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Interfaith dialogue at the VIP breakfast before the Carry the Vision conference at Santa Clara University on October 2, 2010.
The Middletown, NY Interfaith Council held its annual community service (after a break due to COVID) at St. John's Lutheran this year. Many flavors of Christian along with Hindu, Jewish, and Moslem representation. We have many theological differences, but all agree on feeding and sheltering the poor and homeless. The Offerings supported the interfaith food pantry.
FACES IN THE CROWD before start of 21st GAY PRIDE DAY PARADE on 17th Street, NW, Washington DC on Sunday, 9 June 1996 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Pride Interfaith Service
Reverend Elder Darlene Garner
www.facebook.com/revelderdarlene/
Visit Elvert Barnes WASHINGTON DC GAY PRIDE ongoing project at elvertbarnes.com/DCGayPride
Mayor Eric Adams hosts an interfaith breakfast at the New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Thursday, February 10, 2022. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks at an interfaith clergy event at the House of the Lord Pentecostal church in Brooklyn, on Friday, June 12, 2022. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
DCM William Grant and Ms. Mary Knight hosted at their residence the Embassy’s first “Interfaith Thanksgiving Dinner" for a diverse gathering of 80 Jewish and Arab social, political, and cultural community representatives. Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Druze religious leaders, as well as representatives from the different faith communities and ethnicities within Israeli society, joined to celebrate diversity and mutual respect at the Thanksgiving dinner, with a prayer for peace given by the religious leaders present. DCM Grant highlighted the U.S. Embassy’s commitments and efforts in fostering ongoing dialogues, promoting inter-religious and intercultural communication, and partnership with the diverse communities in Israel. “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars,” the DCM said, quoting the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Photo Credit: Daviv Azagury/ U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv
DCM William Grant and Ms. Mary Knight hosted at their residence the Embassy’s first “Interfaith Thanksgiving Dinner" for a diverse gathering of 80 Jewish and Arab social, political, and cultural community representatives. Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Druze religious leaders, as well as representatives from the different faith communities and ethnicities within Israeli society, joined to celebrate diversity and mutual respect at the Thanksgiving dinner, with a prayer for peace given by the religious leaders present. DCM Grant highlighted the U.S. Embassy’s commitments and efforts in fostering ongoing dialogues, promoting inter-religious and intercultural communication, and partnership with the diverse communities in Israel. “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars,” the DCM said, quoting the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Photo Credit: Daviv Azagury/ U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv
DCM William Grant and Ms. Mary Knight hosted at their residence the Embassy’s first “Interfaith Thanksgiving Dinner" for a diverse gathering of 80 Jewish and Arab social, political, and cultural community representatives. Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Druze religious leaders, as well as representatives from the different faith communities and ethnicities within Israeli society, joined to celebrate diversity and mutual respect at the Thanksgiving dinner, with a prayer for peace given by the religious leaders present. DCM Grant highlighted the U.S. Embassy’s commitments and efforts in fostering ongoing dialogues, promoting inter-religious and intercultural communication, and partnership with the diverse communities in Israel. “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars,” the DCM said, quoting the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Photo Credit: Daviv Azagury/ U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv
Interfaith Clergy Breakfast on Tuesday, October 8, 2019. Hosted by the Office of the Provost at Seton Hall University.
The interfaith EarthKeepers II Team held a strategy meeting on April 5, 2013 at the Big Bay Point Lighthouse Bed and Breakfast in Big Bay, Michigan to plan the 30 faith community gardens.
Presentation on the importance of native species plants and protecting pollinators by Jan Schultz, U.S. Forest Service Midwest Botanist.
Jan Schultz is the head Botanist at the USFS Eastern Region (R-9) Office in Milwaukee, WI and the EarthKeepers II Technical Advisor for Community Gardens.
EarthKeepers II is an Interfaith Energy Conservation and Community Garden Initiative across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Over the next two years, at least 30 interfaith community gardens will be planted that include vegetables (some fresh produce will be given to food banks) - plus native species plants.
EarthKeepers II has representatives from 10 faith communities involving 250 churches/temples in northern Michigan: Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Jewish, Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Methodist, Bahá'í, Unitarian Universalist and Zen Buddhist.
These gardens will serve as a pollinator central for all plants in the area.
Native species plants are pollinator friendly - and that is important as one-third of America's pollinators have died in the past 7 years.
The reasons for the pollinator disappearances (bees, butterflies) are varied but most of which are human related especially a new and deadly pesticide/fertilizer powder that is used to coat seeds.
Humans cannot live without pollinators.
A presentation on native species plants and pollinators was given by U.S. Forest Service Midwest Botanist Jan Schultz.
Schultz is the Head Botanist at the USFS Eastern Region (R-9) Office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and we are fortunate she is the EarthKeepers II Technical Advisor for Community Gardens
EarthKeepers II Project Coordinator Kyra Fillmore Ziomkowski explained the community garden plans at churches and temples across the U.P.
Funded by the EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, EarthKeepers II has a major goal of reducing toxins in the Great Lakes including airborne mercury - through energy conservation audits and grants for churches/temples - and educating their congregations on ways to reduce energy consumption at home - while getting financial incentives to do so.
An EarthKeepers II contractor has completed 17 of the 40 energy audits at churches/temples in the U.P. - and all will be completed by this fall, according to Delta Green Ex. Dir. Doug Russell, Executive Director, EarthKeepers II Energy Conservation Consultant.
Grants of up to $500 (in a few cases more) will be offered to these congregations to help make energy conservations repairs at the houses of worship
Those attending the Big Bay meeting included faith leaders and representatives, project organizers and the EarthKeepers II Student Team from Northern Michigan University.
