No single piece of our mental world is to be hermetically sealed off from the rest, and there is not a square inch in the whole world domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is sovereign over all, does not cry: “Mine!” Abraham Kuyper

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

How to green your electronics

Lifehacker points to an excellent post on treehugger: how to green your electronics.

Friday, March 23, 2007

Center for Applied Christian Ethics

The Center for Applied Christian Ethics at Wheaton has a number of useful resources. There are several mp3s from their conference on 'Environment, economics, equity' as well as resources on global warming by Sir John Houghton







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Saturday, March 10, 2007

Living day to day by a gospel of green

The New York Times has an interesting article on evangelical Revd Jim Ball.

It turns out that Jim and Kara Ball spend a lot of time thinking not just about what Jesus would drive, but also about how his people should wash their clothes, light their bathrooms, clean their windows, shop for groceries and furnish their living rooms — the day-to-day elements of what some Christian environmentalists call “creation care.”

[HT Jack Haas]

Thursday, March 08, 2007

The fair tracing project

World Changing brings us a piece on 'The fair tracing project':



A group of computer scientists and economic geographers in the UK put their heads together over the last few months to address a challenge in food systems design. As they see it, the Fair Trade movement faces obstacles to widespread adoption due to an ongoing divide between Northern consumers and Southern producers, as well as a lack of direct, specific information for customers about particular products. Their Fair Tracing Project proposes to enhance the growth of equitable global trade systems by adding digital tracing technology to individual items so that they can be tracked, and their stories recorded, as they move from farm to table.


HT Matthew Bartlett - he describes fair tracing and the next step on from fair trade.



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Saturday, March 03, 2007

mindmaps

I love mind maps and concept maps they are a great first step to writing an assignment. There are some great software that enable mindmapping- I have reviewed Inspiration 8 here for the ATM.

One web-based application for mindmapping is mindomo.

Other free (yes - free) software that can be downloaded is:


Here's a sample they created to help you learn mindmapping by doing. [HT lifehack]

Do feel free to include your mind maps when you send in assignments.

NB contratry to popular belief Tony Buzan didn't invent mindmapping - Porphy of Tyros got there a while before him!

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Friday, March 02, 2007

Christianity and the environment conference mp3s

The recent conference lectures from the MacLaurin Institutute on Christianity and the environment are now available as mp3s:



September 23rd, 2006 - Paul Capel
Paper presentation: Our Consumption of Creation: Actions and Attitudes
September 23rd, 2006 - John Nagle
Paper presentation: The Evangelical Debate Over Global Warming
September 23rd, 2006 - Gregory Poore
Paper presentation: Life Is a Miracle: The Spirituality and Philosophy of Wendell Berry
September 23rd, 2006 - David O’Hara
Paper presenation: The Nature of Nature: C.S. Lewis’ Literary Response to Henri Bergson
September 23rd, 2006 - Matthew Dickerson
Paper presentation: Beyond Romanticism: Applications of Tolkien’s Christian Agrarian Romance
September 23rd, 2006 - Ed Brown
Paper presentation: From Garden to City: Living Theologically in the
September 23rd, 2006 - David Foster
Paper presentation: Green Religion vs. the Greening of Religion
September 23rd, 2006 - Karl Johnson
Paper presentation: Church and the Environment: Common Grace, Saving Grace, and Stewardship of the Natural Environment
September 23rd, 2006 - Susan Emmerich
Closing plenary: A Faith-Based Approach to Social and Environmental Transformation: Three Case Studies From the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
September 23rd, 2006 - Rolf Bouma
Plenary address: Rules for Intelligent Tinkering: Should Nature Be Engineered?
September 23rd, 2006 - Stephen Bouma-Prediger
Plenary address: God the Homemaker and Recycler: A Biblical Case for a Green God
September 22nd, 2006 - Cal DeWitt
Keynote address: Pristine Harmony in the Ecological Economy: Dynamic Stewardship for a Dynamic World

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Studying with full-time job ...






.... lifehack.org has some useful tips here.



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