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BOOKSPLANETWISE: DARE TO CARE FOR GOD’S WORLDBookless, DaveNottingham, UK: Inter-Varsity Press, 2008. (ISBN 978-1-84474-251-6)

Written by the founder of A Rocha UK, Planetwise is not another book on green issues to make you feel guilty. In these pages you will find solid bibli-cal theology and, most importantly, hope that God can take your small and insignificant efforts and multiply them in his great plan to “reconcile all things unto Himself.”

FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH: A CHRISTIAN VISION FOR CREA-TION CAREBouma-Prediger, StevenGrand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2001. (ISBN 0-8010-2298-3; 2nd edition, April 2010, 978-0-8010-3695-8)

In For the Beauty of the Earth, theolo-gian Steven Bouma-Brediger explores the relationship between Christianity and the natural world in the most thor-ough evangelical treatment available on the theology of creation care. It is perfect for pastors, university students, theologians, and anyone who desires a thoughtful and well-written treatment of God’s good news for creation.

OUR FATHER’S WORLD: MOBILIZING THE CHURCH TO CARE FOR CREATIONBrown, EdwardSouth Hadley, MA: Doorlelight Publica-tions, 2006. (ISBN 0-9778372-2-X)

GREEN REVOLUTION: COMING TOGETHER TO CARE FOR CREATIONLowe, Ben Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 2009. (ISBN 978-0-8308-3624-6)

SERVE GOD SAVE THE PLANET: A CHRISTIAN CALL TO ACTIONSleeth, J. Matthew Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2007. (ISBN 978-0-310-27534-3)

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The above three books are practical guides for how to act and live out our lives individually and communally, with God’s creation in mind.

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UNDER THE BRIGHT WINGSHarris, Peter London UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993; Vancouver, BC: Regent College Publishing, 2000. (ISBN 0-88865-697-1 Canada; 1-57383-188-3 US)

KINGFISHER’S FIRE: A STORY OF HOPE FOR GOD’S EARTHHarris, Peter Oxford, UK: Monarch Books, 2008. (ISBN 978-1-85424-848-0)

A Rocha’s co-founder Peter Harris painstakingly retells in these two books the story of A Rocha, from one field study centre in Portugal to a family of wonderfully varied community conser-vation projects in eighteen countries. Under the Bright Wings covers the first ten years of pioneering and establish-ing the movement, and Kingfisher’s Fire recounts the rapid expansion of the second decade, with many won-derful stories of remarkable people, tears, laughter, and vision.

WEBSITESGLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK http://www.footprintnet-work.org In this informative website you can learn about our environmental/ecological footprint, a major indicator of the environmental impact that results from our daily living. You can also calculate your own environmental footprint through its fun and easy-to-use calculator (http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/)

CARBON FOOTPRINT http://www.carbonfoot-print.com Similar to the above website,this site is particularly dedicated to helping individuals, fami-lies, and small business owners to calculate their carbon footprint and find out ways to reduce it.

NATIONAL GEO-GRAPHIC: THE HIDDEN WATER WE USE http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/embedded-water/

This website shows how much water is consumed in order to produce our daily food items; it is a very useful guide and a reminder for us to consider our choices and usage.

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Inspiring Change. Caring for Creation.

www.goodseedsunday.comwww.arocha.ca

SKEPTICAL SCIENCE http://www.skepticalsci-ence.com/

This informative website is dedicated to explain-ing the science of global warming and climate change, particularly their human causes.

CLIMATE STEWARDS http://www.climatestew-ards.net/cs-int-en/home.html

This website is for an A Rocha initiative to ad-dress the challenges of climate change, carbon emissions, and our ac-tions to mediate it.

FLOURISH MAGAZINE:EIGHT STARTER IDEAS FOR CHURCH-ES WHO CARE ABOUT CREATION http://flourishonline.org/2010/01/eight-start-er-ideas/

This site is a good resource for churches to take steps together in caring for creation.

MOVIES/DOCUMENTARIES

THE STORY OF STUFF http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-stuff/

This 20 minute movie explains the causes of current environmental chal-lenges as well as the resulting social inequality. Millions have watched this short movie, including thousands of school kids, with great impacts. (Also recommended its accompany-ing book: The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities & Our Health – and a Vision for Change, Simon & Schuster Canada, 2011)

HOME http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU

This beautifully made documentary shows us that we are living in excep-tional times, that we need to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources, and stop the catastrophic evolution of the Earth’s climate.

FOOD, INC. (2008)

This sober documentary tells the story of our food: where does it come from and what kind of impacts do the cur-rent production patterns have on earth and human society?

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