Attendees included:
Longtime EarthKeeper Rev. Tesshin Paul Lehmberg of the Lake Superior Zendo, a Zen Buddhist temple located at 2222 Longyear Ave, in Marquette, MI.
906-226-6407
plehmber@nmu.edu
Guest speaker the Rev. Stephen Gauger of Calvary Lutheran Church
Rapid River, Michigan - representing the Northern Great Lakes Synod (NGLS) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) - and NGLS Bishop Thomas Skrenes.
Helen Grossman, representing Jewish Temple Beth Sholom in Ishpeming, MI
www.templebethsholom-ishpeming.org
Rev. Christine Bergquist of the Bark River United Methodist Church (UMC) and the First UMC of Hermansville - and representing the United Methodist Church Marquette District - and Rev Elbert P Dulworth, District Superintendent.
(EarthKeepers II also thanks Grant Lobb, former Mqt. Dist. Supt. (who has taken another position) and a longtime supporter of U.P. EarthKeepers projects - and we remember the late Episcopal "Earth Bishop" - Bishop James "Jim" Kelsey - who was with the EarthKeepers from our humble beginnings in 2005 - and now watches over us from above.)
Rev. Albert Valentine II of the Manistique Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer and the Gould City Community Presbyterian Church - and representing the Presbytery of Mackinac.
Rev. Pete Andersen, a retired ELCA pastor from Marquette.
Rev. Elisabeth Zant of the NGLS ELCA Eden Evangelical Lutheran Church in Munising, MI.
Heidi Gould of
Marquette representing the Marquette Unitarian Universalist Congregation, a liberal religious community for the Marquette community
Check out the EarthKeepers II social sites (see links below) including our videos - that include beautiful pollinator and nature photos in videos by environmentalist Nancy Parker Hill.
And vegetable garden photos by Carol Michel, a garden blogger, garden writer, eccentric gardener in the Indianapolis, IN area.
Indygardener at gmail.com
May Dreams Gardens:
www.maydreamsgardens.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/MayDreamsGardens
Among those involved in the project but not mentioned above are:
Rev. Jon Magnuson, Executive Director
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute
EarthKeepers II Project Director
Marquette, Michigan
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute projects include Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project, the Manitou Project and the Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC)
Baraga, Michigan
KBIC Natural Resources Department
KBIC Solar-Powered Green House
L'Anse, Michigan
Borealis Seed Company
Judy Keast, Suzanne Rabitaille
Big Bay, Michigan
NMU EarthKeepers II Student Team:
Katelin Bingner
Tom Merkel
Adam Magnuson
10 Faith Communities:
Roman Catholic
Episcopal
Jewish
Lutheran
Presbyterian
United Methodist
Bahá'í
Unitarian Universalist
Zen Buddhist
Rev. Charlie West
EarthKeepers II Religious Communications
Obadiah Metivier
EarthKeepers II Webmaster
Owner & Creative Director of Middle Ear Media
Marquette, Michigan
Videography, Editor, Producer, and Project Volunteer Media Advisor:
Greg Peterson
EarthKeepersII@gmail.com
906-401-0109
Special thanks to the Marquette Community Gardens
www.marquettecommunitygardens.org
www.facebook.com/pages/Marquette-Community-Gardens/277739...
EarthKeepers II thanks everyone named and unnamed for their loving help with this project:
An Interfaith Energy Conservation and Community Garden Initiative Across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Restore Native Plants and Protect the Great Lakes from Toxins like Airborne Mercury in cooperation with the EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, U.S. Forest Service, 10 faith traditions and Native American tribes like the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
Official EarthKeepers II website
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, MI
EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Great Lakes Binational Toxics Strategy (GLBTS)
Deborah Lamberty
Program Analyst
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Great Lakes National Program Office
77 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL
60604-3590
Lamberty.Deborah@epa.gov
312-886-6681 (wk)
312-692-2974 (fax)
Elizabeth 'Liz' LaPlante, senior manager for the EPA Great Lakes National Programs Office in Chicago, Ill
EarthKeepers II social sites:
www.youtube.com/EarthKeepersII
www.facebook.com/EarthKeepersII
www.twitter.com/EarthKeeperTeam
pinterest.com/EarthKeepersII/EarthKeepers-II-and-the-EPA-...
pinterest.com/EarthKeepersII/Great-Lakes-Restoration-Init...
Google youtube page for EKII:
plus.google.com/u/0/b/104404714072685272630/1044047140726...
www.linkedin.com/in/gregpetersonyoopernewsman
www.facebook.com/GregJohnPeterson
www.facebook.com/EarthKeepersII
fyi:
EarthKeeper II Energy Conservation Audits finished as of 6-12-13
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Marquette, MI
St. Matthais Episcopal Church
Pickford, MI
St. James Episcopal Church
Sault Ste. Marie, MI
Temple Beth Sholom
Jewish Synagogue
Ishpeming, MI
Messiah Lutheran Church
Marquette, MI
St. Mark's Church
Marquette, MI
Grace Lutheran Church
Pembine, WI
Trinity Lutheran Church
Rhinelander, WI
Emmanuel Lutheran Church
Skandia, MI
St. James Lutheran Church
Rudyard, MI
Pickford United Methodist Church (UMC)
Pickford, MI
First UMC
Marquette, MI
Newberry UMC
Newberry, MI
Paradise UMC
Paradise, MI
Hulbert/Taquamenon UMC
Hulbert, MI
Marquette Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Marquette, MI
Lake Superior Zendo
Zen Buddhist
Aurora Dharma Temple
Marquette, MI
Thanks to our friends at the Big Bay lighthouse:
Big Bay Point Lighthouse Bed and Breakfast
#3 Lighthouse Road
Big Bay, Michigan
49808
906-345-9957 (office)
keepers@BigBayLighthouse.com
The interfaith EarthKeepers II Team held a strategy meeting on April 5, 2013 at the Big Bay Point Lighthouse Bed and Breakfast in Big Bay, Michigan to plan the 30 faith community gardens.
