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ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE WEB SITES
A site
describing hybrid electric vehicles, their development, current status, and
future plans.
A U.S.
Department of Energy site providing specific energy savings data from hybrid
automobiles.
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/ResourceCenterToolsCalculators.html
Greenhouse gas emissions calculators are available online from the US EPA.
These interactive calculators help estimate the greenhouse gas emissions of
human activities and identify and compare emissions reduction options.
The site also provides gas mileage (MPG), greenhouse gas
emissions, air pollution ratings, and safety information for new and used cars
and trucks.
http://www.climatestar.org
This site
from the Earth Communications Office and The Union of Concerned Scientists
offers valuable information on global warming, climate choices, and tools for
calculating your environmental footprint. The SafeClimate carbon footprint
calculator allows you to determine carbon dioxide emissions from major
sources: home energy consumption and transportation by car and plane.
Computer Use
A site comparing cathode
ray tube (CRT) to flat-panel liquid crystal display
(LCD) monitors usage.
Guidelines on how to lower electricity
consumption of computers.
Guidelines
for energy saving on computer equipment.
A
site comparing cathode ray tube
(CRT) to flat-panel liquid crystal display (LCD)
monitors usage.
A site
detailing the energy savings from using LCDs as opposed to CRTs for
computer use.
Congregational Helps
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=small_business.sb_congregations
Download the no-cost ENERGY STAR for Congregations Guide:
"Putting Energy into
Stewardship" to learn ways that your congregation can achieve
energy efficiency. Become an ENERGY STAR partner for free technical support,
information, awards eligibility, e-mail updates, and your free hard copy of
"Putting Energy into Stewardship" for your congregation.
Learn about new building design, access technical resources, and find expert
help.
http://www.earthministry.org/Congregations/greening_resources.htm#Links%20to%20Greening%20Dimensions%20of%20Congregational%20Life
A comprehensive resource on greening congregations with great
background information, step-by-step guides, and links to many practical helps.
Energy Audit Tools
A web-based
energy audit tool.
Environmental Organizations
http://www.ourplanet.com
"Our Planet" is the United Nations Environment Program's flagship magazine for
environmentally sustainable development. Published quarterly, each issue
concentrates on one specific theme, tying into international conferences,
meetings, events, and otherwise dealing with issues of our time. Available
on-line and in hard copy in English, French and Spanish.
http://www.eere.energy.gov/greenpower
The Green Power Network (GPN) provides news and information on
green power markets and related activities. The site is operated and maintained
by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy.
Frequently updated, the site contains information on and links to green power
providers and their product offerings, utility green pricing programs, and net
metering and other policies that affect green power markets. The GPN also
includes a reference library of relevant papers, articles and reports.
http://www.wri.org/
The World
Resources Institute is an environmental research and policy organization that
creates solutions to protect the planet and improve people's lives. This site is
a wealth of current information including global topics, EarthTrends- The
Environmental Information Portal, a newsroom, publications and multimedia,
and ways to take action.
Empowerment Institute (EI) is
an international consulting, training and project management company. It
specializes in behavior change program design, organizational capacity
building and implementation of large scale community and organizational
transformation projects. The site has many resources directed at solving
environmental issues.
biodiversityproject.org
The Biodiversity Project's Mission is to add strength and value to the
environmental movement's public outreach on biodiversity. Working with
partners in advocacy, education, science, communications, grantmaking and
other fields. Our Vision is to build a public majority that cares about the
variety of life on earth and the living interconnections that make life
possible, and to empower and motivate people to take action to protect and
conserve this biodiversity, both at home and in a global context.
orionsociety.org
The Orion society is an award winning publisher, and environmental education
organization, and a communication support network for grassroots environmental
and community organization across North America. It is a nonprofit membership
organization with 8000 members, individual and organizational, representing
all fifty states and thirty-one foreign counties.
The website
for the Energy Savings Trust whose goal is to achieve the sustainable and
efficient use of energy. The site has many practical helps for energy
efficiency in homes and business.
Green Products
www.responsibleshopper.org
This sites provides people with instant access to research and
statistics on over 400 corporations with regard to their practices, products,
and policies on various environmental and social issues. Sponsored by Coop
America, the site offers an email feature, allowing you to communicate
immediately and directly with companies whose social and environmental
problems are highlighted on the site.
Green Seal's mission is to
achieve a more sustainable world by promoting environmentally responsible
production, purchasing, and products. The site deals with greening
government programs, certifying and recommending products, and
providing publication references.
This site
helps you to find green products, to build green, and analyze your energy use.
ESP Energy has
innovative products to help reduce energy consumption.
Energy Star
lists their endorsed products and where to get them as well as providing
useful tips for home and business energy efficiency.
Key Charters, Statements, Summits
http://www.earthcharter.org
This Earth Charter site involves a joint initiative of a lot of groups
interested in developing a framework statement on humankind's relationship with
the earth. The Charter, which had origins linked to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, has been distributed widely for sign-on and endorsement, and
has served as an excellent tool for focusing attention on specific activities.
