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RESOURCES:

BOOKS

The Austin Environmental Directory: A Guide to Environmental Products, Services and
Organization. Austin, TX, 1995.

Ball, Ian, Margaret Goodall, Clare Palmer and John Reader, eds. The Earth Beneath: A
Critical Guide to Green Theology. London: SPCK, 1992.

The Earth Bible. Sheffield Academic Press, 2001-

Barkey, Michael B. Environmental Stewardship in the Judeo-Christian Tradition: Jewish,
Catholic and Protestant Wisdom on the Environment. Washington, DC: Interfaith
Council for Environmental Stewardship, 2000.

Brueggemann, Walter. The Land: Place as Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith. 2d ed. Overtures to Biblical Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002.

Fowler, Robert Booth. The Greening of Protestant Thought. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1995.

Gebara, Ivone. Longing for Running Water: Ecofeminism and liberation. Minneapolis:
Fortress Press, 1999.

Granberg-Michaelson, Wesley. Redeeming the Creation: the Rio Earth Summit – Challenges
for the Churches. Geneva: World Coucil of Churches, 1992.

Hallman, David G., ed. Ecotheology: Voices from South and North. Maryknoll, N.Y: Orbis,
1994.

Jung, Shannon. We Are Home: A Spirituality of the Environment. New York: Paulist Press,
1993.

Mortensen, Viggo, ed. Concern for Creation: Voices on the Theology of Creation. Tro &
Tanke 1995:5. Uppsala: Svenska kyrkans forskningsrad, 1995.

Rasmussen, Larry L. Earth Community, Earth Ethics. Geneva: WCC Publications, 1996.

Robbins, Paul, comp. and ed. The Austin Environmental Directory: A Guide to Environmental
Products, Services and Organization.

Santmire, H. Paul. Nature Reborn: The Ecological and Cosmic Promise of Christian Theology.
Theology and Science Series. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000.


PERIODICALS

The Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (until 2007, Ecotheology)


WEBSITES

National/international/ecumenical:

ALTERNATIVES for Simple Living – began as offering alternatives to commercial Christmas
http://www.simpleliving.org

Eco-Justice Ministries – has useful list of links
http://www.eco-justice.org

Forum on Religion and Ecology – site for conference related to course textbook
http://environment.harvard.edu/religion/religion/index.html

Greenfaith: Interfaith Partners in Action for the Earth
http://www.greenfaith.org

National Religious Partnership for the Environment – ecumenical organization
http://www.nrpe.org

“Nature as Thou” – articles from the journal Cross Currents on ecotheology
http://www.crosscurrents.org/nature.htm

Network Alliance of Congregations Caring for the Earth – ecumenical organization
http://nacce.org/index.html

Religious Thought about Animals – compiled by Dr. Ron Epstein
http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Religion/religionanimals.html

United Nations Environment Program – sponsoring the “Billion Tree Campaign”
http://www.unep.org

Web of Creation – a Lutheran-oriented site on faith and the environment
http://www.webofcreation.org

Local:

Texas Interfaith Power and Light - ecumenical information site sponsored by Texas Impact

http://txipl.org

City of Austin Water Utility Center for Environmental Research at Hornsby Bend – home of “Dillo Dirt”

http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/water/cer2.htm

Ecology-Action – central Texas recycling effort

http://www.ecology-action.org

The Environmental Directory – information for Austin and Houston

http://environmentaldirectory.info

Environmental Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin – has some interesting “educational mini sites”

http://www.esi.utexas.edu