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