EarthKeepers II is an Interfaith Energy Conservation and Community Garden Initiative across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Over the next two years, at least 30 interfaith community gardens will be planted that include vegetables (some fresh produce will be given to food banks) - plus native species plants.
EarthKeepers II has representatives from 10 faith communities involving 250 churches/temples in northern Michigan: Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Jewish, Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Methodist, Bahá'í, Unitarian Universalist and Zen Buddhist.
These gardens will serve as a pollinator central for all plants in the area.
Native species plants are pollinator friendly - and that is important as one-third of America's pollinators have died in the past 7 years.
The reasons for the pollinator disappearances (bees, butterflies) are varied but most of which are human related especially a new and deadly pesticide/fertilizer powder that is used to coat seeds.
Humans cannot live without pollinators.
A presentation on native species plants and pollinators was given by U.S. Forest Service Midwest Botanist Jan Schultz.
Schultz is the Head Botanist at the USFS Eastern Region (R-9) Office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and we are fortunate she is the EarthKeepers II Technical Advisor for Community Gardens
EarthKeepers II Project Coordinator Kyra Fillmore Ziomkowski explained the community garden plans at churches and temples across the U.P.
Funded by the EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, EarthKeepers II has a major goal of reducing toxins in the Great Lakes including airborne mercury - through energy conservation audits and grants for churches/temples - and educating their congregations on ways to reduce energy consumption at home - while getting financial incentives to do so.
An EarthKeepers II contractor has completed 17 of the 40 energy audits at churches/temples in the U.P. - and all will be completed by this fall, according to Delta Green Ex. Dir. Doug Russell, Executive Director, EarthKeepers II Energy Conservation Consultant.
Grants of up to $500 (in a few cases more) will be offered to these congregations to help make energy conservations repairs at the houses of worship
Those attending the Big Bay meeting included faith leaders and representatives, project organizers and the EarthKeepers II Student Team from Northern Michigan University.
Attendees included:
Longtime EarthKeeper Rev. Tesshin Paul Lehmberg of the Lake Superior Zendo, a Zen Buddhist temple located at 2222 Longyear Ave, in Marquette, MI.
906-226-6407
plehmber@nmu.edu
Guest speaker the Rev. Stephen Gauger of Calvary Lutheran Church
Rapid River, Michigan - representing the Northern Great Lakes Synod (NGLS) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) - and NGLS Bishop Thomas Skrenes.
Helen Grossman, representing Jewish Temple Beth Sholom in Ishpeming, MI
www.templebethsholom-ishpeming.org
Rev. Christine Bergquist of the Bark River United Methodist Church (UMC) and the First UMC of Hermansville - and representing the United Methodist Church Marquette District - and Rev Elbert P Dulworth, District Superintendent.
(EarthKeepers II also thanks Grant Lobb, former Mqt. Dist. Supt. (who has taken another position) and a longtime supporter of U.P. EarthKeepers projects - and we remember the late Episcopal "Earth Bishop" - Bishop James "Jim" Kelsey - who was with the EarthKeepers from our humble beginnings in 2005 - and now watches over us from above.)
Rev. Albert Valentine II of the Manistique Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer and the Gould City Community Presbyterian Church - and representing the Presbytery of Mackinac.
Rev. Pete Andersen, a retired ELCA pastor from Marquette.
Rev. Elisabeth Zant of the NGLS ELCA Eden Evangelical Lutheran Church in Munising, MI.
Heidi Gould of
Marquette representing the Marquette Unitarian Universalist Congregation, a liberal religious community for the Marquette community
Check out the EarthKeepers II social sites (see links below) including our videos - that include beautiful pollinator and nature photos in videos by environmentalist Nancy Parker Hill.
And vegetable garden photos by Carol Michel, a garden blogger, garden writer, eccentric gardener in the Indianapolis, IN area.
Indygardener at gmail.com
May Dreams Gardens:
www.maydreamsgardens.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/MayDreamsGardens
Among those involved in the project but not mentioned above are:
Rev. Jon Magnuson, Executive Director
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute
EarthKeepers II Project Director
Marquette, Michigan
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute projects include Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project, the Manitou Project and the Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC)
Baraga, Michigan
KBIC Natural Resources Department
KBIC Solar-Powered Green House
L'Anse, Michigan
Borealis Seed Company
Judy Keast, Suzanne Rabitaille
Big Bay, Michigan
NMU EarthKeepers II Student Team:
Katelin Bingner
Tom Merkel
Adam Magnuson
10 Faith Communities:
Roman Catholic
Episcopal
Jewish
Lutheran
Presbyterian
United Methodist
Bahá'í
Unitarian Universalist
Zen Buddhist
Rev. Charlie West
EarthKeepers II Religious Communications
Obadiah Metivier
EarthKeepers II Webmaster
Owner & Creative Director of Middle Ear Media
Marquette, Michigan
Videography, Editor, Producer, and Project Volunteer Media Advisor:
Greg Peterson
EarthKeepersII@gmail.com
906-401-0109
Special thanks to the Marquette Community Gardens
www.marquettecommunitygardens.org
www.facebook.com/pages/Marquette-Community-Gardens/277739...
