Joe Reilly has been a singer, songwriter, and guitarist for over twelve years and has had extensive performance and touring experience, bringing messages of hope and peace in his songs to audiences in the Midwest and across the United States. Both of his parents are singers and guitarists and Joe grew up listening to their classical and liturgical music in his home and church, learning that music can be prayerful, healing, and celebratory. With their help he began to teach himself to play guitar and sing. In addition to self-instruction he has also studied voice and guitar privately and at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. Joe is Italian, Irish, and Native American (Cherokee). His background in the study and performance of many different musical styles, including Native American music, folk, blues, jazz, liturgical, and classical, as well as his academic studies of environmental justice and racism and spiritual roots in Catholicism and Native American religions has led to a writing style that incorporates these diverse influences into a unique and powerful voice.

This program is an effort to map out all of the non-motorized connected routes across Oakland County, and less directly, establish a system of motor-free transportation routes. These are all trails and small roads for biking, walking, and other means of motor-free transportation.

This is a program dedicated to maintaining conservation efforts on Oakland County golf courses through various programs. The program includes use of alternative fertilizer, buying green, following environmental regulations, and more.

This is a Prescribed Fire program used in several parks, in order to promote environmental wellness. Fires are a natural part of many forest ecosystems, and this program monitors and maintains the use of fire in order to uphold the health of parks.

This is a greenhouse bought and owned by Oakland County, which is dedicated to education in gardening and botany, as well as conservation. The project isn’t yet fully formed, and simply grows plants for local parks, golf courses, etc.