Susan Bodine is Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste. According to whitehouse.gov: Before her appointment, Ms. Bodine served as Staff Director and Senior Counsel for the Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee of the House...
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Susan Bodine is Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste. According to whitehouse.gov: Before her appointment, Ms. Bodine served as Staff Director and Senior Counsel for the Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. She previously served as Associate Attorney for Covington and Burling in Washington, DC. Ms. Bodine received her bachelor's degree from Princeton University and her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.
Over 12,000 trees planted by Northern Michigan interfaith EarthKeepers during early May across 400 miles of northern Michigan and Minocqua, Wisconsin
Raging forest fires underline importance of planting trees
Earth Day 2009: First tree planted and blessed by northern Michigan bishops and faith leaders on Earth Day 2009 near shores of Lake Superior at Presque Isle in Marquette
(Marquette, Michigan) – Northern Michigan residents planted more than 12,000 trees in early May across... Read Full Story
EarthKeepers first high definition video:
Earth Day 2009 along Lake Superior in Marquette, MI
Bishops, faith leaders bless, plant 1st of 12,000 trees
(Marquette, Michigan) - Despite a major snowstorm a day earlier, bishops and leaders from northern Michigan’s largest faith communities planted the first of 12,000 trees during an Earth Day ceremony on the shores of Lake Superior.
Standing on a hillside surrounded by huge pine trees two bishops and several other faith leaders blessed... Read Full Story
It’s Happening! And it’s colorful!
Update as rainbow marks start of EarthKeeper Tree Project: Across northern Michigan 12,000 trees bagged, delivery for Sunday, May 3 record planting
Rainbow appears over Grace Presbyterian Church in Sagola as volunteers across northern Michigan prepare 12,000 trees for planting by about 100 churches and temples during interfaith Upper Peninsula EarthKeeper Tree Project. (Sagola Photos provided by Jessica Schultz, EarthKeeper volunteer)
Volunteers... Read Full Story
Upper Peninsula Earth Keeper Team announced plans for 2009 while accepting the prestigious White Pine Award from the Michigan Sierra Club The Michigan Sierra Club presented its "White Pine Award" to the Upper Peninsula Earth Keepers on Thursday, Nov. 13 at a ceremony in Marquette. Pictured in the rear, left to right, are David McCowen of Lake Superior Friends (Quakers); Rev. Jon Magnuson, Earth Keeper Initiative co-founder and executive director of the non-profit Cedar Tree... Read Full Story
Northern Michigan University (NMU) Health & Nutrition Professor Mohey Mowafy (above left) of Marquette introduced Imam Hassan Qazwini (center) to an eager audience of mostly Christians for a living room chat. Rev. Warren Geier (right) of Bethany Lutheran Church in Ishpeming, MI was among several Lutheran pastors on hand. Imam Qazwini answered a wide range of questions including the murder of many of his family members in Iraq, the War in Iraq, hunting, interfaith environment... Read Full Story
“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 of EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge
(Kesenha, Wisconsin) - Tribal school students and their parents recently learned a creative lesson about the environment and the human capability to waste as they rummaged through their trash to find discarded items that were used to make the heads, legs... Read Full Story
Challenging a progressive interfaith stake in the worlds environmental future: Million pounds e-waste, Million pills goal of EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge
(Chicago, Illinois) - Progressive faith leaders across eight Great Lakes states are urging their members to participate in an Earth Day 2008 challenge to collect one million pounds of electronics and more than one million pills because trust is needed between all people to stop an environmental crisis.
The U.S... Read Full Story
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 Implementing Sustainable Development classes
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin contributed over 4 tons of electronic and pharmaceutical waste to the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
This is the first of several vidoes explaining the tribes numerous projects that included cleaning up... Read Full Story
(Milwaukee, WI) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency held a press conference with City of Milwaukee officials about the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
Milwaukees Earth Day Challenge event on Saturday, April 26 is a one-day electronic scrap collection hosted by the city of Milwaukee Department of Public Works.
Those speaking the April 16, 2008 press conference included EPA deputy regional administrator Bharat Mathur (EPA Region 5 Office in Chicago, Ill.), Milwaukee... Read Full Story
(Keshena, Wisconsin) - The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin contributed over 4 tons of electronic and pharmaceutical waste to the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
This is the second of several videos explaining the numerous MITW projects including teaching youth about the legend of the sturgeon and its place in tribal culture, cleaning up the reservation, replacing gang symbols with Native American art and making garbage monsters.
In part two, the non-profit interfaith... Read Full Story