EarthKeepers II thanks everyone named and unnamed for their loving help with this project:
An Interfaith Energy Conservation and Community Garden Initiative Across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Restore Native Plants and Protect the Great Lakes from Toxins like Airborne Mercury in cooperation with the EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, U.S. Forest Service, 10 faith traditions and Native American tribes like the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
Official EarthKeepers II website
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, MI
EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Great Lakes Binational Toxics Strategy (GLBTS)
Deborah Lamberty
Program Analyst
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Great Lakes National Program Office
77 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL
60604-3590
Lamberty.Deborah@epa.gov
312-886-6681 (wk)
312-692-2974 (fax)
Elizabeth 'Liz' LaPlante, senior manager for the EPA Great Lakes National Programs Office in Chicago, Ill
EarthKeepers II social sites:
www.youtube.com/EarthKeepersII
www.facebook.com/EarthKeepersII
www.twitter.com/EarthKeeperTeam
pinterest.com/EarthKeepersII/EarthKeepers-II-and-the-EPA-...
pinterest.com/EarthKeepersII/Great-Lakes-Restoration-Init...
Google youtube page for EKII:
plus.google.com/u/0/b/104404714072685272630/1044047140726...
www.linkedin.com/in/gregpetersonyoopernewsman
www.facebook.com/GregJohnPeterson
www.facebook.com/EarthKeepersII
fyi:
EarthKeeper II Energy Conservation Audits finished as of 6-12-13
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Marquette, MI
St. Matthais Episcopal Church
Pickford, MI
St. James Episcopal Church
Sault Ste. Marie, MI
Temple Beth Sholom
Jewish Synagogue
Ishpeming, MI
Messiah Lutheran Church
Marquette, MI
St. Mark's Church
Marquette, MI
Grace Lutheran Church
Pembine, WI
Trinity Lutheran Church
Rhinelander, WI
Emmanuel Lutheran Church
Skandia, MI
St. James Lutheran Church
Rudyard, MI
Pickford United Methodist Church (UMC)
Pickford, MI
First UMC
Marquette, MI
Newberry UMC
Newberry, MI
Paradise UMC
Paradise, MI
Hulbert/Taquamenon UMC
Hulbert, MI
Marquette Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Marquette, MI
Lake Superior Zendo
Zen Buddhist
Aurora Dharma Temple
Marquette, MI
Thanks to our friends at the Big Bay lighthouse:
Big Bay Point Lighthouse Bed and Breakfast
#3 Lighthouse Road
Big Bay, Michigan
49808
906-345-9957 (office)
keepers@BigBayLighthouse.com
DCM William Grant and Ms. Mary Knight hosted at their residence the Embassy’s first “Interfaith Thanksgiving Dinner" for a diverse gathering of 80 Jewish and Arab social, political, and cultural community representatives. Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Druze religious leaders, as well as representatives from the different faith communities and ethnicities within Israeli society, joined to celebrate diversity and mutual respect at the Thanksgiving dinner, with a prayer for peace given by the religious leaders present. DCM Grant highlighted the U.S. Embassy’s commitments and efforts in fostering ongoing dialogues, promoting inter-religious and intercultural communication, and partnership with the diverse communities in Israel. “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars,” the DCM said, quoting the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Photo Credit: Daviv Azagury/ U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv
DCM William Grant and Ms. Mary Knight hosted at their residence the Embassy’s first “Interfaith Thanksgiving Dinner" for a diverse gathering of 80 Jewish and Arab social, political, and cultural community representatives. Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Druze religious leaders, as well as representatives from the different faith communities and ethnicities within Israeli society, joined to celebrate diversity and mutual respect at the Thanksgiving dinner, with a prayer for peace given by the religious leaders present. DCM Grant highlighted the U.S. Embassy’s commitments and efforts in fostering ongoing dialogues, promoting inter-religious and intercultural communication, and partnership with the diverse communities in Israel. “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars,” the DCM said, quoting the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Photo Credit: Daviv Azagury/ U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv
DCM William Grant and Ms. Mary Knight hosted at their residence the Embassy’s first “Interfaith Thanksgiving Dinner" for a diverse gathering of 80 Jewish and Arab social, political, and cultural community representatives. Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Druze religious leaders, as well as representatives from the different faith communities and ethnicities within Israeli society, joined to celebrate diversity and mutual respect at the Thanksgiving dinner, with a prayer for peace given by the religious leaders present. DCM Grant highlighted the U.S. Embassy’s commitments and efforts in fostering ongoing dialogues, promoting inter-religious and intercultural communication, and partnership with the diverse communities in Israel. “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars,” the DCM said, quoting the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Photo Credit: Daviv Azagury/ U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv
The interfaith EarthKeepers II Team held a strategy meeting on April 5, 2013 at the Big Bay Point Lighthouse Bed and Breakfast in Big Bay, Michigan to plan the 30 faith community gardens.
EarthKeepers II is an Interfaith Energy Conservation and Community Garden Initiative across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Over the next two years, at least 30 interfaith community gardens will be planted that include vegetables (some fresh produce will be given to food banks) - plus native species plants.
EarthKeepers II has representatives from 10 faith communities involving 250 churches/temples in northern Michigan: Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Jewish, Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Methodist, Bahá'í, Unitarian Universalist and Zen Buddhist.
These gardens will serve as a pollinator central for all plants in the area.
Native species plants are pollinator friendly - and that is important as one-third of America's pollinators have died in the past 7 years.
The reasons for the pollinator disappearances (bees, butterflies) are varied but most of which are human related especially a new and deadly pesticide/fertilizer powder that is used to coat seeds.
Humans cannot live without pollinators.
A presentation on native species plants and pollinators was given by U.S. Forest Service Midwest Botanist Jan Schultz.
Schultz is the Head Botanist at the USFS Eastern Region (R-9) Office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and we are fortunate she is the EarthKeepers II Technical Advisor for Community Gardens
EarthKeepers II Project Coordinator Kyra Fillmore Ziomkowski explained the community garden plans at churches and temples across the U.P.
Funded by the EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, EarthKeepers II has a major goal of reducing toxins in the Great Lakes including airborne mercury - through energy conservation audits and grants for churches/temples - and educating their congregations on ways to reduce energy consumption at home - while getting financial incentives to do so.