The site contains diverse information directed at the local
community/congregational level, as well as educational programs.
http://www.iisd.ca/wssd/portal.html
This site contains information on the World Summit on Sustainable Development
that was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August/September 2002. The "WSSD
Outcome Documents" section on the home page contains the two key documents that
were finalized at the Summit: Plan of Implementation (4 pages); and Political
Declaration (54 pages).
Religious/Theological
www.webofcreation.org
The Web of Creation is an interdenominational/interfaith
organization working to provide on-line environmental resources for faith-based
communities, based on the belief that religion is a crucial factor in issues of
ecology and justice. Check out their special sites dealing with worship,
religious education, congregational lifestyle, personal lifestyle, and public
ministry & advocacy.
http://www.crle.org
Center for Respect of Life and Environment "The Center was
founded in 1986 to foster an ethic of compassion toward all sentient beings and
respect for the integrity of nature. With a particular focus on higher
educations and religious institutions, the Center promotes a humane and
sustainable future for all members of the earth community."
www.earthministry.org
Earth Ministry is a tax-exempt, non-profit Christian, environment, ecumenical
ministry incorporated in the State of Washington. Its mission is to engage
individuals and congregations in knowing God more fully through deepening
relationships with all of God’s creation. Its belief is that through this
experience our personal lives and our culture will be transformed. These
transformations include simplified living, environmental stewardship, justice
for all creation, and a worldview, which sees creation as a revelation of God.
Together these lead to a rediscovery of the vitality of the Christian
faith. This site contains a tremendous variety of resource material for use in
sermons, Sunday school classes, youth camps, special activities in church and
the community, etc.
http://www.stewards.net/About.htm
Interfaith Council for Environmental Stewardship (Serving Humanity and Ecology
Through Faith and Reason). Highlights the Cornwall Declaration on Environmental
Stewardship from Jews, Catholics, and Protestants. The site has an extensive
theological, scientific and economic resource link page.
http://www.cep.unt.edu/ecotheo.html
A bibliography of the theology behind much of Christianity's
response to environmental concerns. Compiled by John B. Cobb, Jr., this
bibliography of English-language material is based largely on selections from
half a dozen other bibliographies supplemented by some independent research. It
is fairly thorough up to 1992, progressively less so thereafter. Individual
essays are not separately listed if they are in books, magazines, or special
issues of journals that are listed as sections at the end of the bibliography.
http://www.NRPE.org
The National Religious Partnership for the Environment is a formal alliance of
major faith groups and denominations across the spectrum of Jewish and Christian
communities and organizations in the U.S. It includes the National Council of
Churches of Christ network, as well as Jewish, Catholic and Evangelical
networks. Go to the National Council of Churches of Christ site, for example,
and you will find a wealth of information pertinent to local congregations,
sermon themes, environmental issues, etc.
http://environment.harvard.edu/religion
The Harvard Forum on Religion and Ecology provides a systematic effort to
explore environmental questions from the perspective of ten of the world's most
pervasive religious traditions. This multi-disciplinary research between
religion, science, economics, ethics, education, and public policy scholars, is
helping us to understand some of the most complicated social and environmental
problems of our time.
http://www.amacad.org/publications/fall2001/fall2001.aspx
Daedalus, a journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, published a
special issue in 2001 on Religion and Ecology. It brings together diverse
perspectives from the world's religious traditions regarding attitudes toward
nature with reflections from the field of science, public policy, and ethics.
The 17 scholars whose articles appear in this volume identify symbolic,
scriptural, and ethical dimensions within particular religions in their relation
with the natural world. They examine these dimensions both historically and in
response to contemporary environmental problems.
CONGREGATIONAL PRINTED RESOURCES
Building a Firm
Foundation: "Green" Building Toolkit.
A practical resource guide to building with energy efficient technologies and
sustainable building techniques.
Greening Congregations
Handbook. Complied and edited by
Tanya Marcovna Barnett. Earth
Ministry, 6512 23rd Ave. NW. St. 317, Seattle, SA 98117. 206-632-2426. May be
ordered from website:
http://www.earthministry.org/Congregations/handbook.htm. One of the most comprehensive, practical resources
for congregations including stories, ideas, and resources for cultivating
creation awareness and care in your congregation. It addresses community,
knowledge, activity, and strategy pathways for cultivating awareness and care.
The handbook takes the congregation through mission statement, worship,
education, institutional life, community outreach, and ecumenical/interfaith
dimensions of greening congregations. Also a number of readings are included
highlighting why people of faith care for creation. The Appendix includes
worship, bioregion, denominational, music, and congregational self-exploration
resources.
On Your Way to Good
Environmental and Economic Stewardship, Energy Star Guide for Congregations.
Center for Energy and Environmental Education (CEEE), University of Northern
Iowa Cedar Falls, IA 50614. 800-288-1346. This resource provides a simple
checklist for energy savings plus suggestions for calculating the actual saving.
Energy Conservation
Reference and Management Guide. Produced by the State of Michigan Energy
Resources Division, Sept. 1996 by Jerry N. Nash 517-334-7236.
