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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.
Wickerman Paint Jam 2016. Looks like SOMEbody needs to learn the proper runic alphabet ;)
drawings, paint, runes, tapestry.
Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary, Artemas, Pennsylvania.
June 12, 2016.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL at wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: Well, that was a crazy burn! So much shit I never expected to do, at WickerMan Burn 2016!
- Damaged Carolyn's car on the way in so that it permanently squeaks, except it got better by the time we left
- Ate a tequila worm (so much more chewing than you would imagine!) when naked-goddess-bartender poured me one, randomly. (I had to check that it wasn't something from the woods)
- Watched fireworks so dangerously close that I needed first aid for a burned eyeball (could this be why the vision in that eye went bad this year?)
- Learned to weave. On a loom. And wove some. Took video of weaving.
- worried about this spleen issue I have that is starting to feel less like a pain, and more like an actual tumor that you can distinctly feel on one side (still hurting as of 2017, CT Scan found nothing)
- controlled huge flamethrowers with laserbeams & buttons
- fun stuff on top of a 20-ft wooden ziggurat art installation (Carolyn was too scared to go up!)
- Watched a firework fireball zoom past Carolyn's head (she didn't even flinch) and catch the ground on fire 1 foot from her feet
- Made out with both members of a couple (beards can be soft?)
- Bounced in a moon bounce
- Saw Carolyn fall off a bounce-house ramp, tumbling in mid air, as onlookers screamed (one massage later, she's fine)
- Played with propane bubbles (cover hand, stick in fire, watch self burn) with zero regard for my safety or even knowing what they were ("other people aren't dying when they do this, so i'll do this, whatever this is. no, i won't ask anybody any questions about it or learn anything safety-related")
- Treated 2nd degree cooking burn with actual aloe leaves someone bundled up, just in case. Only had to walk 20 feet from my camp! No relation to previous bullet point.
- Tried [REDACTED]
- Used logical deduction to guide a damsel in distress to her campsite that she could not find, even though I had never been there. (If you want to flatter me, make me feel like Aragorn. I also accept pints of cherry tomatoes & great conversation)
- Received tons of compliments about my hair & badass cartoon shirt (and about my brain) (but I get that a lot... it's the others I'm not so used to)
- Worried about Andrea in rehab. Did all kinds of crazy things to maintain connectivity to check up on her. A lotta good that did. RIP, Andrea.
- Learned to always great one specific person with "Hi, Clint!" (Her name is not Clint. This is how she prefers greetings.)
- Wore My Little Pony boxer-briefs around strangers
- Sent video from the middle of the woods with a phone that only works when plugged in (tricky)
- Met the creator of games I've played for 15 yrs, & found out that the vintage set of game pieces my aunt found me in a thrift store are so rare that he was re-telling people about our set... Even when we weren't even there. So honored! To tell the man who invented Fluxx that you had the original Fluxx back when that was the only Fluxx you could get was awesome, too.
- But to make a reference to a specific episode of 2 Stupid Dogs to the creator of Fluxx, and have him know it and repeat it back... Wow.
- Chastised by Channy for not knowing how to spell my own name on facebook, becuase she wanted pictoral proof of my story that did not believe -- that the deer shit that came out of the deer when my Bonneville was totalled (while driving back from Dirk's) had splattered onto my car in the shape of Pluto the Dog's face. I totally sent her that picture!
- Lost 1 of 2 cameras, resulting in our pictures being quite incomplete (gee, real Burnery of whoever found it to not bother giving it back. If I find someone else's camera, I guess this means I'll have to keep it to break even?)
- Learned I can consistently inhale an entire nitrous oxide cartridge in one lungful
- Randomly given 2 beers by someone, only to ask to see her face, and, after introductions, us all realizing we already know each other already and are FB friends already (wtf?! what are the odds?!)
Saw a truck covered in fire driving down the mountain like nothing was going on. Overheard: "Are you seeing that? Is that real?"
Phew? Did I get everything? I don't know! One night, I never saw my camp during the night time, at all.
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
Since the Nichols College Chaplaincy is not assocated with a single religion, a banner depicting each of the world's major religeons hangs in the front of the chapel.
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
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
An excerpt: 'A perfect man is one who successfully manages to accommodate God inside him. Without God living in you, you are an incomplete human being.A perfect man is one who successfully manages to accommodate God inside him. Without God living in you, you are an incomplete human being'
Read the article here: medium.com/@YounusAlGohar/the-essentiality-of-spiritualit...
