Join: Mar 6, 2008

Name: EarthHealingTV

Gender: Male

Hometown: Marquette, Michigan

Location: Marquette, Michigan, US

Videos Watched: 143

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Founder of the Earth Healing Initiative.Executive Director of the non-profit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, MI that has created numerous faith-based environment projects and health care collaborations thanks to college students, 10 faith traditions, teenagers, American Indians, doctors, nurses, health care professionals and other liked minded souls.Co-founder of Michigan Earth Keeper Initiative that removed over 370 tons of hazardous waste from Upper Peninsula homes in three Earth day clean sweeps.Creator of the Manoomin Project that restored wild rice to northern Michigan through the hands of at-risk teens and the hearts of Native Americans.Director of the Lutheran Campus Ministry program at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, MI.Counselor for a wide range of people including clergy, youth, doctors and other health professionals-------CHICAGO, April 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Communities and residents of the Great Lakes basin responded enthusiastically to EPA's Great Lakes Earth Day Challenge to collect 1 million pounds of electronics for recycling and 1 million pills for safe disposal to keep contaminants out of the Great Lakes."We are very pleased that so many people have stepped up to accept the Great Lakes Earth Day Challenge," said EPA Great Lakes National Program Manager and Region 5 Administrator Mary A. Gade. "Communities have reported collecting more medicines and electronics this Earth Week than at any previous collections."The EPA can report that well over 2,184,000 pills have already been turned in for safe disposal - more than double the challenge goal.EPA also expects to far exceed its goal for e-waste based on 216,000 pounds of electronics collected at six events.---EPA Press release.http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/epas-great-lakes-earth-day,367679.shtml---Flow of the River EPA Blog including Chicago Earth Day event:http://flowoftheriver.epa.gov/greatlakeschallengehttp://flowoftheriver.epa.gov/greatlakeschallenge/2008/04/earth-day-in-re.html---Earth911 Story on EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge:http://earth911.org/blog/2008/03/14/epas-great-lakes-2008-earth-day-challenge-a-prescription-for-healthy-great-lakes/---The interfaith Earth Healing Initiative:http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org---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, WoodstockIndiana:Columbia City, Hammond, Knox, LaPorte, Fort Wayne, Rushville, ValparaisoMichigan: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 CityMinnesota:Blaine, Brooklyn Park, Duluth, Eagan, Eden Prairie, Madison, Maple Grove, New Ulm, Saint Cloud, Shakopee, St. Louis Park, St. PaulNew York:Brockport, Buffalo, Fredonia, Rochester (two events), Syracuse (two events).Ohio:Cleveland, Grove City, Kent, Perrysburg, Sandusky, Springfield, Toledo, WarrenPennsylvania:Erie, LancasterWisconsin: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.

Videos (31)

Adventure 2008: WI couple kayaking around Lake Superior

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  • Author: EarthHealingTV

Tags: Ashland  Canada  environment  Great  kayak  Kayaking  Lake  Lakes  Marquette  Michigan  Peninsula  Superior  swim  Upper  Wisconsin 

(Marquette, Michigan) - It's a 1,300 mile - two month - odyssey - kayaking around the always beautiful and sometimes treacherous Lake Superior Ashland, Wisconsin residents Alissa Weitz and Brian Castillo are promoting the protection of Lake Superior - the world's largest freshwater lake.The...

Menominee students on protecting Earth, honored by elders

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Tags: College  e-waste  Indian  medicine  Menominee  Nation  of  pharmaceuticals  pills  school  tribal  Tribe  Wisconsin 

(Keshena, Wisconsin) - Menominee Tribal School students are learning valuable lessons about protecting the environment and learning their tribe's heritage including keeping native language alive.In April 2008, the 180 tribal school students participated in "Clean Up the Rez Day."The students...

Get ready : Lake Superior Day July 20, 2008 Plan shore event

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Tags: Agency  beach  Binational  College  environment  Environmental  EPA  Forum  Great  Lake  Lakes  Northland  Protection  Superior  water 

Plan your Lake Superior Day event for July 20, 2008 celebrate world's largest, cleanest freshwater lakeThere's nothing like the crystal clear waters of Lake Superior in the summertime.Lake Superior Day 2008 is right around the corner. Make your plans now to celebrate Lake Superior. The world's...

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Interfaith Blessing of the Garden: Michigan native plants

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Tags: blessing  Buddhist  earth  garden  interfaith  Lothlorien  Lutheran  Michigan  native  Northern  plants  Tolkien  University  Zen 

Students convert Lutheran Campus Ministry lawn into eco-friendly Native Plants Garden; Rainstorm ends for Blessing of the Garden ceremonyDuring 2008 a solar fountain will flow - and wild flowers will bloom - in a native plants garden that has replaced the lawn at the Lutheran Campus Ministry...

Native American Eagle Feathers & Manoomin Project teens

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Tags: American  arts  athletics  business  cedar  communications  computer  eagle  economics  engineering  feather  feathers  health  humanities  Indian  language  math  media  medicine  Michigan  Native  performing  physical  powwow  respect  rice  science  social  teenagers  teens  tobacco  tree  tribe  visual  wild 

#3 Ojibwa Storyteller explains importance of Native American eagle feathers to Manoomin Project teens in Marquette, MIDuring the summer of 2007, an Ojibwa elder spoke to Manoomin Project teens about the use of Eagle Feathers by Native Americans including why tribal members can legally possess the...

Native American Medicine Wheel & Manoomin Project teens

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Tags: American  arts  athletics  Bay  business  colors  communications  Community  computer  direction  economics  engineering  health  humanities  Indian  Keweenaw  language  Manoomin  math  media  medicine  Michigan  Native  Ojibwa  performing  physical  rice  science  social  teens  visual  wheel  wild 

#2 Native Indian elder and Ojibwa Storyteller Glen Bressette explains Medicine Wheel - colors, directions, meanings to Manoomin Project teens in Marquette, Michigan.Ojibwa Medicine WheelThe Manoomin Project is about much more than restoring wild rice to northern Michigan.The project teaches...