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Interfaith Earth Healing Message from Lutheran Bishop Thomas A. Skrenes about the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge
Posted at 12:56 AM on April 21, 2008 by Yoopernewsman
An Interfaith Earth Healing Message from Bishop Thomas A. Skrenes about the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge A Lutheran Bishop who has participated in interfaith Earth Day recycling projects for three years in a row encourages people of all faiths to get involved and help protect the environment. Interfaith environment projects like the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge will help ensure a better future for all humans, according to Lutheran Bishop Thomas A. Skrenes of the Northern Great Lakes Synod (NGLS) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The challenge involves about 40 projects in hundreds of communities across eights states including recycling electronics (e-Waste), properly disposing of pharmaceuticals and everyday poisons (called Household Hazardous Waste - HHW), and cleaning up communities across the Great Lakes basin. The U.S. Environmental Projection Agency has provided grants to some of the cities and to the Earth Healing... Read More »
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| Name: | Greg Peterson |
| Gender: | Male |
| Date of Birth: | September 22, 1959 |
| City: | Negaunee |
| State: | Michigan |
| Country: | United States |
| Hometown: | The World |
| Web Site: | http://www.myspace.com/yoopernewsman |
| About Me: | I am a news reporter, writer and investigative journalist specializing in street news, plus civil rights and environment reporting Began my career over 30 years ago as a young teenager in Augusta, GA after moving south during the middle of high school. I was co-coordinator of the 1986 original James Brown Appreciation Day in Augusta, GA, where the Godfather of Soul was always trashed by the local media who found no reasons to print or report anything positive about the music icon. Mr. Terence %@s was the other co-coordinator and most recently served as chair of the Augusta Human Relations Commission and still a member of the Georgia Clients Council. Mr. Brown taught us to "fight the good fight" by battling all forms of racism and evil while not uttering a bad word about those who try to block justice, respect, fairness and kindness to all. As a child, I also lived in the Harbert, Michigan home built by late poet Carl Sandburg - where the legendary authored penned some of his greatest works including his Chicago works and Lincoln papers. The huge home had a sundeck on the top and a cool walk-in safe in the basement. The neighborhood - called Birchwood - has numerous cottages used for other purposes by the Sandburgs including the milk house where they milked goats. When my parents remodeled the fourth floor of the home that stands atop the Lake Michigan sand dunes/bluffs - they found items that belonged to Mr. Sandburg concealed in the walls including prescription bottles (with name), reading gl^s;, and a small, thin metal stamp with his name. I have worked for dozens of newspapers and radio and TV stations in GA and MI. I am the volunteer media advisor for several large environmental projects across Upper Peninsula of MI including the Earth Keeper Initiative, the Manoomin Project and the Turtle Island Project. The group has many environmental projects including an annual Earth Day Clean Sweep at two dozen free drop off sites across a 400 mile area of northern Michigan that has collected over 370 tons of household hazardous waste since 2005 (total collection time: 9 hours or 3 hours each year). The 2007 Earth Keeper Pharmaceutical Clean Sweep collected over one ton of drugs plus $5000,000 in narcotics in only three hours. Some 2,000 residents participated and many brought in pharmaceuticals for their family, friends and neighbors. In 2006, some 10,000 people dropped off over 320 tons of old/broken computers, cell phones and other electronic waste, all of which was recycled. In 2005, residents turned in 45 tons of household poisons and vehicle batteries. In 2007, over one ton of pharmaceuticals and $500,000 in narcotics was turned in by more than 2,000 people at 19 sites - plus personal care products likes shampoos, perfumes etc. The Manoomin (Wild Rice) Project teaches at-risk teens (just sentenced in juvenile court) to respect nature and themselves by having American Indian guides escort them to very remote lakes and streams in northern Michigan to plant and care for wild rice. The teens conduct water quality and other tests to determine the best conditions for the once native grain to survive. The newly formed Turtle Island project was founded by Rev. Lynn Hubbard in Munising, Michigan. Environment projects are being planned as well as regional and national conferences on respecting the culture and heritage of indigenous peoples aka First Nation peoples (American Indians). Rev. Hubbard is providing a platform for American Indians to be heard - unedited by whites. - whom Rev. Hubbard says don’t have the knowledge or right to speak on behalf of Native Americans. I have always specialized in civil rights, outdoor, environmental, cops and courts reporting thanks to my late mentor Jay Mann (Jan Tillman Hutchens), an investigative reporter in Augusta, who lived by the books "Illusions" and "Jonathon Livingston Seagull." I love to fish, hunt, camp and skydive. A member of the Delta Chi national fraternity, I was very active in student projects through my schools years from Junior Achievement, to all forms of band (played cornet) to cross country, track, and football (I wasn’t very good). |
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| Interested In: | interfaith environmentl/civil rights projects, hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, skydiving |
| Favorite Music: | James Brown gospel, rock, southern rock, country, jazz, many others |
| Favorite Movies: | The Blues Brothers, 24, Saturday Night Live (original), CSI and several police dramas, Cops, A night to Remember, Jericho, Eureka, |
| Favorite Books: | Jonathon Livingston Seagull, Illusions |
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very cute and funny. Thank you God for making us laugh and for humor in the midst of serious times
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This is so true!! They will know we are Christians by our love!! Jesus tells us this is the most important commandment! So as christians we need to check...