An EarthKeepers II contractor has completed 17 of the 40 energy audits at churches/temples in the U.P. - and all will be completed by this fall, according to Delta Green Ex. Dir. Doug Russell, Executive Director, EarthKeepers II Energy Conservation Consultant.
Grants of up to $500 (in a few cases more) will be offered to these congregations to help make energy conservations repairs at the houses of worship
Those attending the Big Bay meeting included faith leaders and representatives, project organizers and the EarthKeepers II Student Team from Northern Michigan University.
Attendees included:
Longtime EarthKeeper Rev. Tesshin Paul Lehmberg of the Lake Superior Zendo, a Zen Buddhist temple located at 2222 Longyear Ave, in Marquette, MI.
906-226-6407
plehmber@nmu.edu
Guest speaker the Rev. Stephen Gauger of Calvary Lutheran Church
Rapid River, Michigan - representing the Northern Great Lakes Synod (NGLS) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) - and NGLS Bishop Thomas Skrenes.
Helen Grossman, representing Jewish Temple Beth Sholom in Ishpeming, MI
www.templebethsholom-ishpeming.org
Rev. Christine Bergquist of the Bark River United Methodist Church (UMC) and the First UMC of Hermansville - and representing the United Methodist Church Marquette District - and Rev Elbert P Dulworth, District Superintendent.
(EarthKeepers II also thanks Grant Lobb, former Mqt. Dist. Supt. (who has taken another position) and a longtime supporter of U.P. EarthKeepers projects - and we remember the late Episcopal "Earth Bishop" - Bishop James "Jim" Kelsey - who was with the EarthKeepers from our humble beginnings in 2005 - and now watches over us from above.)
Rev. Albert Valentine II of the Manistique Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer and the Gould City Community Presbyterian Church - and representing the Presbytery of Mackinac.
Rev. Pete Andersen, a retired ELCA pastor from Marquette.
Rev. Elisabeth Zant of the NGLS ELCA Eden Evangelical Lutheran Church in Munising, MI.
Heidi Gould of
Marquette representing the Marquette Unitarian Universalist Congregation, a liberal religious community for the Marquette community
Check out the EarthKeepers II social sites (see links below) including our videos - that include beautiful pollinator and nature photos in videos by environmentalist Nancy Parker Hill.
And vegetable garden photos by Carol Michel, a garden blogger, garden writer, eccentric gardener in the Indianapolis, IN area.
Indygardener at gmail.com
May Dreams Gardens:
www.maydreamsgardens.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/MayDreamsGardens
Among those involved in the project but not mentioned above are:
Rev. Jon Magnuson, Executive Director
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute
EarthKeepers II Project Director
Marquette, Michigan
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute projects include Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project, the Manitou Project and the Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC)
Baraga, Michigan
KBIC Natural Resources Department
KBIC Solar-Powered Green House
L'Anse, Michigan
Borealis Seed Company
Judy Keast, Suzanne Rabitaille
Big Bay, Michigan
NMU EarthKeepers II Student Team:
Katelin Bingner
Tom Merkel
Adam Magnuson
10 Faith Communities:
Roman Catholic
Episcopal
Jewish
Lutheran
Presbyterian
United Methodist
Bahá'í
Unitarian Universalist
Zen Buddhist
Rev. Charlie West
EarthKeepers II Religious Communications
Obadiah Metivier
EarthKeepers II Webmaster
Owner & Creative Director of Middle Ear Media
Marquette, Michigan
Videography, Editor, Producer, and Project Volunteer Media Advisor:
Greg Peterson
EarthKeepersII@gmail.com
906-401-0109
Special thanks to the Marquette Community Gardens
www.marquettecommunitygardens.org
www.facebook.com/pages/Marquette-Community-Gardens/277739...
EarthKeepers II thanks everyone named and unnamed for their loving help with this project:
An Interfaith Energy Conservation and Community Garden Initiative Across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Restore Native Plants and Protect the Great Lakes from Toxins like Airborne Mercury in cooperation with the EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, U.S. Forest Service, 10 faith traditions and Native American tribes like the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
Official EarthKeepers II website
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, MI
EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Great Lakes Binational Toxics Strategy (GLBTS)
Deborah Lamberty
Program Analyst
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Great Lakes National Program Office
77 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL
60604-3590
Lamberty.Deborah@epa.gov
312-886-6681 (wk)
312-692-2974 (fax)
Elizabeth 'Liz' LaPlante, senior manager for the EPA Great Lakes National Programs Office in Chicago, Ill
EarthKeepers II social sites:
www.youtube.com/EarthKeepersII
www.facebook.com/EarthKeepersII
www.twitter.com/EarthKeeperTeam
pinterest.com/EarthKeepersII/EarthKeepers-II-and-the-EPA-...
pinterest.com/EarthKeepersII/Great-Lakes-Restoration-Init...
Google youtube page for EKII:
plus.google.com/u/0/b/104404714072685272630/1044047140726...
