Other Resources

 

Books

 

• Christianity and Ecology Edited by Dieter Hessel and Rosemary Radford Ruether
  This is an comprehensive collection of writing from many major thinkers and writers on Christianity, Ecology and Eco-theology. A great place to get a strong overview.
• Earth Community, Earth Ethics by Larry Rasmussen
  This book by the Lutheran Ethicist Larry Rasmussen provides a great introduction into both some of the roots of the environmental crisis and the response which our faith can bring to this crisis.

If you have any other suggested books please e-mail your suggestions along with a short description.

View a full bibliography.

 

Movies

• An Inconvenient Truth
• Baraka
• Crapshoot: The Gamble With Our Wastes (Available through the ELW. Email: elwinc@elcic.ca)
• Who Killed the Electric Car

 

Web Resources

 

• Environment Canada
• David Suzuki Foundation
• Greenpeace Canada
• Sierra Club Canada
• E, the Environmental Magazine
• Earth Ministry
• The United Church of Australia has a number of resourses available on its Seasons of Creations site.

 

Congregational Greening Resources

• Faith and the Common Good's Greening Sacred Spaces
• KAIROS Energy Work Book for Religious Buildings
• A Guide to Energy Efficiency for Religious Buildings – Developed by the Nova Scotia Department of Energy and Clean Nova Scotia
• Renewing our Relationship with the Earth - from the Anglican Dioceses of Ottawa
• Walking the Climate Change Covenant: Low and No Cost Best Management Practices for Churches
• Training manual for Green Congregations ELCA
• A manual to help congregations think through their environmental impact
• Find Out Your Ecological Footprint
• Use the Pembina Institute’s Greenhouse Gas Calculator to calculate your emissions and how much you can reduce them
• Greening your home
• Tips on Green Living from Greenpeace

 

Energy Efficiency:

• Moving Faithfully Towards Energy Efficiency: A case study for faith communities
• Putting Preaching Into Practice – Energy Efficiency for Religious Buildings
• Energy Workbook for Religious Buildings

Climate Change:

• Who’s Turning Up the Heat?  
• Factsheet on Renewables
• Solidarity with Victims of Climate Change: Reflections on the World Council of Churches' Response to Climate Change
• Summary of the WCC Reflection

 

Educational Resources

• ELCA Educational Resources
• Web of Creation

Organizations working to address Environmental Issues

• KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives
• David Suzuki Foundation
• Sierra Club of Canada
• Greenpeace Canada

What Other Churches are Doing

• Anglican Church of Canada (ACC)
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has two links: Environment and Web of Creation
• World Council of Churches (WCC)

World Council of Churches (WCC)

• WCC Endorsed Framework on Climate Change
• WCC Climate Change and Development
• Churches develop common platform on climate change

 

Inter-Faith Resources

• A Rocha

• Adam v'Adamah
• Buddhist Peace Fellowship
• Canadian Forum on Religion and Ecology

• Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life
• Earth Charter
• Earth Ministry
• Evangelical Environmental Network
• Faith and the Common Good
• Green Rule Handbook
• Multifaith Action Society
• Greening Sacred Spaces 
• Harvard Forum on Religion and Ecology
• Interfaith Climate Change Network
• National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Group
• National Religious Partnership for the Earth
• Religious Witness for the Earth
• Regeneration Project
• Unitarian Universalist Seventh Principle Project

 

Manuals

 

• Greening Congregations Handbook

 

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