"Our religious vocation for the foreseeable future is Earthkeeping" ---Larry Rasmussen Community food security is a condition in which all community residents obtain a safe, culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate diet through a sustainable food system that maximizes community self-reliance and social justice. http://www.foodsecurity.org/index.html http://www.foodsecurity.org/views_cfs_faq.html http://www.foodsecurity.org/links.html http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/how_res.html
www.ecoschools.com
The National Religious Partnership for the Environment is an association of independent faith groups across a broad spectrum. Its four founding partners include: The U.S. Catholic Conference, the National Council of Churches of Christ, the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, and the Evangelical Environmental Network. The Partnership is integrating care for God's creation throughout religious life: theology, worship, social teaching, education, congregational life, and public policy initiative. And we seek to provide inspiration, moral vision, and commitment to social justice for all efforts to protect the natural world and human well-being within it.
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
--- Office of Social Development & World Peace http://www.nccbuscc.org/sdwp/ejp/index.htm
Caring for God's Creation The Environmental Justice Program (EJP) calls Catholics to a deeper respect for God's creation and engages parishes in activities that deal with environmental problems, particularly as they affect the poor.
Web of Creation -- National Council of Churches of Christ
http://www.webofcreation.org/index.html
The Web of Creation is an interdenominational/interfaith organization working to provide on-line environmental resources for faith-based communities. Religious communities have essential, unique resources to help people create a sustainable lifestyle for our planet. We believe our actions to help Earth survive are a manifestation of our religious values and spiritual experience. The Web of Creation provides information on environmental crises and resources for possible solutions. Our goal is to support and inform religious organizations and others in their work to create communities of responsible caretakers of creation with effective public leaders. We believe collective and individual lifestyle changes are important tools in creating spiritual transformation toward a worldview based on nature's systems and spiritual values of cooperation, connection and commitment. http://www.webofcreation.org/lens/care4create.html LENS - Lutheran Earthkeeping Network of the Synods New Book: The Splendor of Creation: a Biblical Ecology by Ellen Bernstein. http://www.webofcreation.org/lens/reflect.html Some thoughts from Larry Rasmussen: "Our religious vocation for the foreseeable future is Earthkeeping" "Fidelity to God now expresses itself as fidelity to the Earth." "Earth and its distress is the Christian Song of Songs."
The Web of Creation is an interdenominational/interfaith organization working to provide on-line environmental resources for faith-based communities. Religious communities have essential, unique resources to help people create a sustainable lifestyle for our planet. We believe our actions to help Earth survive are a manifestation of our religious values and spiritual experience. The Web of Creation provides information on environmental crises and resources for possible solutions. Our goal is to support and inform religious organizations and others in their work to create communities of responsible caretakers of creation with effective public leaders. We believe collective and individual lifestyle changes are important tools in creating spiritual transformation toward a worldview based on nature's systems and spiritual values of cooperation, connection and commitment. http://www.webofcreation.org/lens/care4create.html LENS - Lutheran Earthkeeping Network of the Synods New Book: The Splendor of Creation: a Biblical Ecology by Ellen Bernstein. http://www.webofcreation.org/lens/reflect.html Some thoughts from Larry Rasmussen:
"Our religious vocation for the foreseeable future is Earthkeeping" "Fidelity to God now expresses itself as fidelity to the Earth." "Earth and its distress is the Christian Song of Songs."
National Council of Churches of Christ
--- Eco-Justice Working Group http://www.nccecojustice.org/
Participating Communions /Denominations of the Eco-Justice Working Group
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life
Protecting Creation, Generation to Generation
MISSION STATEMENT: COEJL deepens the Jewish community's commitment to the stewardship of creation and mobilizes the resources of Jewish life and learning to protect the Earth and all its inhabitants.
