Resources

Organizations
People
Books
Films
Links

Organizations Doing Spiritual Earthcare

Quaker Earthcare Witness
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Friends Center (PA) Green Renovation
National Religious Partnership for the Environment
National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Program
Indigenous Environmental Network


New England Friends who can teach about Earthcare topics

Mark Fraser - Veggie diesel installation and operation; Simple solar energy installation and operation

Ruah Swennerfelt - Practical ideas about how to work in your community on energy/sustainability issues

Mary Gilbert - Water issues; The food production system in the US

Suzanne Frechette - Rain gardening, rain collection strategies (a new interest she is developing for her home and Meeting.)

Louis Cox - Organic gardening; Photovoltaics and water heating; Simple living/ecological integrity

Mary Ellen Cohane - The WTO; Exploitive economic structures; Local initiatives for alternative energy; Initiating "Foxfire" programs - that is, teenagers connecting traditional skills from their community.

Andy Burt - Sustainability; Local Foods; Creating Earthcare Teams in Your Meeting; Interfaith Power and Light

Molly Anderson - Agribusiness and Food Power; Food Integrity

Contact the Earthcare Ministry Clerk to get in touch with any of these people


Books

Sanctuary for All Life - Jim Corbett

Church of the Higher Elevations - Peter Anderson

The Splendor of Creation - Ellen Bernstein

The Natural Step for Communities

When Corporations Rule the World - David Korten

50 Things You Can Do to Change the World - Common Cause

In the Absence of the Sacred - Jerry Mander

Left Hand of God - Michael Lerner

God’s Politics & The Soul of Politics - Jim Wallis

Anything by Joanna Macy

1491- Charles Manning

Collapse - Jared Diamond

The Long Emergency - James Howard Kunstler

All Our Relations - Winona LaDuke

Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements - Bill Moyer


Films

Girl in the Café (feature film about a young woman who asks uncomfortable questions of the G-8 leaders at an international development conference)

Ecological Footprint (Matthis Wackernagel)

Oil on Ice

Designing a Sustainable Community (about co-housing)

Sacred Balance (David Suzuki’s series of 4 one-hour pieces)

Kilowatt Ours (Sierra Club on energy efficiency, renewable energy)

Future of Food (against genetic engineering)

True Cost of Food (Sierra Club)

Meatrix I and II, Store Wars

Blue Vinyl (documentary about the life cycle of vinyl)


National news and local resources

Daily Grist
Common Dreams
Eat Local Vermont