Global warming

This youtube clip from the Jubilee Centre looks at global warming. Jason Fletcher interviews Bob White.

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Happy Christmas

Good stewards

Usually. the mention of strewardship in most churches provokes the idea of money and tithing. Fortunatley, this website has a larger view of stewardship:

Check out the environment page for some helpful resources.

Serve God and save the planet

The website of Mathew Sleeth - the author of Serve God and Save the Planet and new director of A Rocha USA - it is replete with some excellent suggestions to live more lightly on the earth.

Operation Noah

Serving God and saving the planet

Andy Crouch reviews some new books on Christianity and the environment.

A blog for green Christians

Sander Chan has a blog for green Christians: Joyful Anticipation. It is in Dutch and English.

Is eco-Christianity God's mandate? by David J Hill

Click on the image to access this article.

Assignment writing

The University of Surrey has some useful assignment writing help here.

Andrew Linzey in the Church Times

Andrew Linzey, Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, writes a piece in the Church Times on 'First hit the pets, then the people': 'Christians need to act on the link between animal and human abuse'.

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Books on green living

Byron Borger at Hearts and Minds has listed and described some books on practical green living. They inculde:

• Simpler Living, Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective edited by Michael Schut (Living the Good News)
• Food & Faith: Justice, Joy and Daily Bread edited by Michael Schut (Living the Good News)
• Living the Good Life On God's Good Earth Edited by David Koetje (Faith Alive)
• EarthTrek: Celebrating and Sustaining God's Creation Joanne Moyer (Herald Press)
• Sustainable Living for Dummies Michael Grosvenor (Wiley)
• Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth Mathis Wackernagel & William Rees (New Society Publishers)
• An Earth Careful Way of Life Lionel Basney (Regent College Press)

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GM Organisms lecture

Wednesday, 1st August, 8 pm @ WYSOCS


Dr. Uko Zylstra, Professor of Biology and Academic Dean of Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, will visit WYSOCS on 1st August to give a lecture on:

GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS - creation confounded?

Followed by a discussion at 9 pm on
THE PLACE AND TASK OF A CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY in today's world
Details here.

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How to read a book

David Field has a five page pdf on 'How to read' ... it's a handout for the 'Stating the obvious' module at Oak Hill  College.  It's well worth reading!

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WWJD?

What would Jesus drive? is a discussion initiated by the Evangelical Environmental Network & Creation Care Magazine because transportation is a moral issue.

A response to global warming?

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Tips for becoming green

Gathering| inlight.com has some useful tips and resources for 'becoming green and protecting our environment'.

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Further reading ....

living lightly 24:1

Do check out A Rocha's Living lightly 24:1 website here.  There are lots of ideas and resources for greener living.

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Playgreen: a new wiki

Playgreen is a new wiki that hopes to be the 'biggest book on green living'.  It's well worth checking out.

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How to green your electronics

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

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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Mums for global warming

[HT Icarus redeemed]

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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]

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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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:

• Freemind
• MindMan Personal

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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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

Studying with full-time job ...

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

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Pollution and the Death of Man ...

... by Francis Schaeffer (Hodder and Stoughton, 1970) is one of the earliest books written by an evangelical on a Christian view of the environment. It still repays careful study. David Fairchild has posted a reflection on Schaeffer’s book here.

Positive proof of global warming

Originally from here.

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A green lent?

The evangelical ecologist has some great ideas for a green lent.

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The cost of leaving you computer on

This site has some useful tips on how to calculate the cost of leaving your computer on. It might provide some ideas for the green project. [HT lifehhacker]

Green patches

One of my students has started a blog check it out here.

Global warming

Climate scientists say White House pressured them



Updated Tue. Jan. 30 2007 5:52 PM ET



CTV.ca News Staff



U.S. scientists have been pressured to make their writings on global warming fit with the Bush administration's skepticism on the topic, a U.S. Congressional committee has been told.



Full details here.

[HT David Koyzis]

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Animal ethics

Animal ethics is a blog dedicated to philosophical discussion of the moral status of nonhuman animals. There are a number of links to related websites and a list of books on animal ethics.

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