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
Clint convinced Carolyn to climb to the middle of the ziggurat. Look at her holding on for dear life.
The ziggurat was a huge art project that is traveling from burn-to-burn for people to write on, and then it's eventually going to be burned as an effigy.
We actually made it to the burn this year! We didn't sleep through it.
climbing, holding on.
hula hoop, ziggurat sculpture.
Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary, Artemas, Pennsylvania.
June 11, 2016.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL at wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL at wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: Well, that was a crazy burn! So much shit I never expected to do, at WickerMan Burn 2016!
- Damaged Carolyn's car on the way in so that it permanently squeaks, except it got better by the time we left
- Ate a tequila worm (so much more chewing than you would imagine!) when naked-goddess-bartender poured me one, randomly. (I had to check that it wasn't something from the woods)
- Watched fireworks so dangerously close that I needed first aid for a burned eyeball (could this be why the vision in that eye went bad this year?)
- Learned to weave. On a loom. And wove some. Took video of weaving.
- worried about this spleen issue I have that is starting to feel less like a pain, and more like an actual tumor that you can distinctly feel on one side (still hurting as of 2017, CT Scan found nothing)
- controlled huge flamethrowers with laserbeams & buttons
- fun stuff on top of a 20-ft wooden ziggurat art installation (Carolyn was too scared to go up!)
- Watched a firework fireball zoom past Carolyn's head (she didn't even flinch) and catch the ground on fire 1 foot from her feet
- Made out with both members of a couple (beards can be soft?)
- Bounced in a moon bounce
- Saw Carolyn fall off a bounce-house ramp, tumbling in mid air, as onlookers screamed (one massage later, she's fine)
- Played with propane bubbles (cover hand, stick in fire, watch self burn) with zero regard for my safety or even knowing what they were ("other people aren't dying when they do this, so i'll do this, whatever this is. no, i won't ask anybody any questions about it or learn anything safety-related")
- Treated 2nd degree cooking burn with actual aloe leaves someone bundled up, just in case. Only had to walk 20 feet from my camp! No relation to previous bullet point.
- Tried [REDACTED]
- Used logical deduction to guide a damsel in distress to her campsite that she could not find, even though I had never been there. (If you want to flatter me, make me feel like Aragorn. I also accept pints of cherry tomatoes & great conversation)
- Received tons of compliments about my hair & badass cartoon shirt (and about my brain) (but I get that a lot... it's the others I'm not so used to)
- Worried about Andrea in rehab. Did all kinds of crazy things to maintain connectivity to check up on her. A lotta good that did. RIP, Andrea.
- Learned to always great one specific person with "Hi, Clint!" (Her name is not Clint. This is how she prefers greetings.)
- Wore My Little Pony boxer-briefs around strangers
- Sent video from the middle of the woods with a phone that only works when plugged in (tricky)
- Met the creator of games I've played for 15 yrs, & found out that the vintage set of game pieces my aunt found me in a thrift store are so rare that he was re-telling people about our set... Even when we weren't even there. So honored! To tell the man who invented Fluxx that you had the original Fluxx back when that was the only Fluxx you could get was awesome, too.
- But to make a reference to a specific episode of 2 Stupid Dogs to the creator of Fluxx, and have him know it and repeat it back... Wow.
- Chastised by Channy for not knowing how to spell my own name on facebook, becuase she wanted pictoral proof of my story that did not believe -- that the deer shit that came out of the deer when my Bonneville was totalled (while driving back from Dirk's) had splattered onto my car in the shape of Pluto the Dog's face. I totally sent her that picture!
- Lost 1 of 2 cameras, resulting in our pictures being quite incomplete (gee, real Burnery of whoever found it to not bother giving it back. If I find someone else's camera, I guess this means I'll have to keep it to break even?)
- Learned I can consistently inhale an entire nitrous oxide cartridge in one lungful
- Randomly given 2 beers by someone, only to ask to see her face, and, after introductions, us all realizing we already know each other already and are FB friends already (wtf?! what are the odds?!)
Saw a truck covered in fire driving down the mountain like nothing was going on. Overheard: "Are you seeing that? Is that real?"
Phew? Did I get everything? I don't know! One night, I never saw my camp during the night time, at all.
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
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.
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
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
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
President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses Armed Forces Interfaith Service at Mittah Seperepere Convention Centre in Kimberley. (Photo: GCIS)
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
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
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