You can organize and host a Friendship Collaborative workshop on your college campus or at your church. This section willsoon provide presentation and handout materials for hosting your own Friendship Collaborative workshop as well as ideas for follow-up activities. It also lists print and online resources for those interested in the role of faith in solving the environmental crisis.
Facilitator Resources
Your Guide to Organizing a Successful Workshop
Friendship Collaborative Brochure
Websites
Interfaith Power and Light is mobilizing a religious response to global warming in congregations through the promotion of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and conservation.
Creationcareforpastors.com is a website designed to serve pastors who are interested in applying biblical principles of stewardship to the environment. The site includes science news, resources, and a kit to help pastors get started with bringing Creation Care to their congregations.
The Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology provides access to a monthly newsletter as well as many conferences, print and online resources that explore religious worldviews, texts, and ethics in order to better understand the current environmental crisis.
Creation Care study guide for DisneyNature’s “earth” feature film: http://earth.differentdrummer.com/ or http://flourishonline.org/disneynature-earth-discussion-guide/
Suggested Readings
The Creation: an appeal to save life on earth, E.O. Wilson
Saving God’s Green Earth: Rediscovering the Church’s Responsibility to Environmental Stewardship, Tri Robinson and Jason Chatraw (Paperback – April 4, 2006)
The Scientist and the Shepherd: the Emergence of Evangelical Environmentalism: Cal DeWitt in Robert Gottlieb, Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology, Oxford University Press, pp. 568-587.
Stewardship: Responding Dynamically to the Consequences of Human Action in the World: Cal DeWitt in R. J. Berry, Environmental Stewardship: Critical Perspectives – Past and Present. London & New York: T&T Clark International, pp. 145-158.
“Thinking Like a Mountain” and “The Land Ethic” essays in Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
Articles
Too big to Fail: by Carl Safina. Explores similarities between our treatment of the ocean and our treatment of the economy.
For Eco-Evangelicals, Questions about the Future: by John E. Senior and John Winbey. An article from the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media that gives background context to the growth of environmental awareness and advocacy within the American Evangelical landscape.
Faith, Science, Earth (.doc) : an essay by Carl Safina, president and co-founder of Blue Ocean Institute.
“Looking to the Heavens for Help in Conserving Earth’s Wilderness (.doc) : by Patricia M. Paladines.
Information
Climate in Peril (.pdf) : a summary of the climate change information that can be found in the IPCC reports.
