Environment

Midwest SOARRING Foundation works to honor Mother Earth. Our resources are precious to us and all creation. We have evolved into a throw-away and destructive society.

What is happening to our resources?

What is happening to our Mother?

Will we realize our mistakes when it is too late? Now is the time to recycle. Now is the time to use alternative energy choices. Now is the time to protect our resources. Now is the time to protect creation.

The trees, they talk. Can you hear them?

The four-leggeds, wingeds and those that swim, they talk too. Do you hear them? Why not?

Open yourself up to hear. Listen. Respect. Once you do, you will understand our Mother and creation. You will change.

Our mission statement states that SOARRING will take part in environmental issues. Our knowledge will lead us to think and act in a way that we will remember to do things with the next seven generations in mind. Our belief is to educate about our Mother and how we are no better than any other part of creation. We need to know the responsibility we have to respect and care for our Mother.

Some of our past concerns include:

Fighting to keep the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge free of oil drilling.
Fighting the Snowbowl Ski resort use of waste water to make snow on our sacred mountains in Arizona, contaminating medicine plants.
Enjoying Plum Island, as a protected burial ground and dedicated eagle sanctuary located adjacent to the Starved Rock State Park in Utica Illinois.
Developing a teaching resource center for environmental issues for the purpose of advising different groups on the preservation of Mother Earth. This includes teaching our young people the value of life and caring for our environment. This continues to be an ongoing project.
Standing with many other environmentalists to stop the fracking adjacent to Starved Rock State Park.

While showing a friend from the Arctic around town, we found out that she did not know what a land-fill was. The Gwich'in live in traditional ways; only take what is needed and use it to its fullest, completely. Very little is wasted there. They don't belong to the throw-away generation. We need to go back to living this way. Nothing is more important than respecting our Mother Earth.