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