This manual is produced as an energy
conservation reference and management guide for churches. It is an attempt to
bring together, in a usable format, in a usable format, some of the wealth of
practical suggestions and experience to be found in the energy field. It
consists of six sections, each addressing a different aspect of a total
energy conservation program. This is a manual and not a book to be read from
cover to cover. Each section contains practical information and suggested
procedures and forms designed to be used in implementing a specific part of an
energy conservation program. There are sample forms included in this manual,
which are designed to be removed, copied and use to implement and monitor your
program.
Faith-Based Environmental
Justice Resources for Youth and Children. Complied and edited by Tina B.
Krause, March 1997. Additional copies are available for $2.50 from:
Environmental Justice Resources National Council of the Churches, P.O. Box 968
Elkhart, Indiana 46515. 800-762-0968 or 219-264-3102. This contains lists of
resources under the following topics; faith-based environmental educational
resources, age-level curricula with environmental themes, selected inspirational
books, selected resources for educators, audiovisual resources, organizations
and denominations, publishers, and distributors.
Environmental Justice
Resources, National Council of Churches of Christ, May 1999. This resource
is available at no cost from NCCC, P.O. Box 968, Elkhart, Indiana 46515-0968.
800-762-0968 or fax 219-262-0966. A four-page resource that contains a brief
bibliography and description of publications for children, congregations,
environmental issues and an order form.
Albert Fritsch, S.J.,
Eco-Church, An Action Manual (San Jose, California: Resource Publications,
Inc., 1992).
Frederick W. Krueger, The Lord’s House
(Wynnewood, Pennsylvania: Green Cross-Macalester Park, 1995).
MAGAZINES AND NEWSLETTERS
Creation Care is published quarterly by
the Evangelical Environmental Network. EEN is one of the ministries of the
National Religious Partnership for the Environment. It is affiliated with such
ministries as Habitat for Humanity, WorldVision, International Bible Society,
and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. The magazine strives to help readers care
for creation in a way that is faithful to Jesus Christ, biblical revelation, and
scientific analysis. Subscription information: $30 donation U.S. mail to EEN, 10 E.
Lancaster Ave., Wynnewood, Pa. 19096-3495. 1-800-650-6600.
THEOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Robert D. Bullard, Confronting
Environmental Racism (Boston, Massachusetts: South End Press, 1993).
Calvin B. DeWitt, Earth-Wise (Grand
Rapids, Michigan: CRC Publications, 1994).
Michael Dowd, Earthspirit (Mystic,
Connecticut: Twenty-Third Publications, 1991).
Albert J. Fritsch, S.J., Renew the Face
of the Earth (Chicago, IL: Loyola University Press, 1987).
L. Robert Keck, Ph.D., Sacred Eyes
(Boulder, Colorado: Synergy Associates, Inc., 1992).
Jay B. McDaniel, With Roots and Wings (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books,
1995).
Jurgen Moltmann, God in Creation (San Francisco, California: Harper
SanFrancisco, 1991).
Larry L. Rasmussen, Earth Community Earth
Ethics (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1997).
Loren Wilkinson, Earth Keeping in the ‘90s
(Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1980).
CHILDREN’S BIBLIOGRAPHY
Christie L. Jenkins, Ph.D., Love Our
Neighbor, The Earth (San Jose, California: Resource Publications, Inc.,
1991).
Christie L. Jenkins, Ph.D., Your Will Be Done On Earth (San Jose,
California: Resource Publications, Inc., 1993).
Kristen Kemper, Caring For God’s World
(Prescott, Arizona: Educational Ministries, Inc., 1991).
Jenepher Lingelbach, Hands-On Nature
(Woodstock, Vermont: Vermont Institute of Natural Science, 1986).
Isia Osuchowska, The Gift (Boston,
Massachusetts: Wisdom Publications, 1996).
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, A Prayer for the
Earth, (Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1996).
Chief Seattle, Brother Eagle, Sister Sky,
(New York, New York: Dial Books, 1991).
VIDEOS
The Greening of the Faith – Why the
Environment is a Christian Concern, Program One:
Theology & Spirituality, Program Two: Ethics, 27 & 30 minutes respectfully.
Program one explores biblical foundations for ecology, creation spiritually in
Christian tradition, nature as sacramental and the reconnection of faith and
science. Program two contains topics on environment and justice, the extension
of ethical obligation beyond the human species and focuses on the unique role
the Church can play in the formation of attitudes and the enabling of change.
Cathedral Films and Video P.O. Box 4029, Westlake Village, CA. 91359
Affluenza and
Escape From Affluenza. The first video is 57 minutes in length and is a
fascinating look at one of the greatest social maladies of our time: over
consumption and materialism. Hosted by national public radio’s Scott Simon.
Affluenza explores both the comical and sobering aspects of our consumerism
and its enormous impact on our families, communities and the environment.
Escape From Affluenza, is hosted by former Los Angles newspaper reporter
Wanda Urbanka. This video uses thought-provoking vignettes and humor to show
people how they can reduce their consumption and simplify their lives. Copies of
both videos and be obtained from KCTS Videos, $24.95 plus shipping by calling
1-800-937-5387 or online at
channel9store.com.
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