www.linkedin.com/in/gregpetersonyoopernewsman
www.facebook.com/GregJohnPeterson
www.facebook.com/EarthKeepersII
fyi:
EarthKeeper II Energy Conservation Audits finished as of 6-12-13
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Marquette, MI
St. Matthais Episcopal Church
Pickford, MI
St. James Episcopal Church
Sault Ste. Marie, MI
Temple Beth Sholom
Jewish Synagogue
Ishpeming, MI
Messiah Lutheran Church
Marquette, MI
St. Mark's Church
Marquette, MI
Grace Lutheran Church
Pembine, WI
Trinity Lutheran Church
Rhinelander, WI
Emmanuel Lutheran Church
Skandia, MI
St. James Lutheran Church
Rudyard, MI
Pickford United Methodist Church (UMC)
Pickford, MI
First UMC
Marquette, MI
Newberry UMC
Newberry, MI
Paradise UMC
Paradise, MI
Hulbert/Taquamenon UMC
Hulbert, MI
Marquette Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Marquette, MI
Lake Superior Zendo
Zen Buddhist
Aurora Dharma Temple
Marquette, MI
Thanks to our friends at the Big Bay lighthouse:
Big Bay Point Lighthouse Bed and Breakfast
#3 Lighthouse Road
Big Bay, Michigan
49808
906-345-9957 (office)
keepers@BigBayLighthouse.com
DCM William Grant and Ms. Mary Knight hosted at their residence the Embassy’s first “Interfaith Thanksgiving Dinner" for a diverse gathering of 80 Jewish and Arab social, political, and cultural community representatives. Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Druze religious leaders, as well as representatives from the different faith communities and ethnicities within Israeli society, joined to celebrate diversity and mutual respect at the Thanksgiving dinner, with a prayer for peace given by the religious leaders present. DCM Grant highlighted the U.S. Embassy’s commitments and efforts in fostering ongoing dialogues, promoting inter-religious and intercultural communication, and partnership with the diverse communities in Israel. “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars,” the DCM said, quoting the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Photo Credit: Daviv Azagury/ U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv
Interfaith Clergy Breakfast on Tuesday, October 8, 2019. Hosted by the Office of the Provost at Seton Hall University.
Sacred Heart University’s Interfaith Thanksgiving Service took place on November 14, 2018, at the Chapel of the Holy Spirit. The event was sponsored by Campus Ministry, Volunteer Programs & Service Learning and the Human Journey Colloquia Series. Photo by Tracy Deer-Mirek
Sacred Heart University’s Curtis Center and the Contemporary Catholic Conversations series hosted “A Jewish, Christian, Muslim Conversation: Texts that Unite, Texts that Divide” on February 27, 2019, in University Commons. Speakers included Rabbi Marcelo Kormis, Fr. Anthony Ciorra and Imam Gazmend Aga. Photo by Tracy Deer-Mirek
Mayor Eric Adams hosts an interfaith breakfast at the New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Thursday, February 10, 2022. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray visit Interfaith Medical Center, where they thank and applaud medical staff on Friday, May 1, 2020. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
DCM William Grant and Ms. Mary Knight hosted at their residence the Embassy’s first “Interfaith Thanksgiving Dinner" for a diverse gathering of 80 Jewish and Arab social, political, and cultural community representatives. Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Druze religious leaders, as well as representatives from the different faith communities and ethnicities within Israeli society, joined to celebrate diversity and mutual respect at the Thanksgiving dinner, with a prayer for peace given by the religious leaders present. DCM Grant highlighted the U.S. Embassy’s commitments and efforts in fostering ongoing dialogues, promoting inter-religious and intercultural communication, and partnership with the diverse communities in Israel. “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars,” the DCM said, quoting the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Photo Credit: Daviv Azagury/ U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv
DCM William Grant and Ms. Mary Knight hosted at their residence the Embassy’s first “Interfaith Thanksgiving Dinner" for a diverse gathering of 80 Jewish and Arab social, political, and cultural community representatives. Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Druze religious leaders, as well as representatives from the different faith communities and ethnicities within Israeli society, joined to celebrate diversity and mutual respect at the Thanksgiving dinner, with a prayer for peace given by the religious leaders present. DCM Grant highlighted the U.S. Embassy’s commitments and efforts in fostering ongoing dialogues, promoting inter-religious and intercultural communication, and partnership with the diverse communities in Israel. “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars,” the DCM said, quoting the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Photo Credit: Daviv Azagury/ U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv
Jon Magnuson, Executive Director of the nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, Michigan
906-2285494
magnusonx2@charter.net
EarthKeepers II (EK II) Project Coordinator Kyra Fillmore Ziomkowski explains creating 30 interfaith community gardens (2013-2014) across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that include vegetables and native species plants that encourage and help pollinators like bees and butterflies.
The video was shot on April 5, 2013 at the Big Bay Point Lighthouse Bed and Breakfast in Big Bay, MI during a meeting of EK II representatives.
An Interfaith Energy Conservation and Community Garden Initiative Across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Restore Native Plants and Protect the Great Lakes from Toxins like Airborne Mercury in cooperation with the EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, U.S. Forest Service, 10 faith traditions and Native American tribes such as Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
10 faiths: Roman Catholic" "Episcopal" "Jewish" "Lutheran" "Presbyterian" "United Methodist" "Bahá'í" "Unitarian Universalist" "American Friends" "Quaker" "Zen Buddhist" "
EK II website
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute
Marquette, MI
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
Deborah Lamberty
Program Analyst
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Great Lakes National Program Office
Chicago, IL
Lamberty.Deborah@epa.gov
312-886-6681
Pastor Albert Valentine II
Manistique, MI
Manistique Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer
Gould City Community Presbyterian Church
Presbytery of Mackinac
Rev. Christine Bergquist
Bark River United Methodist Church
First UMC of Hermansville
United Methodist Church Marquette District
Rev. Elisabeth Zant
Eden Evangelical Lutheran Church
Munising, MI
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Northern Great Lakes Synod
Heidi Gould
Marquette, MI
Marquette Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Rev. Pete Andersen
Marquette, MI
ELCA
Helen Grossman
Temple Beth Sholom
Jewish Synagogue
Rev. Stephen Gauger
Calvary Lutheran Church
Rapid River, MI
ELCA
Jan Schultz, Botanist
U.S. Forest Service (USFS)
Eastern Region 9
EK II Technical Advisor for Community Gardens
Milwaukee, WI
USFS
www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/nativegardening
Pollinator photos by Nancy Parker Hill
Rev. David Van Kley, Senior Pastor
Rev. Amanda Kossow, Associate Pastor
Messiah Lutheran Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Marquette, Michigan
Rev. David Van Kley, Senior Pastor
Rev. Amanda Kossow, Associate Pastor
NMU EK II Student Team
Katelin Bingner
Tom Merkel
Adam Magnuson
EK II social sites
www.youtube.com/EarthKeepersII
www.facebook.com/EarthKeepersII
www.twitter.com/EarthKeeperTeam
pinterest.com/EarthKeepersII/Great-Lakes-Restoration-Init...
pinterest.com/EarthKeepersII/EarthKeepers-II-and-the-EPA-...
