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Resources for "Becoming Green" Workshop

Here are the slides from the Becoming Green workshop at VHUMC. Here are some other resources for those who want to delve a little deeper:

Peak Oil

	Our page on peak oil
	The Oil Drum - hangout for truly well-informed "peakists"
	Energy Bulletin - meticulously organized compendium for all things related to energy depletion and climate change

Overpopulation

	Our page on population
	Dr. Albert Bartlett's classic lecture on exponential growth and overpopulation. You really need to hear this.

Theological Perspectives on Becoming Green

	Web of Creation - Manual on "Becoming a Green Congregation"
	Restoring Eden - very self-promotional - theological perspectives on caring for creation
	Bill Moyers - Is God Green?

Books

	Barbara Kingsolver - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - is there any better writer than Kingsolver? Engaging, entertaining (sometimes hilarious), and informative description of the twisted system in which we live and one family's sane and human response to it
	Jim Kunstler - The Long Emergency - warning: not for the faint of heart
	Thom Hartmann - The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight - begins with a conventional description of peak oil and climate change and then plunges into a totally unexpected journey through the nature of culture
	Richard Heinberg - The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies - his seminal work on peak oil
	Elizabeth Kolbert - Field Notes from a Catastrophe - meticulously researched study of catastrophic climate change and the human contribution to it

Environmental Organizations

	Alabama Environmental Council
	Conservation Alabama
	Conservation International
	Nature Conservancy
	The Nature Conservancy in Alabama
	Sierra Club

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