ecotheology: March 2007

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

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Mums for global warming

[HT Icarus redeemed]

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.

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!