healing Initiative TV
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Milwaukee event #1
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Date: April 19, 2008
Type of Event: Unwanted Medications
Details: This year's 3rd annual Medicine Collection Day (A prescription for clean water & safe kids) on April 19th will collect and safely dispose of medicines in Milwaukee, Racine, Ozaukee, and Washington counties.
This will be our first truly regional Medicine Collection Day to help protect Lake Michigan, prevent childhood poisonings, and reduce substance abuse.
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Sponsor/Contact:
Milwaukee Metro Sewerage District
260 West Seeboth St.
Milwaukee, WI 53204
Steve Jacquart, Milwaukee Metro Sewerage District
414-225-2138 (wk)
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Milwaukee Metro Sewerage District:
http://www.mmsd.com
Milorganite - How do we make this stuff?
http://www.mmsd.com/news/detail.cfm?id=114
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Milwaukee pdf flyer - scroll down pdf to bottom to see mini-version:
http://www.mmsd.com/images/programs/MedicineCollection_041908.pdf
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Milwaukee event #2
City of Milwaukee
April 26, 2008
From: 10 am to 2 pm
Type of event: e-Waste
Contact: City of Milwaukee Dept of Public Works Rick Meyers (414-286-2334)
Held in parking lot just south of Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago St., Milwaukee
City of Milwaukee residents are invited to bring their unwanted televisions and computer equipment to this event to get them recycled. Material will be recycled at no charge to residents of Milwaukee. No businesses please.
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
City of Milwaukee event map:
http://www.mpw.net/docs/escrap_map.pdf
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Related Stories:
WISN News Milwaukee, WI:
http://www.wisn.com/news/15902308/detail.html
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Milwaukee Earth Healing Initiative page:
http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org/milwaukee.html
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Earth Healing Initiative Milwaukee interfaith liaison:
Rev. Brad Brown, campus pastor
Marquette University Lutheran Campus Ministry - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
414-288-3691
email:
bradley.brown@mu.edu
Pastor Brown’s blog:
http://www.mulutherans.com/index.php
Marquette University Lutheran Campus Ministry (LCM) website:
http://www.mulutherans.com
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Marquette University Ministry
AMU 236
1442 W. Wisconsin Ave. P.O. Box 1881
Milwaukee, WI
53201-1881
922 South 29th Street
Milwaukee, WI
53215
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website:
http://www.marquette.edu/um
http://www.marquette.edu/um/staff/
http://www.marquette.edu/um/worship/documents/1018107web.pdf
Phone: 414-288-6873 Fax: 414-288-3696
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Interfaith Earth Healing Message from Bishop Tom Skrenes: Get involved in EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth
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An Earth Healing Message from Bishop Thomas A. Skrenes about the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge
A Lutheran Bishop who has participated in interfaith Earth Day recycling projects for three years in a row encourages people of all faiths to get involved and help protect the environment.
Interfaith environment projects like the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge will help ensure a better future for all humans, according to Lutheran Bishop Thomas A. Skrenes of the Northern Great Lakes Synod (NGLS) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
The challenge involves about 40 projects in hundreds of communities across eights states including recycling electronics (e-Waste), properly disposing of pharmaceuticals and everyday poisons (called Household Hazardous Waste - HHW), and cleaning up communities across the Great Lakes basin.
The U.S. Environmental Projection Agency has provided grants to some of the cities and to the Earth Healing Initiative to help reach a goal of one million pounds of electronics and one million pills.
The interfaith Earth Healing Initiative, based in Marquette, MI, is helping promote the challenge and coordinate interfaith volunteers and participation in some of the Great Lakes Basin cities.
Bishop Skrenes is among 10 faith leaders who have signed the northern Michigan Earth Keeper Covenant pledging to actively participate in environment projects, build bridges with others faiths, and reach out to Native American communities.
The ongoing project involves the congregations of over 150 churches and temples representing ten faith communities - Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Methodist Church, Unitarian Universalist, Bah', Jewish, Zen Buddhist and most recently the Religious Society of Friends - commonly known as the Quakers.
The Upper Peninsula Earth keepers set up collection sites across a 400-mile area of northern Michigan on Earth Day 2005-2007.
About 15,000 residents turned in over 320 tons of e-Waste, 45 tons of HHW including car batteries, oil-based paint, pesticides, liquid mercury, and other common poisons and over one ton of pharmaceuticals including $500,000 in narcotics.
Bishop Skrenes said the interfaith clean sweep is an example for other communities in the world because it shows like-minded people with good hearts can make a real impact in their communities when tackling environmental problem that seem daunting or too big for the average person to really make a difference..
Bishop Skrenes hopes everyone across the Great Lakes Basin will participate in their local project.
For more information:
http://www.EarthHealingInitiative.org
or call: 906-401-0109
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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.
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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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19:03:58 04/08/08
Earth Healing Initiative: Faith groups face tipping point; learn Native American respect for planet
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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.
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Related Links:
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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
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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
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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
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http://www.earth-community.org
http://www.earth-is-community.org.uk/aboutthomasberry.htm
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Thomas Berry:
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/tb.html
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‘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.
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http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=5373%s=1
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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. 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