Lake Superior Zendo
Zen Buddhist Temple
Marquette, Michigan
Rev. Tesshin Paul Lehmberg
906 226-6407
plehmber@nmu.edu
Dr. Michael Grossman, representing Jewish Temple Beth Sholom in Ishpeming, MI
Helen Grossman, representing Jewish Temple Beth Sholom in Ishpeming, MI
906-475-4009 (hm)
906-475-4127 (wk)
www.templebethsholom-ishpeming.org
www.templebethsholom-ishpeming.org/tikkun
www.templebethsholom-ishpeming.org/aboutus
Wild Rice: 8 videos
www.learningfromtheearth.org/video-interviews/wild-rice-m...
Birch – 2 videos
www.learningfromtheearth.org/video-interviews/paper-birch...
Photos (click on each name or topic to see the respective photo galleries):
www.learningfromtheearth.org/photo-gallery
www.picasaweb.google.com/Yoopernewsman/JonReport?authuser...
www.picasaweb.google.com/100329402090002004302/JonReport?...
“Albert Einstein speculated once that if bees disappeared off the surface of the earth, then humans would have only four years of life left.”
the late Todd Warner, KBIC Natural Resource Director
Links:
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project website:
Cedar Tree Institute: Zaagkii Project
www.cedartreeinstitute.org/2010/07/wings-seeds-zaagkii-pr...
www.cedartreeinstitute.org/2009/01/wings-seeds-the-zaagki...
Zaagkii Project Videos on youtube (also uploaded to dozens of internet sites):
KBIC Pollinator Preservation
www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2008/0...
Zaagkii Project Indigenous Plants Help Give New Face to Sand Point on Keweenaw Bay www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2008/0...
Zaagkii Project 2010: U.S. Forest Service & Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plants Greenhouse
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoq5xXHDF4E
United States Forest Service sponsored Zaagkii Project featured on Pollinator Live
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P3DPfxx7Jw
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #9: Teens Painting Mason Bee Houses in Northern Michigan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIIV6jrlT20
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #8: Marquette, Michigan Teens Build Mason Bee Houses
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3MBfV7ION8
Zaagkii Project Butterfly Houses: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, U.S. Forest Service
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQScEI9x7Q
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #6: "The Butterfly Lady" Susan Payant teaches teens about Monarchs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlIgsuTFSuM
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #5: Terracotta half-life, Marquette, MI band supports environment projects
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqlFCHwW30o
2009 Zaagkii Video #4: Michigan teens meet 150,000 swarming honeybees with beekeeper Jim Hayward
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2B4MEzM7w4
2009 Zaagkii Video #3: Michigan teens give away mason bee houses, honor supporters
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqfWeEgDxTY
2009 Zaagkii Project #2: Historic KBIC native plants greenhouse, USFS protects pollinators
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8H5nhvzzc
2009 Zaagkii Project #1: Students make bee houses, plant native species plants
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8jqJAQyXwE
Zaagkii Project Butterfly Houses: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, U.S. Forest Service:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQScEI9x7Q
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens, KBIC tribal youth protect pollinators
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoPJOXHt7pI
Zaagkii Project – Northern Michigan University:
www.webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSectio...
Native Village stories: Beautiful Layout by Owner Gina Boltz:
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: A Project by Ojibwe Students from the Keweenah Bay Indian Community
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
NMU Students Join Pollinator Protection Initiative
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
KBIC Tribal youth protect pollinators
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
Teens Help with Sweet Nature Project
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
USFS Success Stories:
Restoring Native Plants on the Enchanted Island
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=6274
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plant Greenhouse & Workshop
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5499
Intertribal Nursery Council Annual Meeting a Success
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=6276
New Greenhouse for KBIC Restoration
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5336
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds - An Update
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5076
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=4025
News Stories:
U.P. teens build butterfly houses, grow 26,000 indigenous plants
www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/519835.html?...
Effort to protect pollinators launched
www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/512810.html
Marquette Monthly (Sept. 2009):
www.mmnow.com/mm_archive_folder/09/0909/feature.html
As bees die, Keweena Bay Indian Community adults, teens actively protect pollinators
www.nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view...
Michigan Teens Build Butterfly Houses and Plant 26,000 Native Plants through the Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project
www.treehugger.com/culture/michigan-teens-build-butterfly...
Examples of numerous Gather.com articles with lots of photos/videos:
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens and KBIC tribal youth are protecting pollinators by building butterfly houses and planting native plants
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977550233
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Protecting Pollinators
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977428640
2009 Zaagkii Project #2: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in 2010 to build first Native American native species plants greenhouse on tribal property in U.S.
