Earth Healing founder, Lutheran Bishop, Zen Buddhist priest: Start interfaith environment group
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The founder of two interfaith environment groups is often asked by others to explain the best way to start effective interfaith groups in their own community.
Along the shores of Lake Superior, creating interfaith environmental groups was discussed by leaders of the Earth Healing Initiative and the Upper Peninsula Earth Keeper Initiative, both based in Marquette, Michigan.
The non-profit Earth Healing Initiative provided interfaith volunteers and participants top numerous cities during the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
The challenge recycled of millions of pounds of electronics and properly disposed millions of pills and other meds in April 2008 from over 100 projects across eight states that make up the Great Lakes Basin.
This warm day in May 2008 produced ripples in unusually calm Lake Superior as wildlife heralded spring in the background. A perfect serene setting to discuss interfaith environment work and how it can be created in other areas.
EHI founder Rev. Jon Magnuson co-founded the Earth Keeper Initiative that started when nine northern Michigan faith leaders signed the Earth Keeper Covenant in 2004.
The bishops and other faith leaders pledged to reach out to Native Americans and actively participate in interfaith environment projects.
This video includes thoughts of Rev. Jon Magnuson, director of Lutheran Campus Ministry (LCM) at Northern Michigan University (NMU) in Marquette, MI; and Rev. Tesshin Paul Lehmberg, head priest of Lake Superior Zendo, a Marquette Zen Buddhist temple; and Lutheran Bishop Thomas A. Skrenes of the Northern Great Lakes Synod (NGLS) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
Rev. Lehmberg and Bishop Skrenes were among the nine original signers of the Earth Keeper Covenant.
The non-profit 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.
Rev. Magnuson is CTI executive director.
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The CTI Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative is developing relationshipS with the same faith communities 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.
The EHI assisted challenge organizers by offering interfaith liaisons to volunteer and encourage members of local churches/temples to participate in the Earth Day 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 - with the non-profit interfaith EHI in Marquette, Michigan.
The Earth Healing Initiative involves American Indian tribes and "a coalition of churches synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal protect and defend the environment" said Rev. Magnuson, Earth Healing founder.
The next project during the summer of 2008 involves encouraging bee and butterfly pollenization through means that include creating habitat thanks to help from at-risk teens and American Indian tribes. The pollen project is important because billions of bees have died prematurely across the country and the problem has become alarming in the Midwest. More on this project in the near future.
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Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative
http://www.EarthHealingInitiative.org
EPA Region 5 Office in Chicago
http://www.epa.gov/region5
Cedar Tree Institute
http://www.CedarTreeInstitute.org
The Lake Superior Interfaith Communication Network
http://www.lakesuperiorinterfaith.com
ELCA Northern Great Lakes Synod
http://www.nglsynod.org
ELCA:
http://www.elca.org
Along the shores of Lake Superior, creating interfaith environmental groups was discussed by leaders of the Earth Healing Initiative and the Upper Peninsula Earth Keeper Initiative, both based in Marquette, Michigan.
The non-profit Earth Healing Initiative provided interfaith volunteers and participants top numerous cities during the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
The challenge recycled of millions of pounds of electronics and properly disposed millions of pills and other meds in April 2008 from over 100 projects across eight states that make up the Great Lakes Basin.
This warm day in May 2008 produced ripples in unusually calm Lake Superior as wildlife heralded spring in the background. A perfect serene setting to discuss interfaith environment work and how it can be created in other areas.
EHI founder Rev. Jon Magnuson co-founded the Earth Keeper Initiative that started when nine northern Michigan faith leaders signed the Earth Keeper Covenant in 2004.
The bishops and other faith leaders pledged to reach out to Native Americans and actively participate in interfaith environment projects.
This video includes thoughts of Rev. Jon Magnuson, director of Lutheran Campus Ministry (LCM) at Northern Michigan University (NMU) in Marquette, MI; and Rev. Tesshin Paul Lehmberg, head priest of Lake Superior Zendo, a Marquette Zen Buddhist temple; and Lutheran Bishop Thomas A. Skrenes of the Northern Great Lakes Synod (NGLS) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
Rev. Lehmberg and Bishop Skrenes were among the nine original signers of the Earth Keeper Covenant.
The non-profit 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.
Rev. Magnuson is CTI executive director.
.
The CTI Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative is developing relationshipS with the same faith communities 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.
The EHI assisted challenge organizers by offering interfaith liaisons to volunteer and encourage members of local churches/temples to participate in the Earth Day 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 - with the non-profit interfaith EHI in Marquette, Michigan.
The Earth Healing Initiative involves American Indian tribes and "a coalition of churches synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal protect and defend the environment" said Rev. Magnuson, Earth Healing founder.
The next project during the summer of 2008 involves encouraging bee and butterfly pollenization through means that include creating habitat thanks to help from at-risk teens and American Indian tribes. The pollen project is important because billions of bees have died prematurely across the country and the problem has become alarming in the Midwest. More on this project in the near future.
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Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative
http://www.EarthHealingInitiative.org
EPA Region 5 Office in Chicago
http://www.epa.gov/region5
Cedar Tree Institute
http://www.CedarTreeInstitute.org
The Lake Superior Interfaith Communication Network
http://www.lakesuperiorinterfaith.com
ELCA Northern Great Lakes Synod
http://www.nglsynod.org
ELCA:
http://www.elca.org
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