Beaver Island Michigan

Oh, this is so sad. I am so sorry for Ken's passing.

Please come to join us on Friday and Saturday. Celebration of nature and sustainability on Beaver Island, and ideas and awareness of promoting solutions in ecology, renewable energy and local food systems.

The 4th Annual BI Eco-Fair is this Friday evening and All day on Saturday. All events are FREE ! Great speakers and information will be shared for ALL. Please DO look in town for the Eco Fair brochure with much more info. The complete and updated schedule will include: Friday at 6 pm at Holy Cross ...

Hi all,
We are moving the bonfire from the Brother's Place to the shores of Lake Michigan viewing Garden Island.
Bring a percussion instrument and meet us at Campsite
number 1 tonight for a gentle drumming session.
It will be a beautiful evening!
Karen T.,
Eco-Fair Committee

DONT MISS THE THIRD COAST KINGS !!!!! 9:00 at Circle M Hailing from the Metro Detroit area in south east Michigan, Third Coast Kings are a deep funk and heavy soul outfit that brings back the era of music one can only find on dusty old 45 records. Right from the beginning in 2007 the band delved int...

Welcome our Native women who will lead us in a Sacred Water Ceremony. This will not be photographed or filmed. So please do attend at around 5:15 pm on Saturday. Gennie Morgan is a member of the Sault Ste Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. She is graced as the Drum Leader for the Grandmother Moon Drum...

Melissa Mays has learned first-hand about â??Community Resilience.â?￾ She, her husband, and 3 teenage sons were poisoned and continue to struggle with Flint water. Melissa has risen to this cause and is now known all over the world for her actions and activism. Melissa is Chairman of the Environmental Caucus of the Michigan Democratic Party , Management (music) at Demise of the Enthroned and Founder & Activist at Past: Uli's Haus Of Rock and Roll in Bedlam. She studied Business Management at Baker Center for Graduate Studies. We certainly welcome Melissa and family to Beaver Island!

Yes, a special welcome to Brad - the only man with all of the women speakers! Brad has figured out how to create energy 9 different ways without burning. He is creating the ALTERNATIVES!!! Brad Kallio , owner of the Zynoc Foundation. Brad started out in Electronics in high school, later went to coll...

Elizabeth (Lisa) Del Buono, M.D., is a surgical pathologist practicing at Munson. She volunteers with the Citizensâ?? Climate Lobby and focuses on the Climate and Health Action Team, U.S. Climate and Health Alliance, Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and Healthcare Without Harm.

Peggy Case is a retired school teacher living in northern Michigan near Traverse City and has been an activist all her life, working in civil rights, peace, environmental justice movements. She is currently building a resilient homestead in northern Michigan, raising food, chickens and forage for h...

Jennifer McKay joined Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council in May of 2005.  As Policy Director, Jennifer is responsible for federal, Great Lakes Basin wide, and state policy initiatives to improve the level of protection to water resources. She is currently working on invasive species, water diversio...

Liz Kirkwood is executive director of FLOW (For Love of Water), a non-profit based in Traverse City, Mich., dedicated to protecting waters and ecosystems in the Great Lakes Basin. She is an environmental lawyer with 17 years of experience working on water, sanitation, energy, and environmental gov...

Rev Deb Hansen is a chaplain who lives a half hour south of the Straits.  She started getting involved with energy issues as a concerned citizen in 2012 after her power cooperative announced plans to build a coal plant near Lake Huron.  In 2014 after learning about the aging oil pipelines at the S...

The Eco-Fair will be awarding THIS YEARS
Eco-Champion to Pam Grassmick. Pam has been so
instrumental in so many ways to protecting and defending the ecological
resources of our ISLAND. Please come to cheer her on!!!

Thank you for posting this info. Some of the KEY folks from the Oil and Water Don't Mix coalition will be HERE, on the island, this Saturday, June 24th at the first ECO-FAIR at Heritage Park (across from Library) from 1:00 to 5:00. Come to hear their message and ask your questions!!!