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978040745
2009 Zaagkii Project #1: Northern Michigan Teens Protect Pollinators with U.S. Forest Service, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, NMU Center for Native American Studies: Build mason bee houses, butterfly houses, distribute thousands of native species plants
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978040729
Zaagkii Project Internet sites – blogs, photos, videos etc.:
ZaagkiiProject on flickr
www.flickr.com/photos/zaagkiiproject
www.flickr.com/people/zaagkiiproject
Zaagkii on youtube:
Zaagkii on bliptv:
Zaagkii on word press:
www.zaagkiiproject.wordpress.com
Zaagkii on Blogger:
www.zaagkiiproject.blogspot.com
Zaagkii on Photobucket:
www.photobucket.com/ZaagkiiProjectWingsSeeds
www.photobucket.com/ZaagkiiProjectWingsSeeds/?start=all
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project website:
Cedar Tree Institute: Zaagkii Project
cedartreeinstitute.org/2010/07/wings-seeds-zaagkii-project
cedartreeinstitute.org/2009/01/wings-seeds-the-zaagkii-pr...
Zaagkii Project Videos on youtube (also uploaded to dozens of internet sites):
KBIC Pollinator Preservation
indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2008/08/15...
Zaagkii Project Indigenous Plants Help Give New Face to Sand Point on Keweenaw Bay indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2008/09/03...
Zaagkii Project 2010: U.S. Forest Service & Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plants Greenhouse
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoq5xXHDF4E
United States Forest Service sponsored Zaagkii Project featured on Pollinator Live
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P3DPfxx7Jw
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #9: Teens Painting Mason Bee Houses in Northern Michigan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIIV6jrlT20
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #8: Marquette, Michigan Teens Build Mason Bee Houses
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3MBfV7ION8
Zaagkii Project Butterfly Houses: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, U.S. Forest Service
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQScEI9x7Q
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #6: "The Butterfly Lady" Susan Payant teaches teens about Monarchs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlIgsuTFSuM
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #5: Terracotta half-life, Marquette, MI band supports environment projects
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqlFCHwW30o
2009 Zaagkii Video #4: Michigan teens meet 150,000 swarming honeybees with beekeeper Jim Hayward
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2B4MEzM7w4
2009 Zaagkii Video #3: Michigan teens give away mason bee houses, honor supporters
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqfWeEgDxTY
2009 Zaagkii Project #2: Historic KBIC native plants greenhouse, USFS protects pollinators
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8H5nhvzzc
2009 Zaagkii Project #1: Students make bee houses, plant native species plants
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8jqJAQyXwE
Zaagkii Project Butterfly Houses: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, U.S. Forest Service:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQScEI9x7Q
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens, KBIC tribal youth protect pollinators
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoPJOXHt7pI
Zaagkii Project – Northern Michigan University:
webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSections/A...
Native Village stories: Beautiful Layout by Owner Gina Boltz:
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: A Project by Ojibwe Students from the Keweenah Bay Indian Community
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
NMU Students Join Pollinator Protection Initiative
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
KBIC Tribal youth protect pollinators
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
Teens Help with Sweet Nature Project
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
USFS Success Stories:
Restoring Native Plants on the Enchanted Island
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=6274
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plant Greenhouse & Workshop
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5499
Intertribal Nursery Council Annual Meeting a Success
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=6276
New Greenhouse for KBIC Restoration
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5336
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds - An Update
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5076
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=4025
News Stories:
U.P. teens build butterfly houses, grow 26,000 indigenous plants
www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/519835.html?...
Effort to protect pollinators launched
www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/512810.html
Marquette Monthly (Sept. 2009):
mmnow.com/mm_archive_folder/09/0909/feature.html
As bees die, Keweena Bay Indian Community adults, teens actively protect pollinators
nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...
Michigan Teens Build Butterfly Houses and Plant 26,000 Native Plants through the Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project
www.treehugger.com/culture/michigan-teens-build-butterfly...
Examples of numerous Gather.com articles with lots of photos/videos:
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens and KBIC tribal youth are protecting pollinators by building butterfly houses and planting native plants
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977550233
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Protecting Pollinators
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977428640
2009 Zaagkii Project #2: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in 2010 to build first Native American native species plants greenhouse on tribal property in U.S.
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978040745
2009 Zaagkii Project #1: Northern Michigan Teens Protect Pollinators with U.S. Forest Service, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, NMU Center for Native American Studies: Build mason bee houses, butterfly houses, distribute thousands of native species plants
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978040729
Zaagkii Project Internet sites – blogs, photos, videos etc.:
ZaagkiiProject on flickr
www.flickr.com/photos/zaagkiiproject
www.flickr.com/people/zaagkiiproject
Zaagkii on youtube:
Zaagkii on bliptv:
Zaagkii on word press:
Zaagkii on Blogger:
Zaagkii on Photobucket:
DCM William Grant and Ms. Mary Knight hosted at their residence the Embassy’s first “Interfaith Thanksgiving Dinner" for a diverse gathering of 80 Jewish and Arab social, political, and cultural community representatives. Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Druze religious leaders, as well as representatives from the different faith communities and ethnicities within Israeli society, joined to celebrate diversity and mutual respect at the Thanksgiving dinner, with a prayer for peace given by the religious leaders present. DCM Grant highlighted the U.S. Embassy’s commitments and efforts in fostering ongoing dialogues, promoting inter-religious and intercultural communication, and partnership with the diverse communities in Israel. “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars,” the DCM said, quoting the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Photo Credit: Daviv Azagury/ U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv
DCM William Grant and Ms. Mary Knight hosted at their residence the Embassy’s first “Interfaith Thanksgiving Dinner" for a diverse gathering of 80 Jewish and Arab social, political, and cultural community representatives. Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Druze religious leaders, as well as representatives from the different faith communities and ethnicities within Israeli society, joined to celebrate diversity and mutual respect at the Thanksgiving dinner, with a prayer for peace given by the religious leaders present. DCM Grant highlighted the U.S. Embassy’s commitments and efforts in fostering ongoing dialogues, promoting inter-religious and intercultural communication, and partnership with the diverse communities in Israel. “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars,” the DCM said, quoting the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Photo Credit: Daviv Azagury/ U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv