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 and that have helped fuel the movement.
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"