Evangelical Environmental Network & Creation Care Magazine
EEN is a unique evangelical ministry whose purpose is to "declare the Lordship of Christ over all creation" (Col. 1:15-20). EEN was formed because we recognize many "environmental" problems are fundamentally spiritual problems. EEN's flagship publication, Creation Care magazine, provides you with biblically informed and timely articles on topics ranging from how to protect your loved ones against environmental threats to how you can more fully praise the Creator for the wonder of His creation. You can sign up today for a free issue of Creation Care magazine. Have you seen the Evangelical Declaration on the Care of Creation? The declaration is a carefully considered statement on the biblical call to reduce pollution and environmental degradation and the harm they cause to people and the rest of creation. Since the day we released it, hundreds of evangelical leaders in North America have expressed their agreement with the principles of the declaration by signing on Networking Together to Serve EEN is a network of individuals and organizations, including World Vision, World Relief, InterVarsity, and the International Bible Society (see our Partners page). Our educational campaign Healthy Families, Healthy Environment and its web site, www.healthyfamiliesnow.org, is a service ministry that provides families with practical information to help them protect their loved ones from health concerns in the environment. Contact us at een@creationcare.org or (202) 554-1955.
www.thewitness.org
http://thewitness.org/archive/oct2000/rasmussen.html The Icon 'Round God's Neck Toward sustainable community -- an interview with Larry Rasmussen, by Marianne Arbogast Referring to his research project: "Song of Songs: Christianities as Earth Faiths." "Song of Songs," of course, refers to that earthy little book of the Hebrew Bible where you've got two love stories going on at the same time -- you've got this sensuous love between human beings, and then you've got the sensuous love of these passionate souls for the land and its life. But it's also a reference to a statement by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in an address on the foundations of Christian ethics in 1928. He says: "The earth remains our mother just as God remains our father, and our mother will only lay in the father's arms those who are true to her. Earth and its distress -- this is the Christian's song of songs." So Bonhoeffer is saying that fidelity to God is lived as fidelity to the earth."
http://thewitness.org/archive/oct2000/rasmussen.html The Icon 'Round God's Neck Toward sustainable community -- an interview with Larry Rasmussen, by Marianne Arbogast Referring to his research project: "Song of Songs: Christianities as Earth Faiths."
"Song of Songs," of course, refers to that earthy little book of the Hebrew Bible where you've got two love stories going on at the same time -- you've got this sensuous love between human beings, and then you've got the sensuous love of these passionate souls for the land and its life. But it's also a reference to a statement by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in an address on the foundations of Christian ethics in 1928. He says: "The earth remains our mother just as God remains our father, and our mother will only lay in the father's arms those who are true to her. Earth and its distress -- this is the Christian's song of songs." So Bonhoeffer is saying that fidelity to God is lived as fidelity to the earth."
www.deepecology.com www.context.org
Deep ecology is a new way to think about our relationship to the Earth - and thinking is a prelude to action. A philosophy is, among other things, a system of thought that governs conduct. But in the original Greek it meant "love of wisdom" - and we need all the wisdom we can get to face the implications of global climate change. http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC22/Zimmrman.htm
Envirolink --- On Deep Ecology Wikipedia --- deep ecology www.grist.org
Nuclear power isn't the answer to our global-warming woes, says longtime activist Helen Caldicott.
http://www.planetearth.org/do/Home http://www.grassroots.org/ http://www.worldchanging.com/ http://www.enocean.com
National Geographic Wild World
New Orleans: Everything Has Changed
WorldChanging Essays -- Alex Steffen Now that the tragic chaos in New Orleans is finally being brought under control, the time has come for us to step back and take a good hard look at the situation in which we find ourselves. This tragedy was no "Act of God" -- some utterly unforeseen tragedy about which nothing could be done. This was a completely predictable (indeed, predicted) unnatural disaster. For years, scientists and engineers have been warning of the danger New Orleans was in. For years, nothing was done. We also know that Katrina was just a foretaste of what we should expect in the coming years. We are changing the weather with the pollution we spew from tailpipes and smokestacks, and the bill for that irresponsibility is starting to come due. Katrina was a watershed moment. From here on out, the debate is over. Everything has changed, at least as dramatically as in wake of 9-11. From this moment forward, there is simply no ethical way to debate the need for a new, holistic, worldchanging approach to tackling the planet's biggest problems. As we begin thinking about how to rebuild New Orleans, we need also to recommit ourselves to a new vision for the future of the planet as whole. We now live in a post-Katrina world. It's time for our thinking to catch up. Continue reading "New Orleans: Everything Has Changed" http://www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2004/pbook/pbook.asp Join a global discussion on climate change at openDemocracy.net. OurMedia free storage http://www.ourmedia.org/
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