Resolutions of the CC(DOC) - Ecology

Climate Change Primer - The Science of Global Climate Change
This is a great guide to understanding the science of climate change.

Water Pollution Primer - The Water Pollution Guide
This is a great guide to understanding the science of water pollution.

Earth Day Resources - The Poverty of Global Climate Change

Make Your Church Eco-Friendly -
Green Building Toolkit;
Bottom Line Ministries that Matter: Congregational Stewardship with Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy Technologies;
Environmental Guide for Congregations, Their Buildings and Grounds

Environmental Audit Guidebook - Guidebook

Studies -
Climate and Church: How Global Climate Change Will Impact Core Church Ministries
Cry of Creation: A Call for Climate Justice

There were several ground-breaking articles/books that led to the first Earth Day on April 24, 1970. These resources helped give the movement the traction it required. Here is a sampling of some of those resources. It is important to know these resources to help put the enviromental movement in its proper context.

BOOKS
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
The 1966 book that is widely acclaimed to have launched the modern day envirnomental movement.

Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

H. Paul Santmire, Brother Earth: Nature, God, Ecology in a Time if Crisis (1970); The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology (1985)

Thomas Berry, Dream of the Earth

Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (and anything else he has written)

ARTICLES
Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis"
This article is of particular interest because of how it implicates religion as a main cause of the ecological crises we face.

Garrett Hardin -"The Tragedy of the Commons"