Tag: first nations peoples
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April 09, 2008 09:52 AM EDT --
Environmental tipping point: Faith communities have a duty to protect the Earth, and Native Americans, other Indigenous peoples can teach us a lot about respecting nature
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September 19, 2007 10:20 AM EDT --
Inaugural Grand Island Conference in northern Michigan addressed racism, poverty, teen suicide, derogatory location names, and other issues; Centering prayer, Celtic spiritual issues discussed during Turtle . . .
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September 11, 2007 01:32 AM EDT --
Public hearings have begun on a proposed sulfide mine in Marquette County, Michigan.
The mine is commonly called the "Acid Mine" because the process that removes nickel and other minerals . . .
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April 09, 2008 09:07 AM EDT --
Greater Cleveland area - Cuyahoga County - participates in EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge
Thousands of residents in Greater Cleveland, Ohio are recycling unwanted computer electronics . . .
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October 14, 2007 07:21 PM EDT --
Students fight university plan to bulldoze a five-acre, four-year-old Native Plants project to build dorms in Marquette, Michigan
(Marquette, Michigan) - Northern Michigan University students are battling . . .
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October 26, 2007 02:58 AM EDT --
NMU President meets for an hour with students trying to save environment research project; Dr. Les Wong given ongoing petition with nearly 900 signatures to stop Native Plants Project from being uprooted . . .
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June 12, 2008 10:48 PM EDT --
Northern Michigan University Indigenous 2008 Earth Day Summit
Turtle Island Project Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard: Indigenous Peoples, women and children "are all thought of as expendable . . .
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December 28, 2007 07:56 PM EST --
An Upper Peninsula American Indian tribe and several other groups are trying to stop the state-sanctioned rape and pillage of Michigan's northern wilderness by an uncaring mining company and it's . . .
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June 19, 2008 03:33 AM EDT --
View of Erie, Pennsylvania from Presque Isle
Photo by Pat Noble, WikiProject Erie
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Pennsylvania Sea Grant Keep Unwanted Medicine out of Lake Erie Medicine Collection Day in . . .
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May 03, 2008 07:12 PM EDT --
College of Menominee Nation: EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge and a lesson in Great Lakes recycling 101
Dr. William Van Lopik, College of Menominee Nation professor of the . . .
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March 29, 2008 06:23 PM EDT --
Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is awarding grant funding for Electronic Waste (E-Waste) and Pharmaceutical Collections in eight . . .
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October 24, 2007 10:33 PM EDT --
Rainstorm briefly ends allowing Blessing of the Garden ceremony
(Marquette, Michigan) - A "Blessing of the Garden" ceremony was held recently at Lothlorien - the Northern Michigan . . .
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January 18, 2008 09:06 AM EST --
Upper Peninsula Swan Song: As state continues its betrayal of the pristine northwoods, the Governor and Hollywood use song to promote Upper Peninsula mining
Michigan Governor Jennifer . . .
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April 24, 2008 12:30 AM EDT --
Menominee tribal school students remove gang graffiti, pick up litter; College students collect 23 pounds of pills; dozens of computers in Earth Week projects connected to the EPA Great Lakes . . .
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May 03, 2008 07:00 PM EDT --
(Keshena, WI) - The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin in Keshena held massive electronic and pharmaceutical waste collections during the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge . . .
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April 25, 2008 01:19 PM EDT --
At the Metcalfe Federal Building, the unwanted medicines collection continues under the supervision of two plainclothes Chicago police officers. (Photo courtesy EPA Flow of the River Blog) . . .
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November 01, 2007 05:30 PM EDT --
Northern Michigan youth from preteen to twenties protect the earth in rebirth of 1960s student environmental activism The Emanuel Lutheran Youth group protects environment through projects, education . . .
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April 09, 2008 09:16 AM EDT --
Numerous faith communities, American Indian tribes and many others being encouraged to volunteer or participate in a large eight-state Earth Day 2008 project with events across the Great Lakes Basin . . .
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April 21, 2008 08:30 PM EDT --
"Garbage Monsters" teach lessons to tribal students in Wisconsin; Native Americans and interfaith groups help collect a million pounds of e-waste, and a million pills to reach goal . . .
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May 26, 2008 10:11 PM EDT --
EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge: L utheran Bishop Thomas A. Skrenes says - "We are all environmentalists" & "Every day is Earth Day"
Lutheran Bishop Thomas . . .
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